Kimmel Chapter 9: Separate and Unequal
Most societies possess a gendered division of labor, but the traditional disparities are a new phenomenon
Women have drastically increased in their labor force participation, but ideologies persist
Workplace is an area of homosocial reproduction: a place
Pierce/Williams/Rudman/Correll
Pierce: Gender Trials: conducted interviews with professionals employed at various levels at two different law firms to gain information about their experiences
Williams: The Glass Escalator: men do not experience discrimination in female professions with
Johnson: The Gender Knot
Patriarchy is male dominated in terms of authority: political, economic, legislative, and educational positions are reserved for men which creates power differenced between men and women, when men occupy superior positions, they are considered to be actua
Hooks: Aint I A Woman
Before, black women were forced to not acknowledge the feminine aspect of their oppression because of the more serious threat of racism that persisted, but as black men advanced in America, they were forced to acknowledge that they were oppressed by their
Collins: Black Feminist Thought
First, Black feminist thought fosters a fundamental paradigmatic shift in how we think about oppression. By embracing a paradigm of race, class, and gender as interlocking systems of oppression, Black feminist thought reconceptualizes the social relations
Browne Misra: Gender in Labor Market
Looked for evidence of intersectionality among three aspects of the labor market, wage inequality, discrimination and stereotyping, immigration and labor, found that they do intersect
women of color are situated differently in labor markets from whites an
Kimmel Chapter 4: Developmental Differences
Tool Set experiment: boys spent the same amount of time with kitchen set and tools set when they were not told which was good and which was bad, no intrinsic differences between girls and boys but rather dependent on interpersonal and social environments
Babcock: Women on Task
Women are less likely to engage in negotiation behavior, seems less attractive on women
Women have an intrinsically low sense of entitlement, makes her less comfortable to ask for changes within household and work environment
Arises from beliefs about ste
Wingfield: Racializing the Glass Elevator
Many men who work in women's professions experience a glass escalator effect that facilitates
their advancement and upward mobility within these fields. Research finds that subtle aspects of the interactions, norms, and expectations in women's professions