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Contents
The Feminist Movement
Employment
Objectification
Gender Roles
Intersectionality
What? and Why?
Introduction
GENDER IS A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT
Both genders are equal “Different but equal” Identical
Differences: Biological Socialised
The Feminist Movement
First wave: De jure/mandated inequalities
Second wave: De facto/non-official inequalities
Third wave: Post-structural Deconstruction of gender
Employment – What?
Pay gap
Vertical segregation Positions of management
Horizontal segregation Types of career
Perception of colleagues
Employment – Why?
Maternity (genuine costs + excuse)
Lack of role models
‘Old boys club’
Similarity bias
Gender roles
Socialised behaviour
Employment - Solutions
Quotas for boards
Incentives to work Tax breaks Subsidies in education State sponsored childcare
Educational focus
Objectification – What?
1. instrumentality: the treatment of a person as a tool for the objectifier's purposes;
2. denial of autonomy: the treatment of a person as lacking in autonomy and self-determination;
3. inertness: the treatment of a person as lacking in agency, and perhaps also in activity;
4. fungibility: the treatment of a person as interchangeable with other objects;5. violability: the treatment of a person as lacking in boundary-integrity;6. ownership: the treatment of a person as something that is owned by another
(can be bought or sold);7. denial of subjectivity: the treatment of a person as something whose
experiences and feelings (if any) need not be taken into account.8. reduction to body: the treatment of a person as identified with their body, or
body parts;9. reduction to appearance: the treatment of a person primarily in terms of how
they look, or how they appear to the senses;10. silencing: the treatment of a person as if they are silent, lacking the capacity to
speak.
Objectification – What?
Pornography
Advertising
Individual interactions
Sexualisation of girls and women
Narratives about women
Objectification – Why?
Harms of pornography: Coercive Violent Deprecating
Rape culture
Paedophilia and abusive relationships
Value of women By men and women
Gender Roles – What?
Personality
Career
Parenting
Component of: Employment problems Objectification Basically everything
Gender Roles – Why?
Self-actualisation
Benefits to society
Family division of labour
Harmful effects of above
Other groups affected by defined genders: Men Transgender people LGBTQIA