gender roles
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- Created on: 02-01-16 14:21
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- Gender
- men
- hegemonic masculinity
- males fulfilling traditional masculine character
- breadwinner
- powerful
- males fulfilling traditional masculine character
- Parsons (1955)
- instrumental role within the family based on physical strength and being the breadwinner
- turning away from hegemonic values
- Connel
- range of masculin identities hegemonic and subordinate
- Connel
- social construct
- Wilsom (1975)
- necessary for men to be promiscuous in order to reproduce
- Wilsom (1975)
- Mae & Ghaill
- loss of 'breadwinner' identity for working class men
- Abbott
- big changes in the fashion of young men in recent years adopting the feminine focus on appearence
- hegemonic masculinity
- women
- change in attitudes towards female roles
- Sharpe
- in 1970s girls were focussed on child bearing & marriage, 90s girls prioritised education and career
- Sharpe
- Feminism
- women no longer accept the traditional roles of women in society
- women now have more opportunity and so
- Helen Wilkinson (1997)
- young women are more confident to rebel against gender roles
- sexual equality now viewed as a 'birthright'
- ladette
- Denscombe (2001)
- increase in risk taking behaviour amongst women linked to ladette culture
- Jackson (2006)
- some girls smoked, swore, drank in order to avoid being uncool and unpopular
- defence mechanism
- Denscombe (2001)
- change in attitudes towards female roles
- education
- Frash (2002)
- boys who are successful at school are seen as feminine where as girls who are successful are seen as powerful
- Stanworth
- males receive more attention in school
- Stanworth
- girls have lower expectations of themselves
- Frash (2002)
- workplace
- feminism
- difference in subject choice at school leads to division in work place
- horizontal segregation
- women earn less than men for the same job
- vertical segregation
- 'glass ceiling'
- women can;t progress their career because of maternity breaks
- 'glass ceiling'
- feminism
- men
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