SOSC 200Y Gender and Society Lecture 1: Women in social sciences.

Slides:



Advertisements
Similar presentations
The Situation of Women in China Johannes Jütting and Theodora Xenogiani 27 November 2007 Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Advertisements

This multimedia product and its contents are protected under copyright law. The following are prohibited by law: any public performance or display, including.
What is Sociology? Family Sociology
SOSC 200Y Gender and Society Lecture 4: Formation of Gender Identity.
GENDER EMPOWERMENT MEASUREMENT (GEM) GEM captures gender inequality in 3 key areas: 1.Political participation and decision making power: women’s and men’s.
SOSC 200Y Gender and Society Lecture 20: Patriarchy Capitalism and the State.
SOSC 103D Social Inequality in HK Lecture 22: Subjective side of social inequality.
SOSC 200Y Gender and Society Lecture 3: Social Construction of Gender.
SOSC 103D Social Inequality in HK Lecture 11: Subjective Side of Social Inequality.
Sociology, Tenth Edition Gender Stratification. Sociology, Tenth Edition Gender and Inequality Gender refers to personal traits and social positions that.
SOSC 200Y Gender and Society Lecture 14: Heterosexism as violence.
SOSC 200Y Gender and Society Lecture 23: Feminist’s Challenge.
SOSC 103D Social Inequality in HK
SOSC 200Y Gender and Society Lecture 6: Images of Gender.
SOSC 103D Social Inequality in HK Lecture 1: Understand HK ’ s Situation.
SOSC 103D Social Inequality in HK
SOSC 200Y Gender and Society Lecture 21: Women and the State.
Gender: what is it? Chris Coulter, PhD
SOSC 200Y Gender and Society Lecture 19: Sexual Division and Capitalist Patriarchy.
SSE – 110 Introduction to Social Welfare and Social Work Chapter 13 Sexism & Achieving Equality.
SOSC 103D Social Inequality in HK Lecture 1: Hong Kong – Development and inequality.
Sociology: A Down-to-Earth Approach 7/e
SOSC 200Y Gender and Society Lecture 17: Conflicting roles - working mother.
An Interactive Workshop on Gender Sponsored by PEARL2 and Isis International – Manila Understanding Gender.
Feminist Perspective Feminism first emerged as a critique of traditional sociological theory, saying that sociology didn’t acknowledge the experiences.
Gender Inequality. Median Earnings by Sex (1999) All year-round, full-time workers –Men: $38,000 (40,798 in 2004) –Women: $28,000 (31, 223 in 2004) Physicians.
TRUE or FALSE 1. The labor force participation rate of women has risen from 37.6% in 1960 to 60.6% in The hourly earnings of full-time working.
WOMEN’S DISEMPOWERMENT THROUGH THE LENS OF POVERTY Understanding Factors of the “Feminization of Poverty” Phenomenon Nancy Agapito 1.
Gender Equality in Sweden Carolina Wennerholm for ITP Human Rights towards Gender Equality, Mena, September 2011 Copyright GenderFocus.
Gender Inequalities What is meant by the term the ‘glass ceiling’. Gender inequalities in earnings and in the gender distribution of ‘top jobs’. How does.
Sex and Gender Chapter 8.
Gender equality at home and work:
To Accompany “Economics: Private and Public Choice 13th ed.” James Gwartney, Richard Stroup, Russell Sobel, & David Macpherson Slides authored and animated.
Chapter 10 Gender and Age. Issues of Sex and Gender Sex – Biological Characteristics Female and Male Primary and Secondary Sexual Characteristics Gender.
Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) The African Gender and Development Index.
Copyright © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Chapter 10 Sex, Gender, and Culture Gender Concepts Physique and Physiology Gender Roles.
Chapter 10 Sex, Gender and Sexuality. Chapter Outline  Sexual Differentiation  Perspectives on Gender Inequality  Gender as Social Construction and.
SOSC 200Y Gender and Society
Inequalities of Gender
EEe E EEvery individual has certain rights to live equally and freely Budapest Meeting TtTevfik İleri Anadolu Lisesi Rize / Turkey GENDER Equality in Turkey.
Chapter 10, Gender Defining Sex and Gender The Social Construction of Gender Gender Stratification Theories of Gender Gender in Global Perspective Gender.
Cultural Anthropology
Chapter 10, Sex and Gender Sexual Differentiation Perspectives on Gender Equality Gender in the United States.
Chapter 10 Gender. Issues of Sex and Gender Sex – Biological Characteristics Female and Male Primary and Secondary Sexual Characteristics Gender - Social.
Using Gender Statistics: a toolkit for training data users Overview Jessica Gardner UNECE Consultant
Gender Analysis of Census Data In EGYPT By Tamy Abdel Hady The Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics CAPMAS ov.eg.
Introduction to Sociology
Women at Work Understanding the Wage Gap and its Impact on Montana’s Workforce Barbara Wagner Chief Economist Economic Update Series July 30, 2015.
Gender, Age, and Health Original Content Copyright © Holt McDougal. Additions and changes to the original content are the responsibility of the instructor.
Gender Stratification
Chapter 8 Gender and Sexuality. © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Gender Identity & Sexual Orientation Gender Versus Sex? –Transgendered.
Chapter 11. * Most individuals learn gender identity through socialization. * Gender is usually reinforced at birth- blue for boys and pink for girls.
Ch. 8- Sex and Gender What is the difference? What is the difference? Sex- biological, primary and secondary sex characteristics Sex- biological, primary.
Chapter 9 Section 3 Where Does Level of Development Vary by Gender?
Introduction to Sociology, 5/e © 2012 BVT Publishing.
Irene Rosales Policy and campaigns officer Challenges in ensuring gender equality in education Equinet Seminar “Gender Equality in Education” Prague, 19.
Some Facts on the topic of Gender Equality in Germany Vice-Rector for Structure and Development Dresden, 20. November 2015.
Lesson 18 - Gender Inequalities (2) Learning Intentions (Pupils should be able to): Explain what is meant by the term the ‘glass ceiling’. Provide evidence.
WOMEN IN MANAGEMENT SEMINAR 30 August 2012, PMB Makhosazana Nxumalo.
Gender, Diversity and Climate Change
Earnings Differences Between Men and Women
Gender inequality / Sexism
Chapter 10 Lecture Supplement: Women as World’s Largest Minority
Chapter 13 Gender.
Gender Stratification
Gender and social diversity in nature conservation
The Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics CAPMAS
Gender in the 21st Century
POLICIES ORIENTED TO EQUALITY BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN IN BULGARIA
POLICIES ORIENTED TO EQUALITY BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN IN BULGARIA
Presentation transcript:

SOSC 200Y Gender and Society Lecture 1: Women in social sciences

L1: Women in Hong Kong Political power, 2004 –Members of the Executive Council (4/21) –Members of the Legislative Council (11/60) –Members of the District Councils (18%) –Civil servants (33.6%) Gender empowerment measure Female legislators, senior officials and managers (26%) Female professional and technical workers (39%)

L1: Women in Hong Kong Economic and employment status –Differences in income –In 2003, estimated earned income For female: US$ 19,593; For male: US$ 35,037 –Ratio: 0.56

L1: Women in Hong Kong (cont’)

L1: Women in Hong Kong (cont’) Different role at home

L1: Women in Hong Kong (cont’) Other aspects of gender relations –Degree of violence against women Attitudes towards this violence Visible and invisible threat –Interactions between men and women Dating and marriage Sexuality

L1: Women’s role in sociology Sociological studies The invisibility of women –Issues –Method –Theory Explaining the gap: Malestream sociology –Power and the logic of academic disciplines –Origin of sociology: the public/ private split

L1: Suggested Readings: Andersen, Margaret L. (2003) Thinking About Women: Sociological Perspectives on Sex and Gender (6/e). Boston: Allyn & Bacon, ch.1