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Sexual scripts

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Descriptions of behaviors that reflect beliefs about what is “normal” sexual behavior in a given culture.

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Compulsory Heterosexuality

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normal and romantic sexual behaviors are heterosexual

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Performative Bisexuality

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Non-heterosexual script in which heterosexual women kiss and engage in sexual activities with other women for the enjoyment of men watching them.

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Sexual Double Standard

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Women are judged more harshly than men for engaging in comparable sexual behaviors.

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Slut Shaming

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When people are criticized for their actual or presumed engagement in sexual behaviors.

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Affirmative Consent

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When there is mutual, explicit, voluntary, active consent given before a sexual act.

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Casual Sex

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Men generally engage in this more than women do, LQBTQ are more likely to accept this offer (friends with benefits)

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Hookups

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More common than casual sex, women more likely to because of hope of romantic relationship.

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Masturbation

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stimulating oneself, usually through touching one’s genitals, to result in sexual pleasure.

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Cognitive Distraction

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When women take a third person perspective on their bodies (self-objectification) ex: women worrying about if partner notices new “fat roll”

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Spectatoring

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out-of-body experience in which a women’s focus is on other things other than the sexual encounter.

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Sexualization

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When sexuality is imposed on others, when people are regarded as sex objects, when their value is reduced to their sexual appeal or behavior. Women’s worth is connected to their sexual body parts and other people’s pleasure. It is sexism, not sex!

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Self-sexualization

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Women portray themselves in sexual ways. Leads to positive attention or feedback.

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Social Support

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A feeling of being cared for and having support and assistance from people around us.

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Instrumental Social Support

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Others providing tangible assistance in terms of money, goods, or services.

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Emotional Social Support

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When we feel nurtured and/or care for by others.

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Active Constructive Responding

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A way to respond when someone shares good news. Involves reacting enthusiastcially and asking follow up questions.

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Co-Rumination

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Emotional support can cross over into this. Extensively discussing problems and dwelling on negatives in conversation with another person.

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Dating Scripts

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The lessons that we absorb from popular culture influence our beliefs about what should happen when people date.

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Compulsory Monogamy

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The expectation that everyone, but especially women, should strive to find one partner (to marry) who can exclusively fulfill all desires, wants, and needs.

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Consensually non-monogamous relationships

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One type is polygamy

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Polygamy

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One husband having many wives. Tied to religious belief or cultural practices.

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Polyamorous Relationships

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Are NOT tied to religious beliefs or to specific gender identities.

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Wedding Industrial Complex

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Multi-billion dollar industry, emphasizing extravagant celebrations and material goods.

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Principle of Least Interest
The person who wants a relationship less has greater power in that relationship. This is why people don't text back immediately after a date.
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Routine Labor
Household tasks that must be done frequently on regular schedule.Also called low control labor
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Low Control Labor
Tasks in which the person doing them has little control over where and when they're done.
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Intermittent Labor
Tasks done occasionally, doesn't need to be done right away.
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Second Shift
The phenomenon of women coming home from their jobs and doing another round of work.
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Mental Load
"Invisible" work, can be an additional burden that women carry.
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Emotion Work
Tasks that make other people feel loved and cared for. (sending bday cards)
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Relative Resources Theory
The person that brings more resources to the relationship gets to use those resources in order to avoid doing chores.
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Social Exchange
One person provides the bulk of the financial resources and the other does the bulk of the domestic labor.
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Time Availability
The person with the most available time should do a larger proportion of house work.
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Gender Deviance Neutralization
Wives who out-earn their husbands may engage in this. Because they're acting in a way that's gender atypical in one domain, they overcompensate by acting in a stereotypically feminine way in another domain.
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Reproductive Justice Movement
Acknowledges that options around reproduction are often limited by the way society is structured.
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Stratified Reproduction
Unequal situation in which those with more resources based on factors such as class, race, ethnicity, or migration status have greater autonomy and choice with regard to their ability to have and raise children.
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Voluntary Childlessness
When people opt to not have children.
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Motherhood Mandate
Strong pressures, especially on women, to have children.
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Motherhood Mystique
A cultural and societal belief system that idealizes motherhood, portraying it as the ultimate fulfillment of a woman’s life and identity. It perpetuates unrealistic expectations about what it means to be a "good mother," often disregarding the complexities and challenges of parenting.
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Post-Abortion Syndrome
A term sometimes used to describe a range of psychological symptoms purportedly experienced by people after having an abortion. It is characterized by claims of guilt, depression, anxiety, and regret linked to the abortion experience.
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Maternal Gatekeeping
The process of mother limiting how involved fathers are allowed to be in caring for children.
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Intensive Parenting
The idea that parents, especially mothers, are expected to be fully immersed in the parenting experience, seek expert advice on parenting.
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Attachment Parenting
A style of parenting in which parents focus on meeting the child's needs on the child's schedule.
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Mother Blaming
The idea that mothers should be held responsible for the actions, health, behavior, and well-being of their children.
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Feminist Mothering
Mother daughter participating in women's March.
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Motherhood Wage Penalty
The tendency for mothers to earn less than non-mothers do.
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Horizontal Occupational Gender Segregation
The tendency for people to cluster in different professions based on their gender identity.
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Vertical Occupational Gender Segregation
The tendency for men to hold positions with higher status, authority, and pay than women.
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Goal Congruity Perspective
The idea that people want to engage in activities that meet their goals.
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Glass Ceiling
An invisible barrier that keeps many women from rising to the highest levels of leadership.
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Comparable Worth
The idea that jobs requiring the same education and skill and giving similar value should pay the same wage.
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Labyrinth
A metaphor for the challenges women face in the workforce that reflects the need to navigate a complex maze in order to find advancement while being stymied by twists, turns, and obstacles.
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Glass Escalator
The tendency for men to be promoted to leadership positions very rapidly when they work in tradiitonally female-dominated fields.
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Sticky Floor
The tendency for women to remain at the bottom of an organizational hierarchy in jobs that provide limited opportunities for advancement.
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Glass Cliff
The tendency for women to be promoted to leadership positions when a company is in a precarious position or at risk of failure.
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Double Bind
Women are evaluated negatively if they attempt to negotiate a higher salary but are paid less if they don't.

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