Gender Flashcards
(45 cards)
Refers to the policies, instruments, programs, services, and actions that address the disadvantages position of women in society
Gender equity
4 interrelated factors that development investments need to address to advance gender equality.
- Access to economic resources
- Participation and leadership in decision making
- Respect for human rights of women
- Increased capacity to tackle gender inequalities
Means that women and men have more or less the same opportunities given them to realize their individual potentials
Gender equality
Biases against people on the basis of gender
Sexism
According to them, contemporary sexism is complicated
Peter Glick and Susan Fiske
An scale that involves the argument that sexism is based on deep ambivalence toward women rather than on a uniform dislike of women.
Ambivalent Sexism Inventory
Blatant kind of sexism based on the idea that women should be subservient to men and know their place.
Hostile sexism
Subtler kind of sexism that argues for women’s special niceness and purity
Benevolent sexism
A bias against people based on their race or ethnic groups
Racism
It is a bias that is based on social class
Classism
Refers to a bias against people with disabilities
Ableism
This refers to a bias against anyobe who is not exclusively heterosexual
Heterosexism
Bias based on chronological age
Ageism
Is the principle that values women’s experience and ideas.
Feminism
She emphasized some points in feminism
Margaret Matlin
Men and women can be feminists
Feminism includes men
Some may qualify as feminists even they may be reluctant to call themselves feminists.
Feminism is not men antagonism
It encompasses a variety of ideas and perspectives, not just one feminist viewpoint
Feminism is not just one viewpoint
Emphasizes the goal of gender equality, that is giving women and men the same rights and opportunities.
Liberal feminism
Emphasizes the positive qualities that are presumed to be stronger in women and men — such as nurturing and caretaking. Focuses on gender differences that values women
Cultural feminism
Claims that the basic cause of women’s oppression lies deep in the entire sex and gender system
Radical Feminism
It points out that the three other approaches of feminism overemphasize gender. Feminism must pay attention to other human dimensions.
Women-of-color feminism
Undervaluation or even non valuation of women’s work.
I.e Housework and child rearing are viewed as minor and natural functions
Economic marginalization
Women are generally expected to play supportive roles to men and accept a subordinate status
Political subordination