Gender and Gender Stratification

What is Gender?

Gender: the personal traits and social positions that members of a society attach to being male or female.– Sex: Physical and reproductive

characteristics that distinguish between a male and a female

– GENDER, LIKE RACE, IS A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT

Gender Stratification: the unequal distribution of wealth, power, and privilege between men and women

Gender Roles

Gender Roles: Attitudes and activities that a society links to each sex

Gender Stratification

1893: Colorado becomes the first state to adopt a woman suffrage amendment

1916: Margaret Sanger opens the first birth control clinic

1920: 19th Amendment gives women the right to vote

1960: FDA approves the birth control pill

1967: LBJ expands affirmative action to women

1972: Title IX

1973: Roe v. Wade