On gender: Witt Ch.

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1. Social construction of gender means that gender roles are created by society.
Gender is a social issue in socio cultural courses. Gender deals with social category,
which classifies into masculine and feminine.
2. Feminism, the movement, is the womens liberation, in which women should get
the equal rights. The first wave was in 19 th and very early 20th centuries; the second
wave was in 1960s-1980s; and the third was wave in 1990s-2000s. First, feminism
focused to overturn the womens suffrage. Second, it aimed gender norms and
cultural inequalities; it broadened the dispute of womens role in our society. Third,
it continued to the different strains of feminist movement. For sexism and
institutional discrimination, feminists emphasize the constraints pressed on their
validity of the jobs. Womens jobs constrained the elections in our society. For
example, the main sex typed jobs have the child care, the receptionists, and the
dental hygiene. The glass ceiling, an invisible barrier, imposed on women,
preventing womens chances of promotion within the work conditions.
3. Men have more likely occupations to perform such as doctors, police officers, and
judges, which are higher pay positions. Women traditionally have had the lower pay
occupations such as librarians, clerks, and child care. Men earn more than women
earn in the same occupations. It has the wage gaps in society, and it is not correct.
So people claim having the equal pay for equal work.
4. Women have the second shift, which is that they do things at home such as
caring children and housework after working outside. They have the hard load.
Government and corporations offer the supports for the family leaves to reform it,
which would ease the load on a family.