Gender status differences


	Gender status differences

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a24126d6-c1fe-4dd5-abb8-8aceac38b3ff/E19228CF-3869-49FA-8630-F07681E7D850/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.trinity.edu/~mkearl/gender.html" href="http://www.trinity.edu/~mkearl/gender.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.trinity.edu</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.trinity.edu/~mkearl/gender.html">n addition to age, gender is one of the universal
dimensions on which status differences are based. Unlike sex, which is
a biological concept, gender is a <A href="http://aifs32.aifs.org.au/institute/afrc7/francis.html">social
construct</A> specifying the socially and culturally prescribed roles that
men and women are to follow. According to Gerda Lerner in <I>The Creation
of Patriarchy</I>, gender is the "costume, a mask, a straitjacket
in which men and women dance their unequal dance" (p.238). As Alan
Wolfe observed in "The Gender Question" (<I>The New Republic</I>,
June 6:27-34), "of all the ways that one group has systematically
mistreated another, none is more deeply rooted than the way men have subordinated
women. All other discriminations pale by contrast." Lerner argues
that the subordination of women preceded all other subordinations and that
to rid ourselves of all of those other "isms"--racism, classism,
ageism, etc.--it is sexism that must first be eradicated.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.trinity.edu/~mkearl/gender.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.trinity.edu/img/705CDF38-7628-4244-80A1-ECC5EF38F90D" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.trinity.edu/~mkearl/gender.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.trinity.edu/img/9BA62A06-3283-48E3-87E3-4907875BD3FA" alt="" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E19228CF-3869-49FA-8630-F07681E7D850/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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