Sociology › Section L · Gender, sex, and sexuality › Topic L.2
Gender and gender inequality
Women in the United States now earn more college degrees than men, yet they still earn less, hold fewer top jobs and do more unpaid work at home. This topic traces how gender is taught, how it becomes inequality, and how movements and theories have tried to explain and change it.
In this topic
- From difference to inequality
- Agents of gender socialisation
- The pay gap
- Explaining the gap
- The glass ceiling and political power
- The second shift
- Feminism and change
- Theoretical perspectives on gender
- Worked example: reading a pay gap
- Worked example: the greedy job
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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