Oct, 1998

No. 016 Gender Stratification
Distributed as part of the Red Feather Institute RADICAL PEDAGOGY Series. The Red Feather Institute, 8085 Essex, Weidman, Michigan, 48893.

Cost:  5 to 20 pts. Generic pts.  Payoff:   Variable Quality Points.
Limit: 5 people may 'buy' this assignment.

Price = max 20 pts       SPECIAL FIELD ASSIGNMENT      DUE: Dec 8

 and Women's Double Burden

To get full credit, that is 5 points for each chosen concept, you
need, first, to define it and, then, to use this concept as an
explanatory devise in relation to the subject of your assignment. 

The paper is to be typed and carefully edited.  Creativity and
elegance of style are welcomed!!!

EXPLANATION:  Women have always been working.  Yet, since the late
1960s, white, middle-class women in the United States have been
increasingly joining paid labor force.  In 1980 Ronald Reagan
explained why Nancy Reagan had abandoned her career.  "She didn't
feel she could mange both career and home, and she chose the one
she felt was the most important."  We know that gender is socially
constructed and that it refers not only to the "rules" of behavior
or expectations for women and men (see Reagan's explanation), but
also to power differentials between the genders.  Your assignment,
if you chose to take it, is to explore the impact of gender
ideologies and inequalities on women's lives at the intersection of
paid wages and unpaid household work.  

Organize your discussion by using minimum of 2 and maximum of 4
of the concepts listed below and any sources you find useful to 
ground your discussion.  

1.   Patriarchy

2.   "Fast Tracks"

3.   "Mommy Tracks"

4.   Gender division of labor 

5.   Gender wage gap 

6.   Double burden

7.   Women's Place 

8.   Sex segregation

9.   Masculinity/Femininity

10.  Gender Ideology

11.  Feminist movement

12.  Gender stratification

13.  Gender socialization