8 Everyday Gender and Social Change Free Online FlashCards

How is gender more than a personal trait?

Gender is both a pattern of social expectations and something people learn, perform, interpret, and sometimes challenge in daily life.

What does “doing gender” mean?

“Doing gender” is the ongoing process in which people’s actions are judged against expectations associated with the gender category others assign to them.

Why is doing gender not simply a free choice?

Gender is not performed under equal conditions: social approval, pressure, and sanctions shape how people can act.

How do sex characteristics, gender identity, and gender expression differ?

Sex characteristics concern bodily traits; gender identity concerns a person’s sense of gender; gender expression concerns how gender is expressed. They are related but distinct.

What does gender performativity explain?

Performativity explains how repeated acts and conventions make gender seem stable and natural. Repetition can also be altered to expose or challenge norms.

What makes an organization gendered?

Gendered organizations embed gender assumptions in features such as job descriptions, promotion systems, schedules, and ideas about the ideal worker.

What are some effects of unequal unpaid care work?

Unequal unpaid care work can affect people’s paid employment, earnings, and time for rest or public participation.

What does gender shape in cultural representation?

Representation concerns who appears in media, political leadership, and cultural memory, which roles they occupy, and whose experiences are treated as typical.

What do socialization approaches explain, and what can they overlook?

Socialization and role approaches examine how families, peers, schools, and media teach expectations, but may understate power and resistance.

What do structural and institutional approaches examine?

Structural and institutional approaches examine how laws, workplaces, economies, and family arrangements organize access to resources and authority.

What questions do feminist, power-centered approaches ask?

They ask who benefits from existing arrangements and how gender connects with other forms of inequality.

What do queer and performativity approaches investigate?

They examine how norms make some identities seem ordinary and others unacceptable, and how repeated conventions can be disrupted.