Framed by Gender

How Gender Inequality Persists in the Modern World

• Author(s): Cecilia L. Ridgeway,
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Pages: 233
• ISBN_10: 0199755779
  ISBN_13: 9780199755776
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Business & Economics / Organizational Behavior , Law / Gender & the Law , Psychology / Human Sexuality , Psychology / Social Psychology , Social Science / Sociology / General , Social Science / Women's Studies , Social Science / Discrimination , Social Science / Gender Studies ,

Description:... In an advanced industrial society like the contemporary U. S., where an array of legal, political, institutional, and economic processes work against gender inequality, how does this inequality persist? Are there general social processes through which gender as a principle of social inequality manages to rewrite itself into new forms of social and economic organization? Framed by Gender claims there are, highlighting a powerful contemporary persistence in people's everyday use of gender as a primary cultural tool for organizing social relations with others. Cecilia L. Ridgeway asserts that widely shared cultural beliefs about gender act as a "common knowledge" frame that people use to make sense of one another in order to coordinate their interaction. The use of gender as an initial framing device spreads gendered meanings, including assumptionsabout inequality embedded in those meanings, beyond contexts associated with sex and reproduction to all spheres of social life that are carried out through social relationships.