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Global Gender Issues - Essay

Global Gender Issues

Gender stereotypes can be seen in many realms of capitalist society-from the economy to wartime policies to domestic arrangements. Gender dichotomies can be seen in the dichotomy between paid and unpaid work; production vs reproduction; skilled vs unskilled labor. All the first in these pairs are the realm of the masculine, and the second the realm of the feminine. We think of men's work as labor for profit, and women's work as labor for love. We think of a woman's wages as "pin money" and a man's as "breadwinner."
This division was not always so obvious, and the division of labor into public (male) and private (female) spheres was not as rigid. Anthropological studies of Native ...

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feel this has actually contributed to world hunger. When western colonizers came, they turned African men into farmers, because it was viewed as men's work. Even when the green revolution came, women were moved off the land so they could fulfill the western "gender" ideal: time to care for their husbands and children. But this resulted in the loss of crops that women had cultivated to feed their families.
The growth of European states and capitalism institutionalized gender roles, as Peterson and Runyan point out in "Global Gender Issues." Traits, attributes and societal positions have been projected onto women's and men's bodies. In former Soviet-bloc countries, Western governments and lending agencies have pressured socialist economies to turn capitalist. "Working class women in these countries are disproportionately bearing the cots of this as they face growing unemployment and the loss of benefits and social protection." (p. 137). "At a time when 85% of the world's ...

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Added: 10/11/2015 06:04:11 AM
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