Transcription of CHAPTER 15 GENDER INEQUALITY - SSCC - Home
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CHAPTER 15 GENDER INEQUALITY Final Draft, August 2009 The transformation of GENDER relations since the beginning of the 20th century is one of the most rapid, profound social changes in human history. For the more than 7,000 years of human history since settled agriculture and early states emerged, male domination has characterized the GENDER relations of these societies and their successors. Even at the beginning of the 20th century, men and women were generally viewed as occupying sharply different roles in society: a woman s place was in the home as wife and mother; the man s place was in the public sphere.
differences rooted in sex constitute the raw materials which, through a specific process of social production, get transformed into the social relations we call “gender”. Now, this way of thinking about sex and gender leaves entirely open the very difficult question of what range of variation in gender relations is stably possible.
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