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Understanding Male Privilege: Gender Inequity in Work and Family Dynamics

This chapter explores the concept of male privilege as an invisible advantage in professional and domestic settings. It examines the ideological separation of gender roles, where men are expected to work in public and women in the private sphere. Key topics include the impact of institutional discrimination, the wage gap, and historical legislation like the Equal Pay Act and Civil Rights Act. It further addresses the challenges dual-earner households face, unpaid domestic labor, and coping strategies for balancing work and family responsibilities, highlighting the continued inequities that persist today.

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Understanding Male Privilege: Gender Inequity in Work and Family Dynamics

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  1. Work and Family Chapter 9

  2. Male privilege • Invisible advantage bestowed upon men

  3. Work and family • Agriculture • Industrialization

  4. Ideology of separate spheres • Women’s place should be in the home (private) and men’s place should be in the workplace (public) • Instrumentality • Expressiveness

  5. Gender in the Workplace • Institutional discrimination • Wage gap • 1963 – Equal Pay Act • 1964 – Civil Rights Act • Mommy tax • Occupational segregation

  6. Dual-Earner Households • Data • Demands

  7. FMLA • Family Medial Leave Act of 1993

  8. Coping strategies • Dual • Time • shifts • Single • 2nd jobs • networks

  9. Domestic Division of Labor • Unpaid • Feeding • Housework • Kin work • Consumption work

  10. Second shift • Women still doing the lion’s share of child and home care responsibilities

  11. Perceptions of inequity • Gender ideology and domestic work • Social exchange and household inequity

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