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- Title: Sex and Advantage
- Author : Janet Saltzman Chafetz
- Release Date : January 01, 1984
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 4066 KB
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It may be a truism to say that in most societies all women are not equal. Yet it is equally true that in few, if any, societies are women as a category equal to men considered categorically. And it is certainly the case that the degree to which women are disadvantaged varies extensively across time and space, but that nowhere, apparently, are women superior to men in overall status. This book is an effort to develop a general theoretical understanding of why societies differ in the degree of inequality between the sexes, and an insight into why women have apparently never been more advantaged in their access to scarce and valued societal resources.
Since 1973, when Acker decried the lack of attention paid to sex as a stratification variable, sex has been added to wealth, occupational prestige, power, race and ethnicity as a general dimension of stratification. Some have defined sex in terms of castes (Andreas 1971; Chafetz 1978: 114—15), others as minority-majority groups (Dworkin 1976; Hacker 1951; Myrdal 1944), a few even in terms of classes (Laws 1975). Regardless of which rubric is employed, most social scientists today agree that it is a pertinent variable in understanding social inequality. While the methodology necessary to study some aspects of stratification and social mobility in terms of sex may be crude or altogether lacking, recognition is now widespread that an individual’s access to the scarce and valued resources of her/his society is affected as much, if not more, by sex as by the more traditional stratification variables considered by sociologists.
On the individual level, one’s access to the scarce and valued resources of society (i.e., one’s position in the stratification hierarchy) is the result of her/his profile on a variety of possible dimensions: wealth, education, race/ethnicity, religion, age, family status, occupational status, etc. Societies differ extensively on the number and kinds of these dimensions, but in almost all human societies sex constitutes one such dimension, and typically one of the more important ones. Yet extensive variability does exist in the degree to which sex influences access, i.e., the extent to which males and females, on the basis of sex alone, are unequal. In this book, the other dimensions that provide individual opportunity levels will be implicitly held constant while the dimension of sex is examined.
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