12.2 Gender and Gender Inequality

By the end of this section, you should be able to:

  • Explain the influence of socialization on gender roles in the United States
  • Explain the stratification of gender in major American institutions
  • Provide examples of gender inequality in the United States
  • Describe the rise of feminism in the United States
  • Describe gender from the view of each sociological perspective
Woman in 1950s or 1960s dress putting coffee on buffet in a formally set family dining room.
Figure 12.8 Traditional images of U.S. gender roles reinforce the idea that women should be subordinate to men. (Credit: Sport Suburban/flickr)
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The content of this course has been taken from the free Sociology textbook by Openstax