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Sex - a person's biological maleness or femaleness as determined by chromosomes and sex organs
Gender - the socially constructed roles, behaviors, activities, and attributes that a given society
considers appropriate for girls/women & boys/men
Feminism - a variety of theories and approaches and all committed to understanding and changing the
structures that keep women lower in status and power
K4Q: Gender Inequality - women and girls' disadvantage relative to men and boys
K4Q: Gender Norms - societal expectations and rules that vary based on gender
K4Q: Gender Roles - divisions of labor and social roles according to gender
K4Q: Gender Socialization - the processes by which gendered societal beliefs and expectations are
instilled in us
Gender Stereotypes - beliefs about how females and males are different
Global Feminism - a feminism recognizing women's connectedness but emphasizing diverse meanings of
feminism and feminist activism based on culture, region, and other intersectional variables
Global Women's Studies - the interdisciplinary, cross-cultural study of women's issues and gender
equality that emphasizes how intersectionality and context impact women's issues and activism
Intersectionality - the interplay of different social categories; gender is intersectional because the way it
is enacted and experienced depends on the way it interacts with other social categories and identities
, Materialist Explanations - suggest that family and social institutions arising from material forces such as
the ownership f private property led to and maintain gender inequality
K4Q: Multiculturalism - a perspective that emphasizes helping people to understand, accept and value
the cultural differences among groups, with the ultimate goal of reaping the benefits of diversity
Patriarchy/al - when gender inequality is embedded in economic, political, cultural, and legal structures;
a society in which men have greater power and status is patriarchal
Private Sphere - the domestic domain of home
Public Sphere - the public domain outside of the home
Social Roles Theory -
K4Q: Sociocultural Explanations/Constructivist - explanations emphasizing that gendered power
relations are socially constructed and maintained
Transnational Feminism - Feminism that cut across cultures and unite women's struggles from many
parts of the world
Ethnocentric - when a person thinks his or her culture's way is the right and only way and is quick to
judge and reflect the way other cultures do things
K4Q: Empowerment - the process by which women are able to advocate for the rights and have
decision-making power in their public and private lives
Cultural Relativism - the notion that right and wrong are matters of culture and that there is no universal
right or wrong
Contextualize - When analyzing something, to consider how it is situated within multiple contexts
(cultural, social, political, historical, economic)
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