Comments on: Socialization and Gendered Job Segregation

By: Separate And Unequal : Ms Magazine Blog

Separate And Unequal : Ms Magazine Blog — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 12:01:37 +0000

[...] sexism, a sexism against feminine-coded things instead of against women, but sexism nonetheless… for example.) Job segregation, then, contributes to the pay gap between men and [...]

By: Ida

Ida — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 13:05:26 +0000

Look, it really is! I thought it kind of looked like a packaging for birth-control pills, at least the pink one, but that was before I concentrated hard enough to make out the cuff behind the manometer… Thanks!

By: Ida

Ida — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 13:00:20 +0000

A decapitated kid. How cute.

By: Goodlum

Goodlum — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 05:32:38 +0000

So you and a lot of women must also find the term “mankind” to be very offensive.
Perhaps we should work toward the general acceptance of some form of “man/womankind” (or woman/mankind so women are first) or “theykind”.

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 08:00:00 +0000

…huh. I hadn’t really considered this as a substitution before. Interesting. (Thanks, by the way!)

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 07:58:18 +0000

Do you get offended when “she” is used? Don’t be offended by either.

I was simply pointing out that “he” is more likely to be used than “she”, simply because of historical reasons. This is quickly changing, though; I see “she” appearing more and more.

By: Uly

Uly — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 04:10:31 +0000

Thank you. Now we’ll never have need to say that word again.

Additionally, that bumpy part under your nose is your philtrum.

By: Uly

Uly — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 04:07:56 +0000

If you object to singular they, it's easy enough to simply recast your sentence: Doctors don't do the same job as nurses, even if they use the same tools.

By: Dr. Robyn Silverman

Dr. Robyn Silverman — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 01:19:07 +0000

This kind of thing always frustrates me. In my doctoral program for child development, one of the things I studied and wrote about was looking at media and what it conveyed about gender. One of the things I was particularly interested in was how “active” and “passive” the different genders were in the advertisements. If you watch again, the girl barely does anything at all– she nods her head, smiles and barely speaks. The messages are very clear as if subtitles occupy the bottom of the screen. With commercials like this, it’s no wonder that toys tend to have segregating messaging as well. Ugh. It’s up to us as parents, leaders, and educators to underscore media literacy here– so that even when these messages are everywhere, our kids can read them and know what’s REALLY going on.

By: links for 2010-06-13 « Embololalia

links for 2010-06-13 « Embololalia — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 18:04:02 +0000

[...] Socialization and Gendered Job Segregation » Sociological Images Okay, so the jobs are gendered. But more than that, notice that the sets contain essentially the same toys: a stethescope, pill bottle, syringe, thermometer, mirror, hot water bottle, clipboard, blood pressure thingy, and whatever that is in the bottom right corner. [...]

By: Yahee

Yahee — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 17:52:21 +0000

I notice things that gender specify with color too. I was trying to find a cooking / dishes / baking set for my son to use with his new kitchen (the kitchen is colored purple and pink by the way… but I bought it anyway). All I could find were princess this, and fairy that. I don’t care about colors… obviously, I bought the pink and purple kitchen. However, my son doesn’t want princesses, fairies and flowers on all his dishes!!! Am I supposed to believe that only girls play in the kitchen and that only girls will cook meals? My son adores baking with me and I hope to raise him to become a self sufficient person who can cook, clean, do laundry etc. I don’t need there to be a spiderman dish set (although my son would probably freak for it). But a neutral set would be nice. I will tell you that we did find nice sets available at Ikea. They look like the dishes adults use and he loves them.

By: Kerry Eady

Kerry Eady — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 17:46:44 +0000

Consumer culture is so hyper accelerated now it demands more and more segregation and stereotyping like this though. How else will the toy manufacturers and toy stores convince parents they need to buy two kits, one for their daughter and one for their son.

By: melphisto

melphisto — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:32:09 +0000

in all fairness, the scissors *are* pink.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:11:07 +0000

And a lot of women, myself included, find the use of “he” as a gender-neutral pronoun very offensive.

By: A Cop Car for you Little PoliceMAN » Sociological Images

A Cop Car for you Little PoliceMAN » Sociological Images — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:31:52 +0000

[...] also our post in which the exact same toy is marketed to boys as a doctor’s kit and to girls as a nurse’s kit. var object = SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title:'A Cop Car for you Little PoliceMAN', url: [...]