I find the concept of feminization—how the presence or predominance of women in certain roles or occupations affect those roles and occupations, their legitimacy, compensation, etc.—to be fascinating and directly affect areas I work in (nonprofits, service, social media). Below is the abstract from a paper presented to the American Sociological Association by Paula England, [...]
Some new commentary on the evolving nature of women’s work, as a follow-up to comments on gender-driven compensation in social work: .…as the social media world becomes more and more female-driven (after all, social media power users tend to be female) will it become “demoted” in the tech industry, seen as a “soft” profession with lower [...]
Since I just posted about how social roles affect social values, here’s a scenario we recently had in my Critical Thinking class. A man and his son are involved in a car crash. The father dies on the scene and the son is rushed to hospital. On arrival the surgeon on duty says “I can’t [...]
