Gender Bias in Women

Autor/in	Bynum, Gregory Lewis
Titel	Gender Bias in Women
Quelle	In: Forum on Public Policy Online, 2014 (2014) 2, (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1556-763X
Schlagwörter	Gender Bias; Females; Child Care; Resistance (Psychology); Philosophy; Behavior; Mothers; Politics; Status + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Geschlechterstereotyp; Weibliches Geschlecht; Kinderfürsorge; Kinderbetreuung; Resistenz; Philosophie; Mother; Mutter; Politik
Abstract	The philosophical anthropologist Dorothy Dinnerstein, in her 1976 work "The Mermaid and the Minotaur: Sexual Arrangements and Human Malaise," argued that in order for us to address the excesses of male-dominated rule in society (militarism, rapacious consumerism), we must attack the root cause of patriarchy--women's domination of early childcare. In Dinnerstein's analysis, dangerous and unsustainable excesses of male and "masculine" authority in adult life (excesses linked to men's domination of political and economic institutions) arise from dangerous and unsustainable excesses of female and "feminine" authority in childhood (women's domination of childcare). Our misogynistic tendency to make women second-class in the highest-status areas of political and professional leadership arises from our lingering, childhood resentment of women's power over us as we experienced it in childhood. Therefore, in order to get rid of our misogyny, we must give men half of the work, responsibility, and authority associated with childrearing, according to Dinnerstein. While men's resistance to such anti-sexist reform is well known, women's resistance anti-sexist change is, perhaps, less generally understood. Therefore, this article draws from Dinnerstein's philosophical framework in critically examining and comparing various manifestations of gender bias in women, including the following: scholarly documentation of maternal gatekeeping behaviors (behaviors of women in the home that may prevent men from having equal authority and responsibility in childrearing); women's sometime tendency to discourage other women from advancing in workplace status; women's historical resistance to political innovations, such as the Equal Rights Amendment in the United States, that would advance women's political and professional status; and the misguided effacement of the "feminine" work of childhood educators by some "child-centered" women scholars in the education field. (As Provided).
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