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Gender Inequalities and Minority Women Disempowerment

Explore disparities in corporate promotions, societal division of labor, income differences by gender and racialization. Discuss the intersectionality of gender, race, and class in amplifying inequality for minority women.

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Gender Inequalities and Minority Women Disempowerment

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  1. Week 8 GENDER DIFFERENCES, GENDERED INEQUALITY

  2. March 8, Intl Women’s Day • Celebrate advances, Concerns over delays • Best of times, worst of times/Half glass full/empty? • A perspective? Compared to past, compared to others, compared to Canada’s ideals • Disparities = personal or structural? = gendered society? = “minority women” = most vulnerable

  3. Minority Women Disempowerment Globe and Mail Survey/content analysis: Advertised Corporate Promotions/Appointments (oct 12/10 to Mar 11 2013) (4.9%) White males = 1314 White women = 306 Racialized males = 60 Racialized women = 23

  4. Gendered Society • Distinction • Division of Labour • Devaluation • Deeply embedded in society (systemic) • How expressed? – misogyny, sexism, androcentrism, patriarchy

  5. Gendered society = patriarchal society • System designed, organized, controlledby for and about men • Reflect, reinforce, advance male interests • Male activities/characteristics valued as/or norm • Men = preferential access • Gendered reality: Formal equality but system not designed to reflect reality/constructed to advance interests • To date, reform (change conventions), not transform (rules • Is it still a white man’s world?

  6. Overview of ChapterWomen are Minorities (within Minorities) Too Objectives • Examine R E A relation through prism of gender • Examine Gender through lens of REA relations • How gender intersects + Intrasectswith … Assumptions: Gender relations are unequal relations

  7. Racialized Inequality: Power Globe and Mail Survey/content analysis: Advertised Corporate Promotions/Appointments (oct 12/10 to Mar 11 2013) (4.9%) White males = 1314 White women = 306 Racialized males = 60 Racialized women = 23

  8. Is MC bad for women

  9. Gender Differences, Gendered Realities

  10. INCOME DIFFERENCES:Table5.2 Earnings* by gender, racialization, and place of birth (in $) males females average • Racializedminority (CB**) $42 433 $33 519 $38 582 • Racialized minority (FB***) $35 329 $27 075 $31 829 • Whites (CB) $43 456 $31 150 $38 529 • Whites (FB) $46 457 $31 627 $40 854 • Aboriginal peoples $32 369 $26 361 $29 290 • * Full-time, full-year earnings for those aged 25 to 64. ** Canadian born *** Foreign born • Source: Adapted from Kunz et al. 2001. Source: 1996 Census, Public Use Microdata File.

  11. Intersectionality • Multiplier effect gender X race X class X ethnicity = amplify • Value = holistic = inequality is intensified = women/minority experiences at core

  12. Intrasectional Analysis • Differences within Differences • Gender (Aboriginal Women or Racialized Women of Colour or Immigrant & Refugee Women) intersects with race, class, etc

  13. Violence Against Minority Women • Debunking myths • More? or less options? • Aboriginal women • Violence toward Minority Women = intersectional + intrasectional

  14. March 21 – Intl Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination UN Report Card on Canada? • Good on ya, but… • Racial Discrimination - income, poverty, employment - racial profiling / CJS - violence toward Aboriginal women • A Perspective….

  15. CJS and Blacks/Aboriginal Peoples • Federal Corrections Aboriginal Peoples = 4% of pop = 23% of inmates • Ontario Corrections - black/Aboriginal youth = 5 times more likely - Aboriginal young women = 10 times • A context – usa jail ratio vs Canada vs aboriginal/black youth • Why? complex interrelated factors …from Spirit Matters Report, March 2013

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