The puzzle of persistence -- A primary frame for organizing social relations -- Cultural beliefs and the gendering of social relations -- Gendering at work -- Gender at home -- The persistence of inequality -- Implications for change
Summary
"How does gender inequality persist in an advanced industrial society like the United States, where legal, political, institutional, and economic processes work against it? This book draws on empirical evidence from sociology, psychology, and organizational studies to argue that people's everyday use of gender as a primary cultural tool for organizing social relations with others creates processes that rewrite gender inequality into new forms of social and economic organization as these forms emerge in society. Widely shared gender stereotypes act as a 'common knowledge' cultural frame that people use to initiate the process of making sense of one another in order to coordinate their interaction. Gender stereotypes change more slowly than material arrangements between men and women. As a result of this cultural lag, at sites of social innovation, people implicitly draw on trailing stereotypes of gender difference and inequality to help organize the new activities, procedures, and forms of organization that they create, in effect reinventing gender inequality for a new era."--Provided by publisher
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-220) and index
Notes
Online resource; title from digital title page (Oxford Scholarship online, viewed August 18, 2020)
