Start a new page and… List Women who are successful and are in positions of power. Women who are fulfilling the “traditional role of women”

4.2 Changing attitudes to gender roles in the UK (2) Outline a brief history of women’s rights Explain how the laws have changed Do you think that laws have been effective?

4.2 Changing attitudes to gender roles in the UK Pages 88-89 Draw a timeline of events that brought about the change in attitudes to women’s roles. Activity 2 Activity 3 “women and men are different and so can never be equal.” Do you agree? Why would others disagree with you?

1. There is a gender system Males and females are socialized into masculinities and femininities. Masculine and feminine behavior is not simply determined by biology. 2. The gender system is damaging Masculinities and femininities can be damaging and dehumanizing to both males and females. 3. Women are oppressed Women have suffered various types of systematic mistreatment throughout history, and continue to do so in the present. This mistreatment is unjust. If it can be called “oppression,” then women suffer gender oppression. 4. Sexism exists Sexism—hateful, contemptuous, bigoted, or discriminatory attitudes based on sex—is real. Sexism can be institutionalized socially and politically. The feminist identification and critique of misogyny has mitigated it to a degree, though institutionalized misogyny still exists. 5. Males have unjust advantages Males have some systematic advantages over females that they do not have a right to.

6. Marginalization of the experience of women Prior to feminism, the experience of women was marginalized in academic and scientific disciplines, and in public discourse. 7. Sexuality involves power dynamics Under the gender system at least, sexuality is intertwined with power dynamics. E.g. male-dominant, female-submissive, and male-active, female-passive. These power dynamics are not limited to heterosexuality. The link between power dynamics and sexuality can be damaging to people. 8. There is something wrong with pornography Pornography can be dehumanizing toward both its users and towards its participants. Even if pornography can be defended on legal grounds, these liberal arguments doesn’t protect it from moral critique. 9. There is intersectionality of oppression Gender oppression and oppression based on race, sexual orientation, or class, can combine multiplicatively (and sometime supramultiplicatively) into oppression that is more than the sum of its parts. 10. Beauty standards can be damaging Beauty standards and objectification can be damaging to female self-esteem. It would be both practical and moral to change images of beautiful women in the media in certain ways.

How Vote Education Maternity leave- promotion and better career prospects Equality in society Equality in the home (househusbands) 50 50 childcare

Why War Pill Attitudes have continued to change Protests/media Feminist movement