1. Chapter 3 Gender and Family: Overburdened Women and Displaced Men

2. © 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Nietzsche Undone: From Superman to Supermom The idea of women’s liberation is much older than we usually imagine: –But the idea of men’s liberation may be older still The rising influence of well-educated and influential women in the 1800s: –Matched by Victorian ideal of womanhood

3. © 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Nietzsche Undone: From Superman to Supermom Women began the movement into wage labor early in: –The U.S. and European industrial periods In the 1920s, U.S. women worked sometimes as an expression of: –Newfound independence

4. © 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Nietzsche Undone: From Superman to Supermom Women married younger than ever before: –After years of declining fertility rates they again started to have more children: At a younger age Even in the 1950s, fully one-third of the U.S. labor force was female

5. Nietzsche Undone: From Superman to Supermom Masculinity as Vulnerability: The Harder They Fall Tired, Stressed Women and Angry, Alienated Men Locked In and Shut Out The Feminization of Migration © 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

6. Global Family Changes Marriage and Divorce –Patriarchal; Matrilocal Parenting –Divorce rates, falling marriage rates, delayed marriages make single parents more common Governments & communities are confronted with easing this burden for single parents & children

7. © 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Figure 3.1 Divorce Rates for Selected Countries

8. © 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Figure 3.1 Divorce Rates for Selected Countries

9. © 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Half the Sky The Continued Perils of Being Female –Links among abuse, illness, early death, dangerous abortions, & personal degradation Feminist Theory and World Feminist Movements –Feminist movements continue to work for the rights of women

10. © 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Figure 3.2 Women in Government

11. © 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Table 3.1 Gender Pay Gap in Selected Countries