Integration of traditional feminine and masculine characteristics

Refers to the cultural and social definition of feminine and masculine

The biological fact of femaleness or maleness

The understanding of gender differences that emphasize the characteristics that individuals learn in the socialization process

Refers to the beliefs, values, and cultural meanings that give higher value and prestige to masculinity than to femininity, that value men over women, and that institutionalize male control of socially valued resources

A policy of imposing negative sanctions on those who are homosexual or bisexual.

A way of organizing the social world based on sexual identity and a key linking process in the matrix of domination structured along the lines of race, class and gender

The understanding of gender differences resulting from factors external to individuals

In support of women's equality

Distinguishing and differentially evaluating males and females

Raise pay levels for occupations in which women and minorities dominate (comparable worth)

A form of social organization in which males dominate females

The invisible barriers that limit women's mobility despite their motivation and capacity for positions of power and prestige

Refers to the fact that males and females are cast as opposites and placed into two mutually exclusive categories

Genderinstitutional structures are organized along lines of gender

The pattern whereby women and men are situated in different jobs throughout the labor force