argument map --> project four by Ashley Gomes

Gendered Working Environments: A Detriment to Women's Mental Health

ag2629 — 2025-04-10 14:52:23 UTC

Social Conditioning At a Young Age

ag2629 — 2025-04-10 15:01:12 UTC

What is considered feminine? What is considered masculine?

United Kingdom: At age 7, a large portion of boys and girls had clear differences in their aspiration of work --> driven by the social conditioning about the roles and norms deemed "appropriate."

United States: 22,000 young people in the United States had these gendered expectations carry into adulthood.

Social Construction of Gender

ag2629 — 2025-04-10 15:09:49 UTC

What is sex? What is gender? What are their differences?

Sex --> a biological construct premised upon biological characteristics

Gender --> a social construct regarding culture-bound conventions, roles, and behaviors, as well as relations between and among, women and men and boys and girls

Violence in the Workplace

ag2629 — 2025-04-10 15:12:59 UTC

Statistically, there is more evidence of sexual/physical acts of violence towards women from men. This, in turn, contributes to the drop of women working in male-dominated fields and increases many cases of anxiety and depression with women.

ag2629 — 2025-04-10 15:17:36 UTC

a Ted Talk bt Barbara MacQuarrie discussing these issues

Variation in Employment Arrangements

ag2629 — 2025-04-10 15:19:44 UTC

Data shows that women have negotiable “wage penalty” per child, compared to men whose wage increases as a result of having children. Women are more likely to have “interrupted” working careers due to caring responsibilities and thus may have a working life characterized by entry and exit from the labour market.

fatherhood bonus v. motherhood penalty

ag2629 — 2025-04-10 15:21:06 UTC