Question

Do you think that women have always been subjected to injustice and inequality form the beginning of time? Justify your answer with proper examples form the textbook. *​

Answer 1

Answer:

Yes women have always been subjected to injustice and inequality form the beginning of time.

Explanation:

I can't justify it because I don't know which textbook you use. thanks

Answer 2

Answer: sociological use of the term, dogs don’t have gender; only people living within socially

constructed relations are gendered.1

This distinction raises a fundamental question in sociological theory about what it

means to say that something is “natural”. Gender relations are generally experienced as

“natural” rather than as something created by cultural and social processes. Throughout

most of history for most people the roles performed by men and women seem to be

derived from inherent biological properties. After all, it is a biological fact that women

get pregnant and give birth to babies and have the capacities to breastfeed them. Men

cannot do this. It is biological fact that all women know that they are the mothers of the

babies they bear, whereas men know that they are the fathers of particular children only

when they have confidence that they know the sexual behavior of the mother. It is a small

step from these biological facts to the view that it is also a fact of nature that women are

best suited to have primary responsibility for rearing children as well, and because of this

they should be responsible for other domestic chores.

The central thesis of sociological accounts of gender relations is that these biological

facts by themselves do not determine the specific form that social relations between men

and women take. This does not imply, however, an even stronger view, that gender

relations have nothing to do with biology. Gender relations are the result of the way

social processes act on a specific biological categories and form social relations between

them. One way of thinking about this is with a metaphor of production: biological

differences rooted in sex constitute the raw materials which, through a specific process of

social production, get transformed into the social relations we call “gender”.

Now, this way of thinking about sex and gender leaves entirely open the very difficult

question of what range of variation in gender relations is stably possible. This is a critical

question if one holds to a broadly egalitarian conception of social justice and fairness.

From an egalitarian point of view, gender relations are fair if, within those relations,

males and females have equal power and equal autonomy. This is what could be termed

“egalitarian gender relations.” This does not imply that all men and all women do exactly

the same things, but it does mean that gender relations do not generate unequal

opportunities and choices for men and women.

The sociological problem, then, is whether or not a society within which deeply

egalitarian gender relations predominate is possible. We know from anthropological

research that in human history taken as a whole there is enormous variation in the

character of social relations between men and women. In some societies at some points in

history, women were virtually the slaves of men, completely disempowered and

vulnerable. In some contemporary societies they must cover their faces in public and

cannot appear outside of the home without being accompanied by an appropriate man.