F-12 Feminism Lect

8/10/2019 F-12 Feminism Lect.

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Feminism

SOWO 874 Lecture

Walter C. Farrell, Jr., Professor

Management and Community Practice

School of Social Work

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3550

[email protected]


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Black, Hispanic, Native American,Asian, and White Female Leaders forSocial Justice: Are They Feminists?

Ruth Bader Ginsburg (W)U.S. Supreme Court

Drew Gilpin Faust (W)First Female President, Harvard

Joanne Robinson (AA)---Logistical Strategist

for Montgomery Bus Boycott

Sacagawea (NA)Led Lewis and Clark Expedition


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Antonia Hernandez (H)First LatinaU.S. Surgeon General

Diane Narasaki (A)Leader in movement to overturn laws that allowed

Japanese to be interned during World War II. Executive Director,

Asian Counseling Services, Seattle, WA

Indra Nooyi (East Indian)First Female

CEO, PepsiCo


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Kathleen Sebelius (W)--U.S. HHS Secretary,

Former Governor of Kansas

Ursula Burns (AA)First Black Female

CEO of Fortune 500 Company, Xerox

Andrea Jung (Asian)CEO, Avon

Ann Mulcahy (W)Chairman, Xerox,

Mentored Ursula Burns While 1stFemale

CEO of Xerox


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President Lawrence Summers Gender

and Leadership Debacle at Harvard

Stated that women had personal qualitiesthatprevented them from achieving leadership positionsin science and math at a conference in (2004)

Black male member of the Harvard Board ofOverseers (Conrad Harper, Esq.) resigned in protest

in response to the board awarding Summers a 3%merit increase in the aftermath of his sexistcomments about women (2005)

Atty. Harper expressed his concern about a patternof insensitive and inappropriate behavior and

comments by President Summers

Summers resigned as President of Harvard in 2006

Replaced by Drew Gilpin Faust, first female Presidentof Harvard in its 300 year history


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Are Women Equal To Men?

Men and women should have equal access to opportunities,resources, etc.?

Manliness (2006) by Harvey Mansfield (Harvard Professorasserts that maniless characteristics place men abovewomen)

He asserts that In advocating gender equality, our society hasadopted a practice of human equality between the sexes thathas never been known before in human history

Should Men and Women be paid equally?

Is there male privilege?

Power is used to maintain status quo?

No one should face discrimination?


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Feminist Legal Theory

Concern with the legal treatment of women

Historically women were viewed as property

Feminist Jurisprudence

Society is patriarchaldominated by men

Examines how law maintains patriarchy

Application of feminist analysis andperspectives to areas of the law


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Feminist Perspectives in Therapy

Consciousness-Raising approach-- clients arehelped to assess the influence of racism,sexism, and homophobia in their lives

Egalitarian relationship and mutual respectbetween client and therapist

Assisting women toward empowermentin theirlives while they seek change in the socialstructure that form the basis of many of theirproblems


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Radical Feminist Theory

Critiqued liberal feminism-male defined norm

Called for transformation of systems

Promotes organizations that value femininetraits

Maintains women can have feminineorganizations outside realm of patriarchy


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Feminism and Sociology

Integration Research that includes women in the sample

population

Reforming theories by removing sexism

Separatism

Women conducting research for women

Reconceptualization

Revolution, not reform is necessary

Total and radical reformulation of social groupsto include the roles and contributions of women


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Liberal Feminist Theory

Individuals are rational and autonomous

Sex is biological; gender is socialized?

Equal access to opportunities, withoutchanging systems

Women are as human as men

In organizations:

Women as rational, effective, efficient, andfair as men

Glass ceiling is a major issue


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Psychoanalytic Feminist Theory

Social institutions affect development

Gender development is more positive whenboth parents are loving and autonomous

In organizations:

Women are unsuccessful due to theirsocialization

Earlier research suggests that women notorganizations should change

More recent research views femininecharacteristics more positively


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Other Feminist Theories

Marxistdomination and oppression ofwomen

Socialistsexual division of labor,segregation

Third World/Post Colonialexaminingintersection of capitalization,colonialism, and gender stratification


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Management and Womanhood

Dualism between womanv. manager

Estrangement and isolation

Exclusionary practices reproducehomogeneity of organizationalhierarchies

Survival of the group?

Gender, personal knowledge, and theopposition to old boys networks


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Female Social Workers:Victims of Violence

February 7, 2008: Diruhi Matain (female), 53,

killed by her 19 year-old male chronically

mentally ill patient in MA

February 6, 2008: Eleanor Susan Lee was

punched/kicked in the Wake County Human

Services building in Raleigh by a drug addicted

male with a history of assaulting females

October 26, 2006: Boni Frederick, 67, killed in

Kentucky by a boyfriend of a young female

whose child was in protective custody


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Take Aways

Gender inequalities are one result ofsystemic problems that affect everyone

Gender/other inequalities are increasing

and are becoming normalized?

Discrimination and oppression must bechallenged in society and organizations

Women do not have to become men tosucceed in organizations

Women have to leadand are leading in

societys move toward equality!

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