Sociology I · 10 marks · 150 words

Discuss the factors acting as barriers to social mobility of women.

Answered by 4 toppers · CSE 2023–2025

Social MobilityClass, Status, Gender and RacePatriarchy and Gender

Syllabus: Stratification and Mobility: (a) Concepts- equality, inequality, hierarchy, exclusion, poverty and deprivation. (b) Theories of social stratification- Structural functionalist theory, Marxist theory, Weberian theory. (c) Dimensions – Social stratification of class, status groups, gender, ethnicity and race. (d) Social mobility- open and closed systems, types of mobility, sources and causes of mobility.

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The toppers’ answers

Saurabh SharmaAIR 23 · CSE 2023 · 115 wordsTheir whole copy

Opening · a definition

Social mobility refers to change in position/ranks in a stratificational system. In case of women, social mobility refers to rising above the patriarchal constraints and breaking numerous shackles like :-

Body · points

  • Glass Ceiling
  • Glass Cliff
  • Pink Collar jobs
  • feminization of poverty
  • dual burden of work
  • Sexual harassment at workplace
  • managing child rearing with work
  • caste patriarchy
  • bodily autonomy
  • pressure to marry early

Close

Above listed factors are impediments to social mobility for women as described by feminists like Ann Oakley, Sylvia Walby. Some radical feminists have advocated for breaking away of family as an institution for true liberation of women & socially mobile order free from patriarchy.

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