Year: 1999
Type: article
Abstract: Measuring women's social position: the importance of theory Gender, science and politicsThe classification of women's social position, an apparently technical issue, involves many of the classic themes in social science, where science and politics, the prescriptive and the descriptive, appear indissolubly entangled.Increasingly it has come to be regarded as unacceptable to use the occupation of a husband, male partner or father to allocate women to a social class.However, there is evidence that many social and political attitudes, aspects of consumer behaviour and health are strongly influenced by the social position of male next of kin. 1 Little as we may wish women's fate to depend on men's, much of our observation of society indicates that to some extent it still does.Of course, if women's equality were unproblematic, we would not need a political movement committed to it.Such movements, which reveal prejudice and injustice for what they are, have often been of benefit to science, because power and domination have a profound eVect on the growth of knowledge.
Author: M Bartley
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2016595998