This essay will look at gender inequalities from several different perspectives. Biology theories, socialist theories and feminist theories. Three questions that many sociologists have looked at are: Why are there gender inequalities? How are they sustai

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This essay will look at gender inequalities from several different perspectives. Biology theories, socialist theories and feminist theories.  Three questions that many sociologists have looked at are: Why aree there gender inequalities? How are they sustained? Can gender inequalities be eradicated?

Biological theories- believe it to be impossible to achieve an equal society because hormones, genetics and chromosomes ‘naturally’ determine gender inequalities, and it is these natural factors that cause and sustain universal inequalities. One of the main critics is that biological theorist use data taken from animals and then apply it to humans.

Socialist theories- are functionalist-influenced theories, they are most concerned with social factors rather than biological factors in the explanation for gender inequalities. In this theorie that argue that men and women have different scripts are they are learnt through socialization, particurly from infancy and childhood. The believe that children are taught to conform to their muscaline and feminie role and by doing so they meet the norms and expectations that are attached to that roleIn this theory gender inequalities exist because men and women are socialised into different roles. A belief that gender inequalities can be reduced or even eradicated through none sexist child rearing.

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Feminist theories- offer amore sociological conception on differences between men and woman, they place greater stress on structural and institutional factors. There are a number of feminist theories which focus on different aspects of gender relations in their explanation of gender inequalities.

Marxist feminist argue that gender inequalities arise from the working of the capatalist economin-system: it requires and benefits from women’s unpaid labour in the home, an example of this is that men are the reproduction of labour and it’s a woman labour in the home that keeps men fed and healthy. Marxist feminists believe that gender inequalities ...

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