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Sociology 699F: Gender & Social Change 

Table 1. Gender Stratification Outcomes Across Macro-Structural Theorists.


Blumberg Chafetz Huber Collins et. al. Brinton Mason
Breastfeeding X
X X

Childcare X
X X X
Divorce X
X X
X
Dowry / Brideprice X



X
Education X X X X X X
Family decision making X X
X X X
Fertility X
X X X X
Household division of labor X X X X X
Income and (consumption) property X X X X X X
Labor force participation X X X X X X
Legal regulations
X X
X
Lineality and inheritance X X X X X X
Locality and geographic mobility X X X X X X
Marital partners (choice/exogamy/etc.) X
X X
X
Marital status / Age at marriage X
X
X X
Market vs. Household base of economy X

X X
Mortality (& sustenance: food, shelter) X X X

X
Movements / Protests

X X

Occupational / Labor segregation X
X X X X
Political office and power
X
X

Productive property / ownership and control X X X


Psychic gratification X X
X

Sex ratio
X X X

Seclusion / Physical mobility X
X X
X
Sexuality (social control of) X
X X
X
Time (discretionary) X X


X
Values, beliefs, and attitudes X X X X X X
violence (interpersonal) X X
X


24 16 21 22 14 17
See Cotter et al., 1998, "The Demand for Female Labor, American Journal of Sociology 103 (May): 1673-1712,

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