Gender in Latin America

nI. Introduction

nII. Gender in Brazil

nIII. Gender in Chile

nIV. Conclusions

I. Introduction

nA. Basic Concepts

n1. _________: social characteristics that a society considers proper for its males and females

n2. in nearly every culture, there are very different _______________________ for each gender

n3. in nearly every culture, traits defined as masculine are _________________ than those defined as feminine

n4. the result is ______________________________: men’s and women’s unequal access to power, prestige, and property on the basis of their gender

nB. Cultural Concepts about Gender in Latin America

n1. ______________________: an ideal of female conduct based on the Virgin Mary, affirming women’s moral superiority by prescribing a life of humility and self-sacrifice

n2. ____________________: the aggressive assertion of male domination and chauvinism

n3. economic and political changes are challenging these ____________________ throughout Latin America

nC. Women’s Changing Economic Roles

n1. economic crises since 1980 made it difficult for families to _______________________________

nC.2. large scale movement of women into the _______________ has broken down the stereotype of men’s place in the workforce and women’s place in the _______________

n3. many women work in the _______________________, without legal protections about minimum wages or other benefits

n4. _____________________________ employing mainly female workers have multiplied throughout Latin America over the last five decades

nD. Women’s Changing Political Roles

n1. parallel movement of women into politics throughout the region in recent decades, erasing the men in public/_________________________________________

nD.2. first stage of women’s political involvement usually via development of ________________________: social movements organized by women to access the resources that they need to be good mothers; usually made up of the poor who are seeking help with difficulties of daily life

n3. ______________________________: social movements directly challenging male dominance in the economy and politics; mainly composed of middle class and upper class women

II. Gender in Brazil

nA. Machismo

n1. a real man is ________________________________ always ready to prove his manhood, and dominant and sexually aggressive in relations with women

n2. men essentially driven by their ________________________________

n3. _______________________________________, with men in the public sphere of paid labor and politics

n4. male ____________________

nB. Marianismo

n1. _________________________ as main role of women

n2. _________________________________ in the household (private/domestic sphere, not public)

n3. dependence on __________

n4. women have ___________________________________ over childlike men, especially mothers over sons

n5. women’s ______________________________ based on being a good mother and taking care of the family

nC. Women’s Movements

n1. an early source of resistance that was permitted by the ___________________________________ as part of its efforts to open up politics in the 1980s

n2. feminine movements of ___________________________ of major cities sought to pressure the government to provide water, sewers, electricity, schools, healthcare, and other essential services to their families

n3. feminist movements mainly composed of middle class and upper class women developed that pushed for ______________________________________________

na. 1988 constitution includes provisions for __________________________________________

nC.4. efforts to combat _______________________________________ have been a major focus of feminist movements over the past two decades

na. O.J. Simpson in Brazil and _______________________________________

nb. women’s __________________________________ for women to report domestic violence, rape and other crimes to female police officers who would take women’s complaints seriously

III. Gender in Chile

nA. The Historical Role of Women in Economics and Politics

n1. the first country to admit women to ______________________________

n2. many middle and upper class women were able to become _____________________ and other types of professionals

n3. first nation to give women the ___________________________ in 1949 (same year as Argentina)

n4. however, women were still ______________________________ by their fathers and husbands

nB. The Allende Government and _____________________________ Divisions Among Women

n1. problems of poverty and inequality and the socialist government’s efforts to address them led to the political _____________________________________________ of some women across all social classes

n2. most Chilean women ______________________________________ Allende’s radical reform efforts

n3. upper and middle class women ____________________________________ to Allende in their roles as mothers because of growing political violence and shortages of consumer goods

nC. Pinochet’s U.S.-backed Coup and Women’s Roles

n1. loss of democracy and the murders of thousands of suspected opponents of the military regime led many women to _____________________________________________

n2. poor women organized ________________________________________ to earn income and provide services for their families

n3. women entered the _________________________ in growing numbers in order to survive and care for their families

nD. The 1988 Vote Against Pinochet and its Consequences for Women

n1. Pinochet expected that ____________________________________ him in the plebiscite as they had during his coup, especially because of renewed economic growth in the 1980s

n2. continuation of ______________________________ since the end of the Pinochet regime leaves many poor and working class women struggling to care for their families

IV. Conclusions

nA. Women have a long history of _____________________________, both in the household (including as unpaid family labor on farms) and in the workplace

nB. Recent years have seen an ________________________________ for women in the informal and the formal economy and in politics

nC. Cultural ideas about gender are _______________________________ than economic and political roles

nD. Economic and political crises push societies toward _________________________________ in the economic and political roles of women and in cultural ideas about gender

nE. There are still ____________________________________ to gender equality in Latin America