Review of Limiting Inequality Through Interaction: The end(s) of Gender
Ridgeway and Correll in their 2002
article Limiting Inequality Through
Interaction: The end(s) of Gender, significantly expose the rift between
genders in what has now become “an institutional system of social practices for
constituting people as two significantly different categories, males, and
females†as described by sociologists. According to the perspective developed
by the two, the gender system is multilevel like other systems of inequality
and thus affects various aspects including patterns of behavior, situational
structures, distribution of resources, and cultural beliefs among others.
Although these effects apply at different levels such as individual,
interactional, and macro levels, the fundamental rules of the gender system
apply mostly at the interactional level (where men and women interact).
Ridgeway and Correll through the essay present an attainable utopian vision
that would change how the gender system functions. They provide answers to what
must be done to diminish interactional forces that propagate gender inequality
and what could be done to elevate equality.
Gender inequality is a significant
concern throughout the world. The gender system has to a large extent been
built upon the cultural presumption or belief that men are generally more
competent or superior than women and thus legitimizes men’s authority or status
in the society. Although we cannot be able to end gender and completely change
the stereotype associated with the gender system, it’s right to say that we can
push gender to its ends by retaining sex categorization but limiting the
inequality that comes along with it. As suggested by the authors, gender can be
pushed to its ends through such initiatives as equal resource policies,
workplace policies that are family-friendly, bureaucratic accountability and
open information about remuneration and pay at the workplace. Gender equality
is more likely to be achieved if the presumption that men are more superior
than women can become extinct.
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