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CHAPTER 11 Gender, Age, and Health

CHAPTER 11 Gender, Age, and Health. Section 1: Gender Section 2: Age and Disability Section 3: Health. Section 1: Gender. Objectives:. Analyze how gender roles affect the opportunities available to men and women in society. Explain how gender roles are affected by socialization.

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CHAPTER 11 Gender, Age, and Health

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  1. CHAPTER 11Gender, Age, and Health Section 1: Gender Section 2: Age and Disability Section 3: Health

  2. Section 1: Gender Objectives: • Analyze how gender roles affect the opportunities available to men and women in society. • Explain how gender roles are affected by socialization.

  3. Section 1: Gender Gender Roles and Opportunities • Education– still gender distinctions in degree majors, fewer women pursuing doctoral or professional degrees, and less funding for women’s college athletics • Employment– still a wage gap and a glass ceiling for women • Politics– underrepresented in politics

  4. Section 1: Gender Gender Roles and Socialization • In virtually all societies, gender socialization begins at birth and continues throughout life • Children learn American gender-role behaviors through socialization such as in the family or at school

  5. Section 2: Age and Disability Objectives: • Discuss the effect that the aging of the population is having on society. • Explain how the aging of the population is affecting the life chances of older Americans.

  6. Section 2: Age and Disability The Aging World • Economic Effects – rising cost of health care, cost of Social Security; burden to family and younger workers; living longer in retirement • Political Effects – becoming a stronger political force; organized voting bloc, focusing on health care, retirement, and Social Security

  7. Section 2: Age and Disability Aging and Life Changes of Older Americans • Some people claim that government transfer payments like Social Security have made older Americans financially secure at the expense of younger generations • Older Americans have to deal with poverty, disabilities, prejudice, and discrimination • Older Americans have become a political force and a topic of debate thus bringing greater attention to Social Security and Medicare

  8. Section 3: Health Objectives: • Describe the state of health care in the United States. • Identify some of the special health-care concerns of various segments of American society.

  9. Section 3: Health Health Care in the U.S. • Focuses on Two Main Issues: • Cost of Health Care – concern over the rapid rise in health care costs • Quality of Health Care – some believe that managed care has decreased the quality of health care • Access to Health Care – distribution of physicians, both geographically and within the medical profession, has limited accessibility to health care

  10. Section 3: Health Health Care Concerns Today • Health Insurance– unequal health care exists between public and private insurance programs • Alternative Medicine– is a concern because there are few scientific studies on the effectiveness of alternative treatments • AIDS – has developed into one of the most serious public-health problems in the U.S. and around the world in just two decades

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