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Why is gender a dimension of social stratification? How does gender intersect other dimensions of inequality based on caste, class, race and ethnicity?

  • UPSC 2019
  • Stratification and Mobility

Social stratification is the ranking of social categories into layers that receive unequal rewards, persist across generations and are justified by ideology. Gender meets every one of these criteria. Yet it never works alone: Kimberlé Crenshaw's idea of intersectionality (1989) holds that gender combines with caste, class, race and ethnicity to produce distinct social positions.

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  • Why gender is a dimension of stratification
  • How gender intersects other inequalities
  • Caste
  • Class
  • Race
  • Ethnicity
  • …and 2 more sections, with a conclusion

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