Why is the social status of women relatively low?

Women's social status depends on their responsibilities in society, that is, their role in social division of labor.

Women's social status is mainly determined by four factors: the decisive factor is women's social responsibility, and the other three factors are social form, people's gender concept and women's education level.

Nowadays, women's social status should be further improved, but due to long-term historical accumulation, it is impossible to completely eliminate the influence of gender factors on personal social status in a short time.

Affected by the imbalance of economic and social development, the improvement of women's status between urban and rural areas, regions and groups is also in an unbalanced state;

With the deepening of reform, the resolution of some deep-seated contradictions and key problems, and the adjustment of interest pattern, the development gap between men and women at different levels has also widened in some aspects and to a certain extent. Coupled with the influence of the traditional concept that men are superior to women, this gap will never be eliminated in the short term.

Extended data

Social status usually refers to the relative position of social members in social relations based on differences in social attributes and the rights and obligations formed around this position.

From the perspective of sociological theory, the so-called social status refers to any social status with prescribed rights and obligations, no matter whether this status is high or low, social status is the status of individuals in the social relations system, and whether this status is naturally formed or formed by the needs of social division of labor.

Employment and division of labor are important aspects of social status, but social status is not equal to employment. Social status refers to the position, function and contribution of individuals in social life. Indeed, to gain social status, we must participate in social life, but there are two kinds of participation in social life: paid participation and free participation.

Personal position in social networks. Social arrangements are usually based on wealth, prestige, education or power. The relations of production are the basis of all social relations. In a class society, the class status of an individual determined by the relations of production is the basic social status of an individual.

Each individual forms a variety of social relations in a certain society and may obtain a variety of social status. According to different standards, the social status of individuals can be divided into different rank sequences, such as class status, political status, economic status, professional status, power prestige status and so on.

These social positions are intertwined and consistent to a great extent, and can generally be divided into two categories: congenital status and acquired status. The former refers to the inherent fixed status, such as hereditary aristocrat, hereditary slave, father and son, etc. The latter refers to the positions that are acquired through hard work, such as professors, engineers, factory directors, etc.

Sociology attaches great importance to the study of the relationship between various status. The first is the research on identity consistency and identity contradiction. The consistency of status means that individuals have multiple positions at roughly the same level, for example, a person has a high class status, educational status and professional status.

In a society with less social mobility and strict hierarchy, the status consistency is strong.