SOCIOL 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Sex Segregation, Nanny, Public Sphere
22 Nov 2016
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Paid and unpaid labour: i. e. women earn less than men. Gender gap in income is a stable feature of our labour market. Women"s paid employment constrained by their caregiving: male dominated trades; manual labour pay more, female dominated trades; clerical work lower pay. Vertical occupational sex segregation: within the same occupation, women earn less, in law females are less likely to become partners and have lower pay. Women do more unpaid labour than men: consistent with duel/fulltime income. Greater sharing with same-sex couples, younger couples, and women with higher education work on home (e. g. nanny) Women relying on quicker food, less clean houses, paying someone for their. Married men are healthier than single men, but married women are not: coming home from work to do domestic work a second shift. Impacts women"s health well being: (cid:498)the person who has more time to do house work will do it(cid:499) Men and women see the division of unpaid labour as fair.
