SOC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Household Division, Breadwinner Model, Conflict Theories
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Why: gendering of postsecondary areas of study, job choice, women more absences from workforce (get the call that their children are sick, but all of the above only account for half of the earnings diferenial. 31% of married women earn more than their husband. Maclean"s magazine (2012): men are doing much worst by the. Diferent family experiences economic climate today: infant"s sex is the irst piece of news parents receive at birth (or even before, gender-speciic behaviors encouraged. Rescue litle girls from challenges, encourage litle boys to solve challenges themselves. House work becomes a women"s second shit . Educaion, occupaion, economics, and family: are intertwined, the gendering of one area afects the gathering of other areas, despite many changes . A sexual division of labour remains essenially unchanged within the family (d) theorizing gender funcionalist perspecive: parsons gender difereniaion is funcional for families.