SOC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Clara Brett Martin, Elsie Macgill, Marriage Bar
13 May 2016
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88 women mp"s 26% more than last time election 2015. Women still take home 73 cents for every one dollar men take home. Women"s glass ceiling lack of women in senior executive levels. 44. 1 industry labour force (vertical segregation) Separate spheres model: industrialization saw men move into paid labour market, women worked at home( domestic labour was very time consuming) Cultural norm of man being the bread winner. Very low female labour force participation(very low paid employment: primarily young women, unmarried, widows, legal exclusion of women from many jobs, segregation of women into "female jobs" sewing etc. Early 1900s married women very low labour force participation: unmarried women a little bit more participation. Female jobs domestic servants (35. 7%), seamstresses (13. 5%), school teachers (13%), office clerks (5. 3%), farmers (3. 6%) Mostly hired because they were cheaper to hire than men. Women barred from professions until 1800s/ early 1900s. Clara brett martin, first women lawyer in ontario 1897.
