SOCI 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Home Repair, Feminist Movement, Employment-To-Population Ratio
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Week 4: today: fm, chapter 5, wednesday. Issues: how does the gender dimension help us understand division of labor within families and. Today: gender and the cult of domesicity : wednesday: Fff chapters 4 and 11 (in groups + irst group report) Outline: paterns in labor force paricipaion, unpaid work. Unpaid work: cooking/cleaning, doing taxes, child care, home maintenance, pet care, homework(supervision, yard work. We put certain genders into certain models : washing advert = all women. How are families portrayed on prime ime television or in magazines with respect to the division of labour, and how has this changed over ime. In the media, we show diferent types of images, so not only women in the house. Changing socio-demographic trends: changes in female labour force paricipaion: sharply risen through ime, greatest changes in 1970"s women entered paid labor force, employment rate of women with children: large increases between 1976 and 2009.
