WGS 200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act Of 2009, Occupational Segregation, Gross Domestic Product
23 Jul 2016
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Worldwide, work, both paid and unpaid, and inside and outside the home, is a gendered phenomenon whereby certain activities are coded feminine and others masculine, and where the latter tends to be valued more. The reality is that humans who identify as women are much more likely to do such devalued labor, and to be paid less than those who identify as men for the work they do. While work is a gendered analytic construct, and there are social discourses and regimes of truth that construct meaning for work activities, there are important material realities for individuals performing the tasks of human subsistence. 40% of all families with children in the home have women as the primary breadwinner, and a major proportion of these are single women. Women work long hours b/c work for them often involves unpaid domestic labor and care of dependent family members as well as paid labor.
