WGST 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Trade Union, Global Gender Gap Report, Marilyn Waring
26 Feb 2016
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February 10, 2016: three central life-shaping processes, time crunch (gazzo, 2010), labour force segregation. Instrumental care work: affective care work, vertical segregation, horizontal segregation, wage gap, explained and unexplained of the wage gap, pay equity, proactive pay equity. Introduction: women have always worked; done a wide variety of paid labor skilled and unskilled. Shaping life processes: three central processes shape our life experiences: production, reproduction, and distribution, production: paid work, the security of our position, saving for the future, our relationship to the economy. Yet, this work is underpaid, few benefits, precarious labour: the feminization of poverty is due to systemic discrimination. Some women (cid:858)work(cid:859) 16 18 hour days unpaid everyday as (cid:858)leisure(cid:859) Being invisible while in prime working period. It would take everybody to change the way things are. Two forms of care work: care work is raced, gendered and classed.
