WGST 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Queer Theory, Feminist Theory, Underfunded
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Ridiculous that a woman wouldn"t know what to do. If you want something done honey, do it yourself. Started a publishing and movie producing company pacific standard: gone girl & wild. Films with women at the centre are not a public service project. 19 % of congress are women too low: public access to childcare, underfunded healthcare, need equal representation. Role in domestic partnership and how to decide who does what and how does the work unfold in the private realm of the home. Women have always worked; done a wide variety of paid labour skilled and unskilled laundry, teaching, nursing, midwifery, etc: women have always worked\ Women have also worked without pay; the unpaid work women do in the home is. 2 often work which goes unnoticed: formal economy. Stats can recently reported that men are increasingly participating in the unpaid household labour; yet women still report feeling more time stressed" than their male counterparts.