SOCIOL 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Sex Segregation, Gender Role, Public Sphere

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCIOL 1Z03
• Professor: Sandra Colevecchia

Document Summary

Women"s paid employment constrained by their caregiving. Horizontal occupational sex segregation - there are more men than women doing one type of job, and more women than men doing another type of job. Vertical occupational sex segregation - within the same eld or occupation. Female pharmacists are less likely than men to own their own pharmacies. Paid and unpaid labour are mutually reinforcing - women responsibilities such as childbearing reinforces their roles in the labour market. Women do more unpaid labour, even when working full time. Greater sharing among same-sex couples, younger couples, and women with greater educational attainment. Why women perceive division of unpaid labour as fair. Is when women began attending university and the waged labour force. Sexual revolution is the idea that women should be as free sexually as men ex. Such as low-class, women of colour, immigrant women (intersecting inequality) Liberal feminism: public sphere (not feminism in intimate relationships), equality of opportunity.