MHR 600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Gender Role, Labor Rights, Heterosexism

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Human Resources
• Course: MHR 600
• Professor: Rupa Banerjee

Document Summary

In 2015, 82% of women aged 25-54 participated in the labour market, compared to 21. 6% in 1950, and 65. 2% in 1983. The proportion of women with a university degree has grown twice as much as the proportion of men in the past 20 years. In 2015 women outnumbered men among university-degree holders by 6. 5 percentage points. Gender gap in education: between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of women with a university degree increased from 13. 7% to 35. 1, over the same period, the proportion of men with a university degree increased from 17. 1% to 28. 6% Gender employment gap decreases as education increases, but it does not disappear. There is a point where people find it worthwhile to go to work. There are systematic differences (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374) do(cid:374)"t go out i(cid:374) the jo(cid:271) (cid:373)a(cid:396)ket u(cid:374)less they ha(cid:448)e e(cid:374)ough (cid:373)o(cid:374)ey to pay fo(cid:396) (cid:272)hild(cid:272)a(cid:396)e. Males are no longer expected to be the sole breadwinners.