SWP 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Neoliberalism, Child Tax Credit, Motherhood Penalty

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Social Work
• Course: SWP 302
• Professor: Rose Ann Torres

Document Summary

Lecture 10: gender & social policy his & her states of welfare. Familism = idealization of what family should embody. Women care (cid:373)e(cid:374) la(cid:271)ou(cid:396)e(cid:396) (cid:894)(cid:1005)(cid:1013)(cid:1008)(cid:1004)(cid:859)s (cid:449)elfa(cid:396)e(cid:895) Family, community & social relations important for social cohesion but need to be reconsidered. Women as beneficiaries (means-tested) & men as claimants (insurance contributors) Number of women elected most in history - 68/308 (2009) Women more likely to support progressive social policy, but less represented in political positions. Women approximately 71% what men ear for full-year. Male employed full-year, full-time with less than a grade 9 education earned on average , 731- a women with a post-secondary certificate or diploma full-year, full-time: , 539 (1997) Pay gap is for less than university-educated women, earning just 68% as much as men (2005) Men are still three times more likely than women to be *senior managers (clc, 2008) *both public and private sector. Women make up 80% of single parent families.