GSWS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Permanent Residency, Daddy Day Care, Parental Leave

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Gender Sexuality & Wom St
• Course: GSWS 101
• Professor: Lara Campbell

Document Summary

: the sexual politics of paid and unpaid labor. A short history of work - context: meanings of work : households were the primary source of economic activity; Realities: normative family life; political scientists argue that once you start to devalue unpaid labor you start to see: Ideal = woman at home and male breadwinners (man = full time job/workers to support the family and the home & wives are homemakers: values of female domesticity (wives, mothers, values of male breadwinning (paid labor/providers) Reality: wages were so low for breadwinners, women/children had to work in the labor force: women/children got even lower wages. Labor force participation rates: labor force participation rates for women: gradually increase (doesn"t count housework, child care; work for wages, even though the value of women domesticity remains. Increased presence of married women especially (before the hope/dream was that you"d get married and not have to work)