GEOG 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Combined Oral Contraceptive Pill, Free Trade, Gender Pay Gap
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Canada in transition: children no longer source of labour. The fertility rate has declined from 3. 75 in 1961 to 1. 61 in 2011 per women. Point system for assessing potential immigrants has transformed canada"s. End of the long boom and trade liberalization has led to a hollowing out of. Canada is now a post-industrial, urban society ethnic structure. Economic factors: transition from an agrarian economy to an industrial and post- industrial economy, greater participation of women in the paid labour force. Canadian government now received policy moves, recommended that we increase female labour participation. Wage gap, 21 cents per hour right now. Social factors: changing attitudes towards: access to education for girls and women, female participation in the paid labour force, use of birth control. Availability, and attitudes around use: marriage and the nature of the family unit. People getting married later, fewer people opting for traditional marriage. After the last kid leaves the nest.
