POLS 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Social Reproduction, Equal Pay For Equal Work, Breadwinner Model
4 Apr 2016
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Week 9: binary sex/gender, politics and the state: gender equality and the. Gender regime: organization of roles through a set of rules, state does this through it"s policies, look at this to assess gender equality in states. In canada most women do unpaid work and pay taxes. Social provisioning: caring and unpaid labour considered as economic activities; they may not be commoditized by the market but are still productive. Economic, political, and social relations of power. Intersectionality: class/race/ethnicity: lowest paid workers are childcare workers. Hetero-normative family reconstitutes the gendered division of labour. Men engage through the market relation: contributory social insurance schemes based on market relation. Women engage through care relation: beneficiaries of means-tested social assistance, viewed as less legitimate than any contributory programs. All these models mask the fact that women often bear the burden of sacrificing their career (happens in same sex relationships as well)
