GEOG101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Un Women, Public Space, Occupational Segregation

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Geography and Environmental Management
• Course: GEOG101
• Professor: nancyworth

Document Summary

The sex of a person is biologically determined but their gender is socially produced. Private space is associated with: home/domesticity female domain low status/limited influence e. g. the suburbs. Public space is associated with: male domain, work/public life e. g. the central business district, high status/wide influence. Pu(cid:271)li(cid:272) spa(cid:272)e a(cid:374)d (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)(cid:859)s a(cid:272)(cid:272)ess to (cid:449)ork: pla(cid:374)(cid:374)i(cid:374)g a(cid:374)d orga(cid:374)isatio(cid:374) of (cid:272)ities li(cid:373)it (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)(cid:859)s (cid:449)aged opportu(cid:374)ities (cid:894)bo(cid:374)di a(cid:374)d christie, Impact of industrial urbanisation separates home life from waged employment: the pre-industrial home, site of commodity production (weaving, baking, farming) and reproduction (child rearing, communal lifestyle with kin, servants and apprentices; cooking, childcare, cleaning done collectively. Post-industrialisation and employment restructuring (bondi and christie, 1997: decline of traditional manufacturing factories, wo(cid:373)e(cid:374)(cid:859)s gro(cid:449)i(cid:374)g parti(cid:272)ipatio(cid:374) i(cid:374) the la(cid:271)our for(cid:272)e, feminisation of labour, women juggle part-time work with family tasks, face occupational segregation and income differentials. Gay and lesbian consumerism: transformation of the urban landscape, tourism.