SOCI 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Quality Time, Job Sharing, Parental Leave
Week 14- revision
Final exam
• 60 m/c
• 10 T/F
• 5 definitions
o 2 sentences
• 1 mandatory short answer (Tremblay)
o no intervention
o cumulative
o work
• 2 short answers from 6
o individualization and family
o tech and family transition
o postmodernism
o …
CH 5-7
• an equal division of household labour and workforce participation decreases the
likelihood of divorced mothers to enter poverty
• Tremblay says parental leave is geared towards mother
o Giving the birth mother time for some leave
• Discuss possible strategies that employers could undertake to alleviate work related
stress?
o Flex time
o Work at home
o Daycare on site
o Job sharing
o Change work place culture
• Some pressing challenges families will have to face in the future with respect to
managing family life and work
o Cost of child care
o Quality time with each other
o Gender issues
o Gender imbalance
• ABCX model
o A: stressor event
▪ Unemployment
▪ Immigration
o B: family crisis meeting resources
▪ New comer association
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