SOCI 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Domestic Worker, Elderly Care, Child Care
Document Summary
Unpaid labour is unpaid work caring for family members and maintaining a household. Domestic labour is all work involved in maintaining a home. Caregiving involves the care of children or disabled, injured, ill, elderly, or dying family members. Increase in female labour force participation and dual-earner families. Men"s and women"s participation in paid work and domestic labour became more similar over time. Men continue to spend more time in paid labour and less time in unpaid labour. Came as a result of industrialization, stricture division of work. After 2nd demo transition, they go back home after work and then they have to spend "a second day" Another days of work at home doing housework. Men contribute but most notably in household maintenance an repairs. Studies suggest that inequality i domestic work also occurs in gay and lesbian families. No one ever earns wages for wiping noses or countertops.
