SOC227H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Intersectionality, Human Capital, Main Source
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Labor movement"s demands was that wages should be high enough for male breadwinner to support wife & children. Labor movement"s success was reducing women"s presence, and cheap labor provided. Female dependence and restriction of women"s labor market opportunities. Paris & hanover appeared to be small thriving manufacturing communities, but the knit goods industry in paris relied on female workforce, while in. Different gender identities, attitudes and behaviors arose to maintain each town"s labor force. Paris- employers organized production to fit around childbearing & rearing. Rising female labor force participation rates since end of world war 2. Canada experienced the largest change, followed by australia and us. Expansion of white-collar service sector jobs, rising education and decline birthrates. 180 influences & intersectionality in women"s and men"s employment. Occupational gender segregation refer to the concentration of men & women in different occupations.
