SOC275H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Parental Leave, Child Development, Economic Security
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Income earner can say no and not my part of job: favor men and how they want to get things done. Pay less more flexibility and less promotions and economic change: social reasons, ww2 women got taste for earning money and independence and eager to enter jobs. Working with other people sense of satisfaction and companionship. Taking women into real world was appealing: research: how housework was allocated despite women in workforce found men did not work at home. Marriage premium: getting married better income, better health but no longer true and people cohabit not unique. Maybe marriage isn"t so good but when it ends things go really bad: his and hers marriage and his is better. Married men more happy and women happy when single. Causes of unhappiness, women less time leisure, sleep, and stressed: women and duels earners couples work more paid and unpaid work.
