SOC275H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: The Hooters, Precarious Work, Sex Segregation
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Soc275 lecture 6: the gendered world of work. The modern divide between the public and private sphere in the 19 th century: Virtually every society has a gendered division of labour that must be done in order for the society as a whole to survive. Along with industrializaion, there was a huge shit in how work was understood. The place of work became outside the home, which is a public sphere where work happened, and home as private sphere where reproducion, domesic responsibiliies happened. In the twenieth century, the rate of women entering the labour force exceeded that of men. In the twenieth century, the percentage of women working: 16. 2% in 1911 to more than 62% in. 2008(between age 25-54, more than 80% in 2003). Shit from male breadwinner model to the dual-earner couples, distribuing family responsibiliies. From standard employment relaionship (family wage, beneits, long-term contract) to precarious work. Not guaranteed employment at a factory unlike standard employment relaionship.
