WGS210H5 Lecture Notes - Family Wage, Parental Leave, Critical Thinking
14 Jan 2014
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Last week: division of labour at home, micro and macro. Connection between social policies national context and individuals behaviours. Work regulation work family balance and gender equity all influence gender division at home. Most important macro initiative in terms of social policy is having an universal childcare policy which supports family balance. Extended parenting leave for both parent reduce traditional attitudes. In canada ei provides maternity and parent benefits to indv who are preg or given birth or adopting or caring for newborn. Parental leave is from 10-35 weeks and can be divided between 2 parents and exclude. Women are doing better in university than men. Women still earn less than men the wage gap. Studies done to find out why there is an gender wage gap. Women continue to choose traditional female jobs. University women are still in traditionally female disciplines. And this results in the wage gap.
