SOCB49H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Analytical Review, Underemployment, Reproductive Labor
Document Summary
Reproductive labor is essential to sustain the society. It is a thorny issue b/c in heterosexual relationships men still don"t share the work of the reproductive labor. His father was absent in his childhood. Physically producing a child is not enough to be a father. In obama"s case, his father was absent during his childhood. Notion of breadwinner has long been aspired by both men and women. Increases in labor force participation of women with young children; Women left the force for child rearing but returned after. No longer completely shouldered by a stay home mom. Increases in stay-at-home fathers (25% from 1992 to 2002) Shift b/w conventional stay at home mothers to stay at home fathers. Decrease in stay-at-home mothers (25% from 1992 to 2002); Six-fold increase of single-earner families with a stay at-home father between 1976 (2/100 of single earner families) and 2005 (12/100); Women are the primary earners in one-third (1/3) of canadian two-earner families, 2006.
