SOCB49H3 Lecture 4: Lecture 4-5 Motherhood and Reproductive Labor
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The notion of reproductive labor first, then we will talk about the film from last week. Most of the work was perceived as a male type of job, and women were able to do it and did it very well. But after the war was finished, women were forced out of the labor market, back into the reproductive labor to be mothers and wives. They were told doing feminine jobs were better for them, their family, and the country. So both the film and the reading show that the gender division of labor is not natural. Both at the macro level and the micro level. We need to examine, instead of taking it for granted. Productive labor is in the public sphere its paid with stratification, meaning that in the labor market, there are specific types of jobs that are seen as male types of jobs and others as female types of jobs.
