SOCC09H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Unemployment Benefits, Social Inequality, Neoliberalism
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Sociology of gender and work lecture 5 gaps, ceilings, Escalators, revolving doors, and segregation: guppy and luonga . Review: growing convergence of men and women in arena of economic participation and opportunity educational attainment, political empowerment, and domestic labor in canada. Availability of birth control access to abortion. Availability of birth control/ access to abortion. Changes in divorce law granted women more freedom to leave unwanted situations and all these situations led women to participate more in the public sphere. Women gained increasing autonomy as they participated in the increasingly powerful institution of commerce, education and politics. Women no longer defined in terms of the private domain where historically men ruled: economic participation , good: Only 20% of women worked in 1920s compared to 80% in2013. Wo(cid:373)e(cid:374)"s a(cid:448)erage (cid:449)ages are (cid:272)o(cid:373)i(cid:374)g (cid:272)loser to (cid:373)e(cid:374)"s: bad: Since 1980s women participation labour has stalled- only nudged up to 7% in last 25 years" vs 60% from end of wwii.
