SOC365H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Informal Sector, Glass Ceiling, Occupational Segregation
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Womeni n canada make about 72 cents on the dollar relative to men: # 5 out of 29 out of largest wage gap in the world. There is a structure to any given market and within markets there are promotion ladders. Within those, women tend to be overrepresented in promotion ladders that are truncated where they don"t lead to much mobility if they lead to mobility at all. Labor markets are designed in a way where women are disadvantaged from the outset: human capital. Hours spent at the job, skills they bring to the job, job experience, education. Theory here is that women relative to men, have less human capital: ex. Men have more job experience, education, committed to working longer hours. Ties with upper management of a company: these people can do things for you. Social capital is about socially connected to others how have some significance, importance, authority in the realm in which you are interacting.
