SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Vacuum Cleaner, Domestic Worker, Virginity Test
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Lecture 7 - recruiting women as domestic worker. Gender stratification and racial stratification, women bear the imprint of their gender scripts and sex typing of occupation, occupations are changing, as pharmaceutical is partially feminized and sociology is almost completely feminized, Women who move to destination country and their job would almost reflect the job gendered feature. Ppl seen suitable for job due to racial and gender reason. Usually migrated women hired by other working women in the destination country. and b/c of they work in home, ends up an exploitative relationship and is based on class & unequal power relations. Employer holds the key to economic resources and so migrants have no say. These women from philippine often work for upper-middle class women in canada often treated as if they are not in same class and retained. Domestic workers aboard: racialized selection of workers e. g. in asian country, filipino over.
