SOC265H1 Lecture : week 1.docx
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Soc265h1 week1: considering gender differences over time. 1: the bad old days" 1950s, clothing styles. E. g. heels with pointed toes, big hair , corset/girdling middle class women mainly: sexual expression. Risk cross the line , ruin the reputation , risk the pregnancy if girls were sexually active before marriage. Pregnant out of school, send away to have the baby and taken away: employment (sex segregation, marriage bars", earning gap) Jobs were advertise for either men or women. Jobs were different for men and women job segregation. Teaching common middle class white job, but women would quit when married. Factory workers did not face the marriage bar". Women and men married young, usually in teenage age. Have children right away and stay home full time. Latch key children" left alone at home because their moms were at work and they eventually became juvenile delinquencies nasty talk about women in the labour force.