Political Science 3317F/G Lecture Notes - Double Burden, Wage Labour, Corporate Capitalism

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Shift in clerical work from male to female workers; continued occupational. Improved work conditions for all workers with small children. Rise in average age of women workers, more married women and women. Rising real wages made waged work attractive o o. Increase in education for women & decrease in fulfilment level found in housework; impact of women"s movement, other social movements o. Necessary to maintain real income of families service work. Drop in relative importance of women"s factory work, rise in importance of. Higher wages for workers; still have gender wage gap. 2 because of double day tasks so double commitments: legislation re workplace, benefits, pensions, etc, lack of availability of daycare & other structural level support for women"s lived experiences. Ideology about women"s place vs. men"s place - a number of influential myths about gender, family & waged work. Identify important myths about women and work, both in the family and waged.

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