Sociology 2241E Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Visible Minority, New York City Fire Department, Occupational Segregation
10 Apr 2017
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Summary: supply vs. demand: a number of sources of gender inequality at work, draws attention to micro and macro level sources of inequality, distinguish between employee based and economic/organizational/employer based sources of inequality. Intersectional frameworks: looks at different axis of inequality: the matrix of domination (collins, 1990, 4 components, empirical research. Other explanations: the interconnected relationship between work and family, example: the second shift, disadvantages women because they are engaging in the unpaid work. Summary: supply side explanations, demand side explanations. *** queuing theory (cid:894)e(cid:373)plo(cid:455)e(cid:396)(cid:859)s p(cid:396)efe(cid:396)e(cid:374)(cid:272)es(cid:895) is the most significant. Discrimination and harassment taking the heat: the first women firefighters of new york city. In 1982, one woman took on the entire new york city fire department - and won. For the first time in the (cid:272)it(cid:455)(cid:859)s histo(cid:396)(cid:455), (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374) (cid:272)ould joi(cid:374) the fo(cid:396)(cid:272)e as firefighters: addresses the experiences of discrimination for women and people of colour.
