AN101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Nanny, Informal Sector, Forced Prostitution

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20 May 2016
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Practices that affect women: the operation of power. Painful rites of passage for males to learn bravery, fearlessness, virility- considered masculine characteristics (machismo) Considered more expendable (protective role in warfare) Societal pressure on men to be a man may impact male identity, create anxieties. 75-79% of food crops produced by women. 2/3 of work done by women but earn 10% of income represent 60% of those who earn less than own 1% of means of production. Feminization of labor: more visibility care work, factory work, it and call centers, sex work, reproductive labor, mines, plantations increasing dependence on women"s wage work casualization of women"s labor exploitable, cheap, low skilled, expendable vertically segregated, docile bodies . Gender cross cut by class& ethnic inequalities. Emergence of new rich in developing countries and middle-class women in the labor force. Remittances alleviates national debts, unemployment at home, contributes to family subsistence.

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