SOSC 1350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Working Poor, Neoliberalism, Nuclear Family
17 Mar 2016
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Charter guarantees certain rights, not others: idea of equality is limited: Lower taxes: pay for university, decrease in quality of high school educaion (parents want to send children to private schools), free health care is no longer free. New social problem: linked to neoliberalism, neoliberalism resulted in: Example: health care (disproporionality afects women) New lexible labour force work transformed into low paid, less secure contractual and temporary work. Both of these factors mean that neoliberalism exacerbates the poverty of women. Most visible indicator = growing homelessness among women. Women = majority of the poor in canada. Linked to divorce rate: the state is not providing necessary services for women, old adage: middle-class women are one man away from the welfare line , over half of lane-parent families headed by women are poor. Poverty rate for women over 65 is more than twice that of men. Unemployed law jusiies poverty by disinguishing between deserving and.
