SOSC 3130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Gender Pay Gap, Truck Driver, Gender Inequality
3 May 2019
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Gender of work (verb), gender assumption; how much work is valued in society. Many people feel like it"s a gender equable world; reality = no. Television, movies: women are portrayed as the leader, but aggressive and masculine; to portray as men. In real world, women are seldom leaders, rarely earn same wage as men, seldom treated just like men. Gender inequality is much more realistic view of women. Deep gender divide in the work men and women do: horizontal segregation, men and women work in different jobs and sectors (trades, mining, firefighter. [manual jobs] vs nurses, education, teacher: arm to arm (left vs right; men vs women, vertical segregation, segregation within the same occupation (top vs lower of the same occupation, head (men) to feet (women) 97% of men are truck drivers vs. 97% of women are caregivers (horizontal segregation) Horizontal segregation pay gap: truck driver median pay (k, caregiver median pay (k)
