SOSC 3130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Informal Sector, Social Inequality, Weaning
3 May 2019
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Sex discrimination at work a focus on clothing retail. Retail largest employer: youthful workforce. Sex/gender-based discrimination: universally seen regardless of age, race, etc. Should not be asked: can only ask for verification after giving an offer, age discrimination, graduation date. Illegal to ask if you have children or plan to have children: usually asking female, not permitted, finding in us, canada, eu: women have child, would never make a partnership in a law firm. Canada does not have civil rights act but human rights act. Women act like men/masculine, should be equal". Sexist double standards: still not accepted as equal. Sexism pervades in workplace: men and women can and should treat each other as equal, societal issue. Aesthetic labour in clothing retail: the right aesthetic is middle class, conventionally gendered and typically white (p. 234 kit, williams & connell) Us equal employment opportunity commission: filed complaint against abercrombie and fitch, violated title vii of civil rights act"s protective grounds religious.
