WSTA01H3 Lecture Notes - Marxist Feminism, Flextime

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Affirmative action to ensure gender balances a lawsuits charging discrimination against women in hiring, promotion, and salaries. Helped women into higher education, the professions of law and medicine, the sciences, and all sorts of workplaces, from large-scale corporate to coal mines. Sexism still present in workplace; men hold top positions. Gender segregation in jobs: men and women have natural talents. Gatekeeping, the glass ceiling, and gendered job queues: Gatekeeping: explains how most women are kept from getting to the top in occupations and professions dominated by men. Glass ceiling: assumes that women have the motivation, ambition, and capacity for positions of power and prestige, but hidden barriers keep them from reaching the top. Women of colour have had to face both racism and sexism. Gendered job queues: best jobs are kept for men of the dominant racial and ethnic group.

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