POLI 1100 Lecture Notes - Double Burden, Labour Power
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Hh says that it has shifted in north america, but definitely not radically. Shifted in a way that: equal amounts of men and women entering medical and law schools, women certainly approaching men in parity in some respects (but not always treated equally in law firms and medical practices) Child-rearing and housework were typically unpaid labour: women are doing a lot of work but when its limited to housework, they are doing work that they don"t get paid for, only one spouse is working for wages. Two working spouses/partners often face a different situation because they pay others to do housework. First, men have better jobs in the labor market and earn higher wages then women. The lower pay women receive in the labor market both perpetuates men"s material advantage over women and encourages women to choose wifery as a career. Second, then women do housework, childcare, and perform other services at home which benefit men directly.
