SOCIOL 2U06 Lecture Notes - Pink-Collar Worker, Social Forces, Criminology
31 Oct 2013
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How is it that most men and women take on traditional roles within the family: not to say that there aren"t marriages where couples are sharing housework and caregiving. Kathleen gerson: books: hard choices (on women and work), no man"s land (men"s paid labour) Found girls learn how to care for others. Policed to care : enforced upon them to care for others, really pressured. Caring for others comes before thinking of oneself: discussion: are girls socialized to put others first, dr. c"s studies of family finances. Women were socialized to put others" economic needs ahead of their own. Learned this from their mothers, from other new-mothers/wives. As a consequence, wives had lower levels of personal spending (as compared to husbands) Were able to constrain their personal spending in relation to their husband"s. Female socialization as caretakers explain these roles. Gerson: hard choices - study of women: look for other explanation besides primary gender socialization.
