Sociology 2235 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Multinational Corporation, Savings Account, Child Poverty
23 Jul 2014
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Effects of economic changes and inequalities on families. Introduction: without understanding the economy we cannot fully grasp the concept of recent family transformations. It is world of mergers, acquisitions, restructuring and downsizing: national economies are dependent upon worldwide financial fluctuations, governments no longer control the labor markets, rather they are now controlled by the. Individual returning home to their parents boomerang kids. Woman also often receive lower wages and suffer from the glass ceiling in their work environment preventing them from rising to the top. 1970 a wave of woman s movement lead to the liberalization of attitudes concerning woman s role in society. Woman now penetrated male dominated occupational fields such a law, medicine and physical sciences. Quebec and maritime provinces and the highest level of maternal employment and the prairies had the lowest numbers. Woman now delay childbirth by at least one year in order to earn high salaries in the prime of their career.
