WMST 1000 Study Guide - Final Guide: Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Nuclear Family, Social Inequality
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The economy, the legal system, and family systemaically reinforce women"s subordinaion. Although women have made enormous poliical and legal strides in the 20th century, more women in the workforce has meant neither equality nor an end to poverty. Types of employment (i. e. service, sales, and clerical jobs) Increasingly have to work more than one job. Sill hold more responsibility for the family, lose income and career opportuniies. 4: globalizaion means tradiional manufacturing jobs moved overseas, disproporionately represented in minimum wage jobs, do not occupy unionized posiions in the same numbers as men. Women have achieved formal equality, but not substanive equality. Inlexible workplaces: marriage remains an unequal inancial partnership, unpaid care of family members and dependents is not considered work . Those who take on work that resembles the tasks performed by mothers are also undervalued. Both the family and the global economy are free riding when it comes to motherhood o.