SOCY 122 Chapter : Gender and Work

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 122
• Professor: Rob Beamish

Document Summary

4 important changes in work patterns of the labour force in. Led to other changes: how men and women are perceived, elimination of discrimination, changes in family and relations of domestic labour, development of ways in which children can be supported when parents work. These would have to change for men and women to assume equal share of domestic labour. Wanted women to take part in the paid workforce. Middle class women viewed the situation from other women from their privileged standpoint. Primary goal was to open access to the professions: medicine, teaching, and church. Middle class women were less supportive of working class women. They also lacked resources to act on their own behalf. One of the greatest barriers to gender inequalities was the image of women and how it differed from men. Argued that women"s physical abilities were equal to that of men: challenges to the image of women and physical capabilities came from 2 fronts.