SOC227H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Labor Market Segmentation, Wage Labour, Catherine Hakim
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Michael selmi and sonia weil: white male traders relied on abor. Women as interpreters, prepare food, clean pelts: gender remains key determinant of inequality in our society. Suggesting that change may not be as dramatic as rosin claims. Despite gains by some women: men worked on fields, women looked after domestic work, argued that women were rapidly displacing men. Hanna rosin"s book the end of men. In canada share of adult women in the paid workforce has jumped from 1/3 in 1970 to nearly. Men"s jobs continue to be more lucrative and prestigious jobs: women"s fit employment around family duties, argues persistence of traditional gender patterns in workplace, great deal of women"s work continues to be undervalued and poorly rewarded. In the past women have always performed a vital, unacknowledged and economic role. Aboriginal women fur trade industry during colonial period. During 19th century family was the production unit. Cohen"s feminist analysis of economic development 19th century.
