Ch. 8/9 Flashcards
Standard employment relationship/ male model of working life
worker has a continuous full time employment with the same on site employer for all or most of their working life
Effect of pandemic on women’s work
went to a historic low, lowest in 30 years
Factors contributing to the gender wage gap
traditional “women’s work” pays less than trad mens work, more women than men work part time due to childbearing and home responsibilities, radicalized women/Indigenous women/ and women with disabilities are discriminated against in employment, and most women are employed in lower wage occupations
Non-standard/contigent/temporary/precarcious employment
part time or temp work
Unpaid work dimensions
housework (not universal or homogenous), childcare,
Famial work
childcare and housework are usually performed for other household members and therefore may be viewed as familial work
Community responsibility
extra-domestic, community based responsibilities for children
Parsons, private vs public sphere
private: women working in the home
public: men doing paid work
Problems with the dichotomy between private and public spheres
in low income households, many women have always worked outside the home
separation between home and work doesn’t nessecarily exist: work at home has to be done so work outside the home can be done
Household work strategy concept
how households allocate their collective effort to getting ask the work they define has, or feels needs, to be done
combines domestic work, work in the economy in informal or voluntary economy, and paid employment in the formal economy
Social reproduction and families
activities required to ensure day to day generational survival
“Free ride” in society
the entire benefits from well raised children without sharing more than a fraction of the costs of producing them: benefit from women’s unpaid labour
Modified house-wife role
nannies that do the childcare while other women do more socially valuable work
Gender ideologies
set of social beliefs about men and women’s roles and relationships in varied social institutions
gig economy
