chapter 6 (2) Flashcards
what is Canada ranked overall for gender equality?
24
benchmarks gender- based gaps in economic participation and
opportunity, educational attainment,
health, survival, and political
empowerment
The World Economic Forum Global
Gender Gap Index
What is canadas 26th biggest city?
Windsor
what is Windsor ranked as one of the worst places to live as a women
20th
ranking the best and worst places to be a
woman in Canada
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
- Gender equality is not just about
cisgender men and women. - We also have to consider the
experiences of transgender, gender
expansive, and gender non-binary
people.
Gender Inequality - definition
Formal equality
- Treating men and women the same to achieve the same results
- Gender blind approach
Substantive equality
Treating men and women differently to achieve comparable results
- Gendered approach
Policies that (on the surface) appear gender neutral and treat men and women the same ignore the
very unequal contexts of women’s lives that may disparately impact the benefits that they are able to receive from a program
ex) Canadian Pension Plan
- do nothing to address the underlying gender division of labor that contributes to women’s inequality
- focus on “families” rather than on “women” (more on that in part b)
- However, the good of the “family” is not necessarily synonymous with the good (or equality) of the individuals
within the family (particularly women)
Social Welfare Policies
However, the good of the “family” is not necessarily synonymous with the good (or equality) of the individuals
within the family (particularly women)
true or false
true
who are more likely to be social workers? men or women?
women
who are most to be
consumers of social services
women
Historically, women became involved in the provision of social welfare due to their…
relegated gender roles in society as “nurturers”
belief that women, due to their special nurturing qualities, had an obligation to
transfer these qualities into the public sphere to help nurture others.
Maternal feminism
women are more likely to
be poor than men for a variety of
structural reasons and processes
Feminization of poverty
Today _________________ of women (64.7%) work full time
2/3
As more women moved into the paid labour market,
the amount of domestic labour they continued to perform in the home did not fall (rather, they were now simply doing both).
nvolves activities that have a monetary value when conducted by someone outside of the home (e.g.,
paying a babysitter, a housekeeper, etc.)
Includes things like housework, cooking, caring for children; also includes things like emotional labor, the mental load, and kin work.
care work
care work is upaid labor when…
done by those in the home (usually women)
Women remain concentrated in
positions _____________ in the
paid labor market that mirror the tasks
that they perform in the home (child-
care, nursing assistants, teachers,
social workers, service industry, etc.)
- These positions are often _________
and ___________ compared to the
positions that ______________
outside of the home, de-valued,underpaid, men dominant
More children today are being raised in __________ with __________
dual earner famillies, two working parents
________ of same sex couples in
Canada are married and ___________
same sex couples are raising children
one third, one in eight
Other definitions focus on what “the
members of the families do for each
other and the larger society” (p. 188)
- Commitment to each other over time
and shared activities
Famillies
It isn’t just children that need care in families but rather…
older adults and others with health challenges
Models of the family
- Patriarchal model
- Individual responsibility Model
- Social Responsibility Model
people do not just need supports to help care for children but to also…
engage in a wider range of
care giving activities in the home
True or false: Despite the movement from maternity leave to “parental leave”, most parents
who take leave are still women
true
Model of an independent family that is responsible for it’s own well-being (economic and otherwise)
ex) mom = inside jobs, dad = outside jobs
Patriarchal Model
Shift from gendered assumptions to gender neutrality (but still grounded in the idea that individual families should be responsible for their own well-being)
Individual Responsibility Model
Nine out of ten ‘standard’ parental
leave beneficiaries are _______
women
Regards the well-being of the individual, rather than the family unit.
Social Responsibility Model
what province is an exception for leaves?
Quebec
In 2017, many fathers in Quebec were taking leave, compared with of fathers in the rest of the country who….
who barely took leaves
Childcare
Family decisions regarding:
- When and how many children to have
- Division of care work between parents
- Participation in paid work
there are huge variations across provinces in regards to:
Types of child care and early education programs
- Affordability and accessibility of those programs
- Quality of those programs
Men are more likely to take parental leave when
it comes with a substantial level of income replacement
Research in other countries with paternity leave have shown that when income replacement rates rise…
the percentage of fathers taking leave also rises.
collapse existing child benefit programs into a new enhanced income transfer called:
Canada Child Benefit (CCB)
With the creation of the CCB, federal spending on child benefits immediately increased (t or f)
true
THE CCB PROGRAM…
made it more generous for low-and middle- income households, and less generous for higher-income households, with the richest household receiving nothing.
CCB is less generous to those who need it most (t or f)
false
how do you receive CCB
you must file income taxes
those living in shelters and indigenous people living in remote communities can…
miss out on CCB
CCB was created by
Justin Trudeau, federal goverment
