Gender and Precarious Labour Flashcards
1
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Job segregation
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Significant causes of the pay gap between the sexes
Paying different sexes differnetly for doing roughy the same job
2
Q
Precarious Work
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Employment situations that differ from the traditional model of a stable, full time job
Employment insecurity is an essential aspect of the definition of non-standard work
3
Q
Neo-liberalism
A
The process of restructuring and global economic downturns have impacted labour
The trickle-down effect of wealth, deregulation and deunionization
4
Q
Gendered wage gap
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Labour force segregation is a key element in the gender wage gap
Jobs where women predominate tend to be lower paid than jobs where men predominate
Regardless of the educational, job responsibilities, and skill requirements
