Week 10 Flashcards
Four categories of household/care work
Housework
childcare
elder care
Kin work
What is Kin work?
Celebrations,’s birthdays, family, gatherings, staying in touch, sharing a Resources, with real and “fictive” kin
Define invisible work
Typically undervalued or unmeasured given:
Location in Home
Lack of financial renumeration
Cultural association with women 
“ social reproduction” is labelled as what type of work
Essential
Household/Care work shapes labour market _______
(And vice versa)
Behaviour
Define work family conflict (WFC)
Inability to meet demands of work and family
What is an example of a work to family conflict?
Late work meetings means late to school pick up
What is an example of a family to work conflict?
A sick child means missing work
WFC can involve what 3 types of conflict
Time based conflict
Behaviour based conflict
Strain based conflict
Define time based conflict
Hours at work interferes with availability for family
Define behaviour based conflict
Incompatible behaviours required for work and family
Define strain based conflict
Strain from one area spills over to the other
Two consequences of WFC
Job satisfaction
Job stress
Two individual approaches to work and family
Segmenters
Integrators
Examples of segmenters
Part time, single, earner, family, Tag Team parenting
Examples of integrators
Teleworking, home-based businesses
What two types of flexibilities has employers provided to address WFC
Temporal flexibility
Spatial flexibility
What two responses from employers to W FC are the most helpful
Flex time
Supportive supervisor
Do employers have a legal obligation to provide leave
Yes
Employee leave benefits are via what
EI
What are the maternity benefits?
Up to 15 weeks at 55% of insurable earnings
Four factors that impact to leave uptake
Eligibility criteria
Length of leave
Nontransferable leave for fathers
Benefit replacement rate
Who takes leave in Canada?
(in terms of men and women)
Women’s still take both of leave, but more men are taking paid and unpaid leaves (3% increase in 2000 and 27% increase in 2012)
Two things that invisible work lacks
Economic value
Pay
Are women still responsible for the second shift?
Yes
Defined the second shift
After working out a paid job, they come home to do household work
(The same work their mothers and grandmothers day does full-time housewives)
What is the sandwich generation?
Informal caregivers juggle elder care with caring for their own children
What portion of Canadian informal caregivers are part of the sandwich generation
Over 1/4
Two types of care that caring for children involves
Instrumental care
Expressive care
Define instrumental care
(And other word)
Feeding dressing bathing
(Caring for)
Define expressive care
(And other word)
Love support and encouragement
(Caring about)
Immigration policies have shaped ______ ______
Population composition
The current immigration system is a _____ base system
Point
List the five entry classes for immigration
Express entry
Family sponsorship
Refugee
Provincial nominees
Temporary
List the six selection factors in the immigration point system
What two factors are the most important in the current immigration system?
(And their points allocation)
Language (28)
Education (25)
Immigration: what is the occupational barrier?
Licensing
Immigration: what does occupational mismatch mean?
Immigrants work in occupations, which underutilize their skills and inhibit earnings potential
Immigration: what is the unmeasured skill deficit?
Language
Are there higher or lower rates of self-employment for immigrants
What about wages?
Higher self employment rates for immigrants
Wage is not necessarily higher in self-employment
Responses to barriers: list the two types of stigma management?
Passing
Covering
Stigma management: define “ passing”
Appear a member of a non-stigmatized group
Stigma management: define “ covering”
Downplay salience of characteristics that foster stigmatization
Recent changes: greater emphasis on ______ ______ in selection for economic class immigrants
Canadian experience
Recent changes, more pathways for students, temporary work permits into ______ ______
(And example)
Permanent residency
(Post graduate work permit)
