WEEK 3 - Socio-economic Location & Neo-Liberalism Flashcards
Women, Class, Race, and Poverty
Women earn, on average 66.7 cents for $1 men
In 2014, Canada gender income gap was 7th highest out of 34 OECD member countries
Pay gap affects marginalized and low-income women the most (intersectionality)
Impact of COVID-19 on Women’s Poverty
Almost 350,000 Canadian women who lost their jobs during the pandemic did not return to work as of Feb 2021
Most job loss is concentrated in low wage occupations where women make up more than half those employed
The Consequences of Women’s Poverty
Impacts the ability to leave an abusive partner
Impacts the capacity of children to realize their potential
Impacts the well-being of the Canadian community
Why are Women Poorer than Men?
The decline of welfare states
The rise of neoliberalism
Bias against some populations in the labour market
The gender-segregated labour market
What is Neoliberalism?
“a philosophy of unfettered market, deregulation, and privatization”
Is based on the understanding that human-well being can be best advanced by liberating individual entrepreneurial freedoms and skills within an institutional framework
Strong private property rights, free markets, free trade
Implications of Neoliberalism?
Deregulation of industry
Proacted war on organized labour
Lower taxes for corporation
Tattered social sefty net
Burden on individuals and community organization
In the 1980s: Why Decline of the Welfare State?
Seen as too costly (by the right) and too regulatory (by the left)
Starting to see “austerity measures”
What is Austerity?
Packaged narrative that reducing public costs will lessen the tax burden and thereby stimulate commerce, and eventually the wealth earned by corporations will trickle down in the form of increased jobs and stimulated economy for the benefit of all
Impacts of Austerity Measures?
shaped by intersecting social location, including gedner, class, ethnicity…etc.
Policies have been designed in such a way that targets the most vulnerable and marginal groups in society (hitting them harder than any others)
Protect the wealthy, the policies at working-class household haves barely touched elites
Structural Violence Defined
violence resulting from and facilitated through social structures and institutions that create entrenched inequality , systematically undermining the ability of individuals to realize their potential
Example of Structural Violence
The case of Kimberly Rogers
> received both welfare and student loans (legal at the time)
> both loans at the same time became illegal and forced her to pay $13000 back
> left with a little money each month after paying rent
sentenced to six months of house arrest
> commit suicide in 2001, after disputing the fraud conviction
