Work and Career Experiences

Question 1

How do parents influences (through vocational choice) work and career experience? (3)

Answer 1

1. SES - being able to provide money or not –> may then get a JOB and not a CAREER
2. Will relay to their kids the amount of VALUE that they see in education
3. Serve as role models for how they work (working to live vs living to work)

Question 2

What is unpaid work?

Answer 2

Refers to the work that a person does OUTSIDE of their regular job/career - taking care of fam + household chores

Question 3

True or false : Unpaid work is usually pretty balanced in gay/les couples

Answer 3

True

Question 4

True or false : unpaid work is still seen as women’s work

Answer 4

True, women average 17.5 hours of work whilst men do 10-10.5