SOCIOL 2R03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Nancy F. Cott, Gender Inequality, Masculinity

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCIOL 2R03
• Professor: Lina Samuel

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Causes of female participation rate changes: both immediate and underlying causes, immediate causes of lfp changes, 60s and 70s availability of more jobs, policy issues, 80s more women with preschool children entering lf. Rise in education: new policies (around childcare, representation by trade unions, 90s leveling of due to recession, 2000 rise in economic opportunities. Gender and earnings (part 2 of lecture: ear(cid:374)i(cid:374)gs ratio: (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)(cid:859)s a(cid:448)erage or (cid:373)edia(cid:374) ear(cid:374)i(cid:374)gs (cid:271)(cid:455) (cid:373)e(cid:374)s, earnings: total money you make in a given period (usually a year, wages (your hourly rate, manufacturing. (remember though that the manufacturing industry in ontario has been suffering: service sector. Full-time, full-year workers in the 20 highest-paying occupations, canada, 2010. And other ones in lecture: pay gap over the life span of a woman, pay gap within occupations, men out earn women in almost all occupations. She works hard for the (cid:373)o(cid:374)ey: household respo(cid:374)si(cid:271)ilities a(cid:374)d the allo(cid:272)atio(cid:374) of effort(cid:863)(cid:271)(cid:455) biel(cid:271)(cid:455) a(cid:374)d.