SOCIOL 2R03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Masculinity, Nancy F. Cott, Family Wage
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Masculinity as both privilege and vulnerability: it is a category of privilege. Women in the canadian house of commons since 1984. Women holding 9. 6% of seats in 1984 to still only 22. 1% of seats in 2008. 156/ 2017:169-174: socialized to see life in politics are undesirable, self perception that they are under-qualified, women also under-rep in upper echelons of power (institutions, adversarial and combative nature of the work. Women candidates and women elected, by party, 2008 and 2006 canadian federal. Created two distinctions between men and women"s work (gave rise to the family wage and pushed men and women into different jobs segregated labour market: ideology of the separate spheres. Working class women couldn"t be apart of the cult of domesticity because they had to work for others doing chores to make a wage. Women"s labour force participation: causes of female participation rate changes. Immediate causes of lfp changes: 60s and 70s availability of more jobs.
