SOCY 336 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Canadian Human Rights Act, Canada Labour Code, Unemployment Insurance Act 1920
8 Mar 2017
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Industrialization and the gender dol: public sphere: paid work, private sphere: domestic life. Contemporary trends legal rights: 1971 canada labour code, 1971 unemployment insurance act, 1972- minimum wage legislation, 1978 canadian human rights act. Gender stratification within occupations: horizontal versus vertical segregation, glass ceiling. Women"s non-traditional" work: defined in two ways: 1. numerical: raw numbers, women make up the minority of workers. Teaching was once a non-traditional job but changed. Case study: women"s entrance into non-traditional" jobs can have several different outcomes (reskin and roos, 1990: 1. integration: proportionally represented across jobs, where women get equal rewards as men. Ideal: 2. ghettoization: get jobs but different areas pr specialties than men, 3. resegregation: women move from the minority to the majority and eventually the job becomes feminized. Ghettoization in medicine in canada: what traits make someone a good family doctor? connection to patients, what traits make someone a good surgeon? precision, skill and knowledge.
