WS102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Canada Women'S National Soccer Team, Informal Sector, Ethnocentrism
11 Apr 2018
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Pay inequality available jobs: motherhood: gender normative - cis. Gender differences in paid and unpaid labour even though men and women are seen working similar jobs their net worth isn"t the same. !2 they are economically tied to their husband: gender ideals: women are more naturally nurturing they would be better suited with children. Ideal: wants to have children: motherhood vs career cant merge. Ideology of the ideal woman is counter to the ideology of the ideal worker . The motherhood penalty disadvantages that women who are mothers encounter in the workplace if you"ve already had children lower work ethic less dependable less authoritative. Comprises a large portion of the gender wage gap in general: gap between women who have children and those who don"t is bigger than the gap between men and women large part of the gender gap = children. According to statistics canada women, on average, spend more hours a day doing unpaid labour than men.
