SOC 2104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Sex Segregation, Fide, Tokenism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2104
• Professor: Adolphine Y.Aggor- Boateng

Document Summary

Separate and unequal: the gendered world of work. The percentage of women working rose from 16. 2% in 1911 to over 62% by. By 2003 more than 80% of women in the 25 54 age group were working. Women with children at home are one of the fastest-growing groups in the labour force. Necessity: there is increasing representation of women in managerial positions, today the norm for families is dual-earners. You need both incomes in todays society. The persistence of gender ideologies: male breadwinner/female housewife model still believed in by north. Americans, though this ideology does not fit the world we live in. Leads to dissatisfaction for men: since the early 19th century, work was part of the definition of manhood. Women(cid:495)s work in the 20th century was largely auxiliary work that made the masculine world run smoothly. Ignores the real experience of working for women. Women still discriminated against, men bewildered by workplace harassment policies.