ANT335H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Working Time, Tomboy
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Gender relates to the economy through owning private property. Private property = things that allow for production. Private property controls production and is majorly owned by men. Women can only produce for the household; domestic production. Sacks argues: the current economic system organizes work at home to be woman"s work (child care, cleaning, cooking, unpaid labour). Women moved into the work force but men did not move into the family care sector. The double shift ; paid waged labour and unpaid domestic labour. Looking at work places that are stereotypically masculinized work. People minimize gender differences and how kinship is still practised in the coal mines. Women dominate small scale mining in the developing world. Her ethnographic research showed that gender difference was not important in the work place. Feminists of the 20th century: gaining access to the work place = gaining equality. * middle class movement to gain middle class access to the work place.
