SOC263H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Nanny, Human Capital, Parenting Styles
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Since there is a cultural component, there is flexible they can change and reverse quickly. Unemployment of women upper class status symbol. Neo-conservative movements, men social movements, go back to traditional, women back to subordinate role and men being the head of the family. Aspects of familial inequality: division of household labour. Time until 2000, canadian women spent twice the time that men spent on household labour. Most of this approximation was due to women spending less time on house work not to men spending more. Many couples have fairly equal division of labour until they have children. Younger, better educated, and couples with equal personal incomes are the most likely to have an equal division of household labour. Tasks: men-flexible and somewhat discretionary tasks; do what can be postponed (mowing the lawn, garbage); women routine, repetitive and inflexible tasks; organization of household labour ( default carers ) Inequality in child care has decreased more than inequality in other tasks.
