SOC275H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Escalator, Tokenism, Sex Segregation
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Precarious employment: insecure job opportunities and are mostly unstable. This type of a job is not good for the employee because he or she does not have stability or the assurance of working in this position for a long time. This job was introduced mostly for women because they were deemed as unimportant, looking for part time employment to make temporary money and nothing else: these jobs have very limited benefits and security. Sometimes they don"t even have any: it"s a temporary form of work, it is not family friendly because when you have stable employment you have more leverage (daycare, childcare, scheduling, day off, vacations etc. ). When you do not know the future of your employment then you cannot take any of the above advantages: now precarious employment is growing for men too. Gender wage gap: there is a gender wage gap even when you count full time workers.
