SOC275H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Veterinary Medicine, Longitudinal Study, Fide
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Separate and unequal: the gendered world of work. Main topics of the day: shifting notions of gender and work, gendering work, gender segregation, gender discrimination, persisting masculine norm: motherhood penalty / second shift. The changing gender composition of the labor force: the percentage of women working: 16. 2% in 1911 to more than 62% in. 2008 (between age 25-54, more than 80% in 2003: shift from the male breadwinner model to the dual-earner couple. The rise of precarious work and the feminization of labor: from standard employment relationship (family wage, benefits, long-term contract) to precarious work, the rise of precarious work since the 1970s: currently one third of. Canadian jobs are precarious, and 40% of women (and 29% of men) fit this category: precarious work is actually not family friendly. Glass ceiling: often leading to vertical segregation. Invisible discrimination against women in hiring, promotion, and retention.
