WS100 Lecture 6: Week 8 T - Feb 28
YWCA mentors
Work
● Ontario govt currently looking at workplace policies and laws and considering updates -
growing precarity (part time/contract work - no benefits)
● Women in Canada in full time permanent work are still making 72 cents for a dollar that
a man makes - less for minorities
● Women have been segregated in workforce for more than 100 years
● Young women still get most work in service industry - lowest pay and most insecure
work
● Women who ask for raise etc are seen as too ambitious
● Men’s voices viewed as more important - taught to dominate/talk loudly, women learn to
applaud this
● Indigenous women engaged in politics of own communities and working, transferred
their knowledge onto early pioneering women in Canada
● Women view themselves as weaker
● Rise of industrialization changes patriarchy - women who were active in family and
community lives are cut - public and private created - white women told to stay inside,
menstruation/birth makes them fragile
● Indigenous women/women of colour not allowed in factories - only white men and some
white immigrant women who are allowed because they are not middle class, called
unskilled work
● Working women seen as not good people because they aren’t serving men and children
● Women penalized in these workplaces more than men
● Young women pushed into teaching, but only teaching young kids because they have
“nurturing capacities” and that men teach older children
● Men teaching young children labelled as gay or pedophiles
● Women fight for status that their teaching comes from knowledge not biological
determinant
● Same idea that nurses just know how to take care of people - nurses have medical
knowledge, but for most of 20th century that isn’t recognized
● Men seen as more capable in medical field - would talk to a male nurse first
● Men promoted faster than women
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Document Summary
Ontario govt currently looking at workplace policies and laws and considering updates - growing precarity (part time/contract work - no benefits) Women in canada in full time permanent work are still making 72 cents for a dollar that a man makes - less for minorities. Women have been segregated in workforce for more than 100 years. Young women still get most work in service industry - lowest pay and most insecure work. Women who ask for raise etc are seen as too ambitious. Men"s voices viewed as more important - taught to dominate/talk loudly, women learn to applaud this. Indigenous women engaged in politics of own communities and working, transferred their knowledge onto early pioneering women in canada. Rise of industrialization changes patriarchy - women who were active in family and community lives are cut - public and private created - white women told to stay inside, menstruation/birth makes them fragile.
