SOC 371 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Dual Mandate, Carpentry, Double Standard
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In mad men and office ladies article, men referred to secretaries as girls : grouped them together, took away their individuality, treated like children, women don"t have a model of lifetime employment. Industrial revolution: takes place over a long period of time, creates separate spheres, prior to factories, people mostly did farming work. Domesticated animals, we made the things we needed. Jobs weren"t distinctly gendered: how did men"s work become more valuable", during industrial revolution, women can"t vote, own property, etc. White families were able to live on one person"s wage: black women had to work, earned a lot less than men, poor families get stuck in a cycle. Why do we create unions: job security, women and people of color were not welcome, hard to get a job if you weren"t in a union, public campaigns to limit child labor because they threatened unions.
