SOSC 1510 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Krahn People, Intersectionality

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1510
• Professor: David Langille

Document Summary

6, "gender and paid employment", pp 173-200 and 208-213. Women at work: working towards equity pg. 173: women have made strong gains in the workplace. Gender and work in historical context: women have always performed a vital, yet somewhat unacknowledged economic role, back them, the family was the basic production unit, in which women played a key role. This shows that women always performed pivotal roles, quite different from men. In this role, wives stretched the wages of male family members and. Reading notes single daughters as far as possible, occasionally supplementing this by turning to neighbours or charities for help. Gender and labour force participation rates: all industrialized nations have experienced rising female labour force participation rates since the end of ww2. Influences and intersectionality in women"s and men"s employment: q - what social and economic factors account for this remarkable increase in canada"s female labour participation, a - there was no single cause.