Exam 9: Families, Paid and Unpaid Work: Connecting Households, Workplaces, State Polices, and Communities

Data for the years 1997 to 2012 noted that for the 23 countries with relevant data, there was a significant change in the gendered pattern of the division of unpaid care work.

Women in the ________ generation who are caring for young children as well as the elderly are also likely to work part-time in comparison to men.

Cross-cultural research has clearly demonstrated that many working class households have always required more than the male wage; thus, women have contributed to the maintenance of the household either by intensifying domestic and self-provisioning work inside the home, by earning money through the informal economy, or by earning a wage themselves.

Between 1976 and 2014, Canadian households with stay-at-home mothers decreased by 1 million.

Explain how Canada's Live-In Caregiver Program hardens the boundaries that exist around gender and caring.

Indigenous and ________ women in Canada face the greatest inequalities in the labour market.

Since 2006, the number of Canadian fathers who take parental leave has barely budged, hovering between _____________ per cent for the last decade.

In 2016, Indigenous women working full-time earned ________- cents per dollar earned by non-Indigenous men.

Beginning in the 1970s, Canadian academic studies of gender divisions of labour within the household have collected basically three major types of data on the division of domestic work: time, tasks, and money.

In the past few decades, the employment rate of women with children has remained the same.

Ray Pahl defined "household work strategy" as the distribution of domestic work between household members.

In households with children, the care and upbringing of these children constitute less and less of parent's daily lives as the years go by.

In the ________, a major survey of sociological research on Canadian women pointed out that women's unpaid domestic work in the home had been almost completed ignored.

The term "________" refers to jobs that are part-time or temporary. The self-employed and those working at multiple jobs would also fit into this category.

Many researchers have argued that ________ is the number one life event that marks long-term systemic inequalities between men and women.

Discuss what is meant by "community responsibility".

On average, women spend 3 hours and 44 minutes per day on unpaid work compared to men's 44 minutes.

What are some of the distinctions between household work and child care?

In recent years, the media has given more and more attention to positive and complex stories of stay-at-home fathering and involved fathering.

Why has the standard employment relationship model been used to describe men rather than women?