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

Empirical studies on housework found that generally, women regard their "occupations" as domestic labourers as highly rewarding and diverse.

Describe the rise of non-standard employment.

What does the term "stay-at-home dad" signify? Provide reasons supporting the need to re-think this label.

Indigenous women and racialized women are doubly disadvantaged because they are faced with inequalities in the labour market while still taking on extra shifts of unpaid work.

Quebec's "use-or-lose-it" approach to paternity leave is similar to those in Norway and Sweden.

The term "non-standard employment" is also known as ________

The exertion of parental leave in Canada has led to an increase in fathers' using leave to care for infants. The number of fathers using parental leave has jumped from 3 per cent in 2000 to _____ per cent in 2006.

In 2017, only 13 per cent of adult men in Canada worked part-time compared with _______ per cent of women.

________ can heavily impact household tasks, but has little impact on the caring activities of children and elders.

Canada's ________ program is an example of how women's traditional domain may be passed from one group of women to another.

Discuss the issues surrounding women in the sandwich generation.

There is an increasing pattern whereby lower-class families with some extra funds rely on other lesser-paid women for domestic and child care.

On average, women spend 3 hours and 44 minutes per day on unpaid work compared to men's ________ hours and 28 minutes.

It was not until the ________ that unpaid work was given mention within academic studies and sociology.

Many workers, including those who work part-time and those who are not working the required hours in the year before the birth of their child, are largely excluded from both maternity benefits and parental leave.

Statistics Canada suggests that the proportion of stay-at-home fathers increased seven times between 1976 and 2015.

The distinction between home and work is well-captured in the concept of the "________" which, as defined by Ray Pahl (1984), is how households allocate their collective effort to getting all the work that they define has, or feel needs, to be done.

"Standard employment relationship" is a term describing ________

Discuss Talcott Parson's work on the private and public spheres.

Discuss the issues surrounding housework and child care.