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

During the COVID-19 pandemic, women's employment went, between February and July 2020, from being at a historic high to its lowest in _______________ years.

Mothers are now able to spend less time supervising their children with the aid of technological devices.

While housework can easily be put on hold, child care does not offer the same level of flexibility to caregivers.

The term "standard employment relationship" means that a worker has continuous, full-time employment with the same on-site employer for all or most of his/her working life.

"________" refers to a set of social beliefs about men and women's roles and relationships in varied social institutions.

Having children is the single life event that most profoundly marks long-term systemic inequality between women and men.

Discuss the difference between community and inter-household work.

Margrit Eichler called attention to Canadian women's unpaid domestic work with a landmark survey in the mid-1970s.

Men have shared their traditional breadwinning role, but have yet to take up an equal amount of child-care responsibilities.

While heterosexual married couples still account for the dominant family form in Canada, these families are gradually on the wane, while other household types are on the rise. Short

What are the pros and cons of the parental leave policy in Canada?

Ann Crittenden argues that every major institution in society benefits from ________, while sharing only a fraction of the cost.

Women in the sandwich generation are more likely than men to work part-time as a result of child care or elder care responsibilities.

Although men have increasingly come to appreciate the importance of work-family balance, most of the balancing or juggling of home and work continues to fall on women.

Housework is a universal and homogeneous category that is typical in all family forms.

Since the 1970s, Canadian studies of gendered household labour have mostly collected data on ________

Why do gender differences in unpaid work make a difference to men?

Women's earnings in Canada continue to be less than those of men.

Discuss Talcott Parsons's notion of complementary spheres and gender divisions in sociology. Identify the several problems with this dichotomy between home and work and paid and unpaid work.

According to the Canadian Women's Foundation (2017), most women are employed in all of the following sectors except ________