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  1. These slides are meant to help students think about the material. They are not meant to replace reading the material or taking notes. Using these slides as your only means of garnering information could harm your ability to understand the content of this class. Please turn off cell phones, MP3 players and other technology of which I’m unaware. Please Note:

  2. Chapter 3: Families and Work • 1) Social Construction of Devaluing Work in the Home: • A) In agricultural economies, work and home were not separate. Work was interrelated (wheat as an example). Men and Women worked long, hard hours. Children worked as well.

  3. A) Continuation: • In agricultural and HG societies, men and women’s work were perceived as integral to each other…….why? • Women’s work in industrial economies have increased with technological inventions. • How?

  4. 1) Social Construction of Devaluing Work in the Home: B) Today, we tend to devalue work in the home and over- value work for pay. Evidence: new welfare laws; babysitting, divorce and whose money is it?, housecleaning, daycare.

  5. Why don’t we value such work? • Perceive it as unskilled • Don’t consider it as contributing to society’s survival • Women are supposed to be responsible for it.

  6. Work in the home contributes to society: • Perpetuates present workforce • Perpetuates future workforce.

  7. Chapter 3: Families and Work • 2) Social Construction of the Private/Public Split • A) Absence of families is seen as norm of the workplace • Workplace commitment means you put work first. Who can do this? Why?

  8. 2) Social Construction of the Private/Public Split • B) Problems with the P/P split: • Lower productivity at work • Family conflict • Misunderstanding feminization of poverty

  9. Chapter 3: Families and Work • 1) Solutions: • A) FMLA and solutions in other countries • Sweden:90% pay for 12 months, split between parents; unpaid leave until 18 months; 6 hours day until kid is 8. • France: 100% pay 6 weeks before and 10 weeks after; free daycare, 2 years job protection. • Germany: 100% pay 6 weeks before and 4/5 months after. Flat wage for every mother. Job protection for 1 year. • All European countries have 35 hour work week, free medical care and at least 4 weeks paid vacation. B) Flex Time, shared work; block schedules, job sharing.

  10. Second Shift and Feeding the Family • Important Concepts: • Gender Ideology, Gender Identity, Gender Strategy 2) Leisure Gap 3) Family Myth 4) Invisible Work 5) Work/Love dichotomy

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