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Work and Family

Work and Family. Chapter 9. Male privilege. Invisible advantage bestowed upon men. Work and family. Agriculture Industrialization. Ideology of separate spheres. Women’s place should be in the home (private) and men’s place should be in the workplace (public) Instrumentality

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Work and Family

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  1. Work and Family Chapter 9

  2. Male privilege • Invisible advantage bestowed upon men

  3. Work and family • Agriculture • Industrialization

  4. Ideology of separate spheres • Women’s place should be in the home (private) and men’s place should be in the workplace (public) • Instrumentality • Expressiveness

  5. Gender in the Workplace • Institutional discrimination • Wage gap • 1963 – Equal Pay Act • 1964 – Civil Rights Act • Mommy tax • Occupational segregation

  6. Dual-Earner Households • Data • Demands

  7. FMLA • Family Medial Leave Act of 1993

  8. Coping strategies • Dual • Time • shifts • Single • 2nd jobs • networks

  9. Domestic Division of Labor • Unpaid • Feeding • Housework • Kin work • Consumption work

  10. Second shift • Women still doing the lion’s share of child and home care responsibilities

  11. Perceptions of inequity • Gender ideology and domestic work • Social exchange and household inequity

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