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chapter 6 (2) Flashcards

1
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what is Canada ranked overall for gender equality?

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benchmarks gender- based gaps in economic participation and
opportunity, educational attainment,
health, survival, and political
empowerment

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The World Economic Forum Global
Gender Gap Index

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3
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What is canadas 26th biggest city?

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Windsor

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what is Windsor ranked as one of the worst places to live as a women

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20th

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5
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ranking the best and worst places to be a
woman in Canada

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Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

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  • Gender equality is not just about
    cisgender men and women.
  • We also have to consider the
    experiences of transgender, gender
    expansive, and gender non-binary
    people.
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Gender Inequality - definition

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Formal equality

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  • Treating men and women the same to achieve the same results
  • Gender blind approach
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Substantive equality

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Treating men and women differently to achieve comparable results
- Gendered approach

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Policies that (on the surface) appear gender neutral and treat men and women the same ignore the

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very unequal contexts of women’s lives that may disparately impact the benefits that they are able to receive from a program
ex) Canadian Pension Plan

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  • do nothing to address the underlying gender division of labor that contributes to women’s inequality
  • focus on “families” rather than on “women” (more on that in part b)
  • However, the good of the “family” is not necessarily synonymous with the good (or equality) of the individuals
    within the family (particularly women)
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Social Welfare Policies

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However, the good of the “family” is not necessarily synonymous with the good (or equality) of the individuals
within the family (particularly women)
true or false

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true

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12
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who are more likely to be social workers? men or women?

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women

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who are most to be
consumers of social services

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women

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14
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Historically, women became involved in the provision of social welfare due to their…

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relegated gender roles in society as “nurturers”

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belief that women, due to their special nurturing qualities, had an obligation to
transfer these qualities into the public sphere to help nurture others.

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Maternal feminism

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16
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women are more likely to
be poor than men for a variety of
structural reasons and processes

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Feminization of poverty

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17
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Today _________________ of women (64.7%) work full time

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2/3

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18
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As more women moved into the paid labour market,

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the amount of domestic labour they continued to perform in the home did not fall (rather, they were now simply doing both).

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nvolves activities that have a monetary value when conducted by someone outside of the home (e.g.,
paying a babysitter, a housekeeper, etc.)
Includes things like housework, cooking, caring for children; also includes things like emotional labor, the mental load, and kin work.

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care work

20
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care work is upaid labor when…

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done by those in the home (usually women)

21
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Women remain concentrated in
positions _____________ in the
paid labor market that mirror the tasks
that they perform in the home (child-
care, nursing assistants, teachers,
social workers, service industry, etc.)
- These positions are often _________
and ___________ compared to the
positions that ______________

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outside of the home, de-valued,underpaid, men dominant

22
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More children today are being raised in __________ with __________

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dual earner famillies, two working parents

23
Q

________ of same sex couples in
Canada are married and ___________
same sex couples are raising children

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one third, one in eight

24
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Other definitions focus on what “the
members of the families do for each
other and the larger society” (p. 188)
- Commitment to each other over time
and shared activities

A

Famillies

25
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It isn’t just children that need care in families but rather…

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older adults and others with health challenges

26
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Models of the family

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  1. Patriarchal model
  2. Individual responsibility Model
  3. Social Responsibility Model
27
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people do not just need supports to help care for children but to also…

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engage in a wider range of
care giving activities in the home

28
Q

True or false: Despite the movement from maternity leave to “parental leave”, most parents
who take leave are still women

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true

29
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Model of an independent family that is responsible for it’s own well-being (economic and otherwise)
ex) mom = inside jobs, dad = outside jobs

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Patriarchal Model

30
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Shift from gendered assumptions to gender neutrality (but still grounded in the idea that individual families should be responsible for their own well-being)

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Individual Responsibility Model

31
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Nine out of ten ‘standard’ parental
leave beneficiaries are _______

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women

32
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Regards the well-being of the individual, rather than the family unit.

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Social Responsibility Model

33
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what province is an exception for leaves?

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Quebec

34
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In 2017, many fathers in Quebec were taking leave, compared with of fathers in the rest of the country who….

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who barely took leaves

35
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Childcare

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Family decisions regarding:
- When and how many children to have
- Division of care work between parents
- Participation in paid work

36
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there are huge variations across provinces in regards to:

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Types of child care and early education programs
- Affordability and accessibility of those programs
- Quality of those programs

37
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Men are more likely to take parental leave when

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it comes with a substantial level of income replacement

38
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Research in other countries with paternity leave have shown that when income replacement rates rise…

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the percentage of fathers taking leave also rises.

39
Q

collapse existing child benefit programs into a new enhanced income transfer called:

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Canada Child Benefit (CCB)

40
Q

With the creation of the CCB, federal spending on child benefits immediately increased (t or f)

A

true

41
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THE CCB PROGRAM…

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made it more generous for low-and middle- income households, and less generous for higher-income households, with the richest household receiving nothing.

42
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CCB is less generous to those who need it most (t or f)

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false

43
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how do you receive CCB

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you must file income taxes

44
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those living in shelters and indigenous people living in remote communities can…

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miss out on CCB

45
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CCB was created by

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Justin Trudeau, federal goverment

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