chapter 6 (2) Flashcards
(45 cards)
what is Canada ranked overall for gender equality?
24
benchmarks gender- based gaps in economic participation and
opportunity, educational attainment,
health, survival, and political
empowerment
The World Economic Forum Global
Gender Gap Index
What is canadas 26th biggest city?
Windsor
what is Windsor ranked as one of the worst places to live as a women
20th
ranking the best and worst places to be a
woman in Canada
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
- 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.
Gender Inequality - definition
Formal equality
- Treating men and women the same to achieve the same results
- Gender blind approach
Substantive equality
Treating men and women differently to achieve comparable results
- Gendered approach
Policies that (on the surface) appear gender neutral and treat men and women the same ignore the
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
- 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)
Social Welfare Policies
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
true
who are more likely to be social workers? men or women?
women
who are most to be
consumers of social services
women
Historically, women became involved in the provision of social welfare due to their…
relegated gender roles in society as “nurturers”
belief that women, due to their special nurturing qualities, had an obligation to
transfer these qualities into the public sphere to help nurture others.
Maternal feminism
women are more likely to
be poor than men for a variety of
structural reasons and processes
Feminization of poverty
Today _________________ of women (64.7%) work full time
2/3
As more women moved into the paid labour market,
the amount of domestic labour they continued to perform in the home did not fall (rather, they were now simply doing both).
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.
care work
care work is upaid labor when…
done by those in the home (usually women)
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 ______________
outside of the home, de-valued,underpaid, men dominant
More children today are being raised in __________ with __________
dual earner famillies, two working parents
________ of same sex couples in
Canada are married and ___________
same sex couples are raising children
one third, one in eight
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
Famillies
