Week 10

Question 1

Four categories of household/care work

Answer 1

Housework

childcare

elder care

Kin work

Question 2

What is Kin work?

Answer 2

Celebrations,’s birthdays, family, gatherings, staying in touch, sharing a Resources, with real and “fictive” kin

Question 3

Define invisible work

Answer 3

Typically undervalued or unmeasured given:

Location in Home

Lack of financial renumeration

Cultural association with women 

Question 4

“ social reproduction” is labelled as what type of work

Answer 4

Essential

Question 5

Household/Care work shapes labour market _______

(And vice versa)

Answer 5

Behaviour

Question 6

Define work family conflict (WFC)

Answer 6

Inability to meet demands of work and family

Question 7

What is an example of a work to family conflict?

Answer 7

Late work meetings means late to school pick up

Question 8

What is an example of a family to work conflict?

Answer 8

A sick child means missing work

Question 9

WFC can involve what 3 types of conflict

Answer 9

Time based conflict

Behaviour based conflict

Strain based conflict

Question 10

Define time based conflict

Answer 10

Hours at work interferes with availability for family

Question 11

Define behaviour based conflict

Answer 11

Incompatible behaviours required for work and family

Question 12

Define strain based conflict

Answer 12

Strain from one area spills over to the other

Question 13

Two consequences of WFC

Answer 13

Job satisfaction

Job stress

Question 14

Two individual approaches to work and family

Answer 14

Segmenters

Integrators

Question 15

Examples of segmenters

Answer 15

Part time, single, earner, family, Tag Team parenting

Question 16

Examples of integrators

Answer 16

Teleworking, home-based businesses

Question 17

What two types of flexibilities has employers provided to address WFC

Answer 17

Temporal flexibility

Spatial flexibility

Question 18

What two responses from employers to W FC are the most helpful

Answer 18

Flex time

Supportive supervisor

Question 19

Do employers have a legal obligation to provide leave

Answer 19

Yes

Question 20

Employee leave benefits are via what

Answer 20

EI

Question 21

What are the maternity benefits?

Answer 21

Up to 15 weeks at 55% of insurable earnings

Question 22

Four factors that impact to leave uptake

Answer 22

Eligibility criteria

Length of leave

Nontransferable leave for fathers

Benefit replacement rate

Question 23

Who takes leave in Canada?

(in terms of men and women)

Answer 23

Women’s still take both of leave, but more men are taking paid and unpaid leaves (3% increase in 2000 and 27% increase in 2012)

Question 24

Two things that invisible work lacks

Answer 24

Economic value

Pay

Question 25

Are women still responsible for the second shift?

Answer 25

Yes

Question 26

Defined the second shift

Answer 26

After working out a paid job, they come home to do household work (The same work their mothers and grandmothers day does full-time housewives)

Question 27

What is the sandwich generation?

Answer 27

Informal caregivers juggle elder care with caring for their own children

Question 28

What portion of Canadian informal caregivers are part of the sandwich generation

Answer 28

Over 1/4

Question 29

Two types of care that caring for children involves

Answer 29

Instrumental care Expressive care

Question 30

Define instrumental care (And other word)

Answer 30

Feeding dressing bathing (Caring for)

Question 31

Define expressive care (And other word)

Answer 31

Love support and encouragement (Caring about)

Question 32

Immigration policies have shaped ______ ______

Answer 32

Population composition

Question 33

The current immigration system is a _____ base system

Answer 33

Point

Question 34

List the five entry classes for immigration

Answer 34

Express entry Family sponsorship Refugee Provincial nominees Temporary

Question 35

List the six selection factors in the immigration point system

Answer 35

Question 36

What two factors are the most important in the current immigration system? (And their points allocation)

Answer 36

Language (28) Education (25)

Question 37

Immigration: what is the occupational barrier?

Answer 37

Licensing

Question 38

Immigration: what does occupational mismatch mean?

Answer 38

Immigrants work in occupations, which underutilize their skills and inhibit earnings potential

Question 39

Immigration: what is the unmeasured skill deficit?

Answer 39

Language

Question 40

Are there higher or lower rates of self-employment for immigrants What about wages?

Answer 40

Higher self employment rates for immigrants Wage is not necessarily higher in self-employment

Question 41

Responses to barriers: list the two types of stigma management?

Answer 41

Passing Covering

Question 42

Stigma management: define “ passing”

Answer 42

Appear a member of a non-stigmatized group

Question 43

Stigma management: define “ covering”

Answer 43

Downplay salience of characteristics that foster stigmatization

Question 44

Recent changes: greater emphasis on ______ ______ in selection for economic class immigrants

Answer 44

Canadian experience

Question 45

Recent changes, more pathways for students, temporary work permits into ______ ______ (And example)

Answer 45

Permanent residency (Post graduate work permit)