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Question 1
Several factors have been discussed as playing key roles in pushing, pulling and facilitating women's labour force participation. List two push factors, two pull factors and two facilitators that account for women's high levels of paid work today.
Question 2
Discuss how women's roles in unpaid domestic work and childcare affect their employment opportunities and status within the paid labour force? Why is it assumed that women are more suitable than men for some jobs?
Question 3
What is meant by the term racialization and how is racialization embedded in precarious employment? What is meant by systemic discrimination and what are some of the strategies used to combat systemic discrimination?
Question 4
Discuss the historical changes in the nature of the Canadian economy and their impact on women's work and family life.
Question 5
Discuss the central arguments Meg Luxton makes in her book, More Than a Labour of Love. How did women's work change through the years and how did the power dynamic change between men and women in the three generations that Luxton studied.
Question 6
What is the main argument made by Karen Rebecca Foster in her article, "Disaffection Rising? Generations and the Personal Consequences of Paid Work in Contemporary Canada"? How does her argument related the circumstances faced by young women in the paid labour force?
Question 7
Various theories of women's work and inequality have been discussed in class and required readings. Select two explanations for women's unequal position within the paid labour force and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of each of these theories.
Question 8
Reflecting on the differences between men's and women's lives, Jessie Bernard once wrote that men and women march to the beat of a different drummer, but in some respects they're not even in the same parade. Discuss this statement in relation to women's struggle to achieve fairness and equality in the paid labour force in historical and contemporary times.