LABR 1260:
WORKING FOR A
LIVING
JANUARY 27 +
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
Gender in the Workplace
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Today’s 3
Questions
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LABR 1260 - Gender in the Workplace
How does our gender affect how we relate to our jobs and how it does affect how we are treated?
When fighting gender
discrimination
–
what tools work
best to fight back?
Are these tools available to all
working people?
Gender in the Workplace
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Focus of tonight’s topic: gender
equity
–How to get it, why we don’t have it,
etc
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Two overlapping groups are primarily
harmed due to their gender:
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Women Workers
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Transgender Workers
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Gender in the Workplace
What are some hot topics related to
gender and waged work?
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Gender and Labour Markets
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Role of women and men in labour markets have
changed dramatically in last 100 years, last 50
years, and last 20 years
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How do men and women engage with the
labour market differently? How does it affect
them differently?
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Gender and Labour Markets
Women are taking an increasingly central role in
the workforce
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Proportion of 25-54 y.o.
women in waged work
1950: 21.6%
1983: 65.2%
2015: 82.0%
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Moyser, M. (2017, March 8). Women and Paid Work (Chart 1). Statistics
Canada. Retrieved from
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x/2015001/article/14694-eng.htm
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Moyser, M. (2017, March 8). Women and Paid Work (Chart 2). Statistics
Canada. Retrieved from
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x/2015001/article/14694-eng.htm
.
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Moyser, M. (2017, March 8). Women and Paid Work (Chart 6). Statistics
Canada. Retrieved from
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x/2015001/article/14694-eng.htm
.
Gender and Labour Markets
Some differences are slowly ending
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Data from Moyser, M. (2017, March 8). Women and Paid Work (Table 6).
Statistics Canada. Retrieved from
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503-x/2015001/article/14694-eng.htm
.
Gender and Labour Markets
Other gender differences persist
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Data from Statistics Canada. Table 14-10-0029-01 Part-time employment
by reason, annual (x 1,000). Retrieved from
Men:
Caring for children
Men:
Other personal or family responsibilities
Men:
Business Conditions/Could not find
FT work
Women:
Caring for children
Women:
Other personal or
family responsibilities
Women:
Business
Conditions/Could not find FT
work
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
REASONS GIVEN FOR PART-TIME EMPLOYMENT BY SEX, 1997-2019
Gender and Labour Markets
Some highly-gendered roles have flipped
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Data from Statistics Canada. Table 14-10-0129-01 Union status by geography.
