Introduction: Gender, Work, and Globalization
Typical work day at most places of employment
What is a 9-5?
An act that is the strongest legal policy protecting people’s jobs that allows people to take extended leave in the case of needing to care for the sick or elderly or take personal time for pregnancy and childcare
What is the Family Medical Leave Act?
A clause in PRWORA that denies additional benefits to mothers who have more children while on welfare
What is the family cap provision?
Movements that support safe working conditions and sustainable wages have also cropped up, especially in the coffee and chocolate industries.
What is fair trade?
Women of color of the Global South can make more money within illegal and unregulated markets. True or false?
What is false? in the Global North
A wage that was enough to cover the costs of an entire family
A term that describes jobs that women are more likely to do. It mostly describes low-wage, female-dominated positions that involve service and, often, emotional labor
What are Pink-Collar jobs?
Examples of welfare programs in the United States besides monthly income assistanc
What are subsidized healthcare, food stamps, childcare, and Social Security?
This describes both the benefits and costs of living in a globally connected world.
What is globalization?
A modern day colonization characterized by exploitation of a nation’s resources and people?
What is Neocolonialism?
Helps us identify how certain groups of people fit easily into the norms of existing social structures and practices
What is one aspect of privilege?
Discrimination; occupational segregation; devalued work; inherent work-family conflicts
What are four possible reasons for the gender pay gap?
It promoted marriage as a poverty solution without recognizing issues like domestic violence, economic insecurity, or non-heterosexual families
What is the Healthy Marriages Initiative?
This describes a set of institutions, policies, and ideologies, in which the governmental restrictions and regulations are minimal, allowing corporate bodies to engage in cross-border enterprises to maximize profit.
What is free trade?
What define in Latin America, illuminated how colonization invented the concepts of “the colonized,” “modernity” and “coloniality,” and disrupted the social arrangements?
What is Decoloniality?
Rested on presumptions about heterosexuality, class, and race; families were assumed to consist of a man and woman; most families had to have both parents in the workforce
What are factors of family wage?
A phenomenon that describes when a man takes on female dominated work/“pink-collar” jobs and gets paid better and advances to higher-level positions faster than comparable women
What is the glass elevator?
A global trend in which more women live in poverty due to unpaid care work and unequal access to economic resources
What is the feminization of poverty?
The process of moving to remaining areas of cheap labor before workers organize.
What is 'race to the bottom'?
What describes women immigrate to other nations they often sacrifice care of and contact with their own children in order to earn money caring for wealthier people’s children as domestic workers?
What is Transnational Motherhood?
Encourages an ongoing process of examining how the usual, accepted ways of doing things can be unfair or harder for certain groups of people even if its not obvious at first
What is the equality approach?
A term developed by sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild (19830) that is used to describe work in which, as part of their job, employees must control and manage their emotions
What is emotional labor?
These dynamics have made sustainable incomes difficult for all workers, especially women
What is the Global North vs. Global South dynamics?
A market-driven approach to economic and social policy, where capitalism’s profit motive is applied to social policies and programs (like welfare and taxation), cutting them to increase profits.
What is neoliberalism?
Is nail salon considered as body labor? True or false?
What is true?