Wk7: Work and the Economy

Assigned Readings

1. Andersen, Ch5: Women, Work, and the Economy

2. Gerson - Moral Dilemmas (http://tinyurl.com/z7lsd7d) 

3. Zheng - 2018 - Precarity is a Feminist Issue: Gender and Contingent Labor in the Academy

4. Hochschild - Love and Gold (http://tinyurl.com/hltvnms) 

5. Hondagneu-Sotelo-Maid in LA (http://tinyurl.com/z6rvs6n) 

6. Paulette Caldwell - A Hair Piece: Perspectives on the Intersection of Race and Gender (http://tinyurl.com/hayxfxx) 

7. LESLIE JONES RESPONDS TO CRITICISM OF HER "RACIST" GHOSTBUSTERS ROLE (http://tinyurl.com/gqn2yep) 

Suggested:

• The Career Mystique

• Walby - Is the knowledge society gendered? (http://tinyurl.com/hl9daod) 

• Christine Williams - The Glass Escalator (http://tinyurl.com/jbgkcr2) 

  • The Precarity of the "Glass Escalator" by Erin Hoekstra on November 13, 2013

Suggested Additional Resources:

• Even in Denmark, women take a 20% pay cut for having children

• Sweden is apparently full of 'latte dads' carrying toddlers — and it's a sign of critical social change

• Sweden's parental leave laws have revolutionized the lives of moms.

• German maternity/paternity/parental leave : 6 weeks prior to birth + 8 weeks after (or 12 weeks in case of premature births); so 14-18 weeks (3.5-4.5mths). Additional Extended Parental leave is 24mths. 

  • During the six weeks before and eight weeks after giving birth, women earn their full paycheck while out on maternity leave. 

  • After that, until their child is 12 months, they make 65 percent of their monthly salary, up to a cap of 1,800 euros a month. Even the lowest-paid workers earn 300 euros a month—and unemployed women, too! There’s even better news for women having their second child: They get a 10 percent "sibling bonus"—an additional 75 euros a month, at least. (Dads, by the way, also get paid leave for up to 12 months.)