[PDF] Working Women In Canada eBook

Author : Leslie Nichols
Publisher : Women's Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 12,29 MB
Release : 2019-08-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0889616000

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In this edited collection, Leslie Nichols weaves together the contributions of accomplished and diverse scholars to offer an expansive and critical analysis of women’s work in Canada. Students will use an intersectional approach to explore issues of gender, class, race, immigrant status, disability, sexual orientation, Indigeneity, age, and ethnicity in relation to employment. Drawing from case studies and extensive research, the text’s eighteen chapters consider Canadian industries across a broad spectrum, including political, academic, sport, sex trade, retail, and entrepreneurial work. Working Women in Canada is a relevant and in-depth look into the past, present, and future of women’s responsibilities and professions in Canada. Undergraduate and graduate students in gender studies, labour studies, and sociology courses will benefit from this thorough and intersectional approach to the study of women’s labour.

Author : Joan Sangster
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 41,97 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0802096522

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`This is a beautifully conceived and revealing book. Joan Sangster lucidly explores and explains an astonishing array of complex material to reveal how women in the post-war period became full-fledged members of the labour force. Transforming labour offers such a rich variety of ancedotal evidence that it will benefit students of women's work from all over the world.' Alice Kessler-Harris, author of in Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th-Century America

Author : Leslie Nichols
Publisher :
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 15,42 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9780889616028

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"Working Women in Canada investigates how women in Canada currently experience work and how gender affects that experience. As gender alone is insufficient in understanding the work experience of women, this edited collected takes an intersectional approach, examining how age, ethnicity, immigration status, disability, and other social categories intersect to improve or worsen women's working lives and their ability to care for themselves and their families."--

Author : Janice Acton
Publisher : Women's Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 40,24 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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Women's work has been fundamental to Canada's development - whether that work has involved serving the wealthy, struggling to maintain her own family, tending the ill, teaching, or producing profits for the owner of a garment factory through sweated labour. And yet, Florence Worthington, and thousands of women like her, have been ignored by history. Women at Work attempts to explore the realities of Canadian women's experiences, and proposes the framework which begins to answer why the double exploitation of women as mothers and workers has persisted to the present day.

Author : Evridiki Tsounta
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 11,38 MB
Release : 2006-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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This paper analyzes the role of the tax and benefit system in spurring the impressive increase in Canadian female labor participation in the last decade. Using annual panel data for 10 large industrial countries over the period 1980-2001, I find that reforms in the Canadian tax and benefit system in the mid-1990s account for at least one-third of the observed increase in female participation in the period 1995-2001. The analysis indicates that policy initiatives similar to the "family-friendly" policies introduced in Canada could boost female participation in other countries and help policymakers meet the challenges of population aging.

Author : Cecilia Benoit
Publisher : Scarborough, Ont. : Prentice Hall Allyn & Bacon Canada
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 28,27 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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The text is suitable for upper-level sociology courses of work and gender, as well as political science, and women's studies courses. Viewing gender relations in a historical context, the book examines the importance of women's roles in both paid and unpaid work, with a particular focus on the Canadian experience and its relation to other societies.

Author : Joan Sangster
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 44,92 MB
Release : 2010-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1442698969

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The increased participation of women in the labour force was one of the most significant changes to Canadian social life during the quarter century after the close of the Second World War. Transforming Labour offers one of the first critical assessments of women's paid labour in this era, a period when more and more women, particularly those with families, were going 'out to work'. Using case studies from across Canada, Joan Sangster explores a range of themes, including women's experiences within unions, Aboriginal women's changing patterns of work, and the challenges faced by immigrant women. By charting women's own efforts to ameliorate their work lives as well as factors that re-shaped the labour force, Sangster challenges the commonplace perception of this era as one of conformity, domesticity for women, and feminist inactivity. Working women's collective grievances fuelled their desire for change, culminating in challenges to the status quo in the 1960s, when they voiced their discontent, calling for a new world of work and better opportunities for themselves and their daughters.

Author : Ruth A. Frager
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 34,60 MB
Release : 2006-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1442658274

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The years between 1870 and 1939 were a crucial period in the growth of industrial capitalism in Canada, as well as a time when many women joined the paid workforce. Yet despite the increase in employment, women faced a difficult struggle in gaining fair remuneration for their work and in gaining access to better jobs. Discounted Labour analyses the historical roots of women's persistent inequality in the paid labour force. Ruth A. Frager and Carmela K. Patrias analyse how and why women became confined to low-wage jobs, why their work was deemed less valuable than men's work, why many women lacked training, job experience, and union membership, and under what circumstances women resisted their subordination. Distinctive earning discrepancies and employment patterns have always characterized women's place in the workforce whether they have been in low-status, unskilled jobs, or in higher positions. For this reason, Frager and Patrias focus not only on women wage-earners but on women as salaried workers as well. They also analyze the divisions among women, examining how class and ethnic or racial differences have intersected with those of gender. Discounted Labour is an essential new work for anyone interested in the historical struggle for gender equality in Canada.

Author : Bengt Petersson
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 42,41 MB
Release : 2017-07-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1484311825

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How important are female workers for economic growth? This paper presents empirical evidence that an increase in female labor force participation is positively associated with labor productivity growth. Using panel data for 10 Canadian provinces over 1990–2015, we found that a 1 percentage point increase in the labor force participation among women with high educational attainment would raise Canada’s overall labor productivity growth by 0.2 to 0.3 percentage point a year. This suggests that if the current gap of 7 percentage points between male and female labor force participation with high educational attainment were eliminated, the level of real GDP could be about 4 percent higher today. The government has appropriately stepped up its efforts to improve gender equality, as part of its growth strategy. In particular, the government’s plan to expand access to affordable child care is a positive step. However, we argue that to maximize the policy outcome given a budget constraint, provision of subsidized child care—including publicly funded child care spaces—should be better targeted to working parents.