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17 Cards in this Set
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Social Security as a Gendered Issue
(Zero Balance) - White Women |
Best off
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Social Security as a Gendered Issue
(Zero Balance) - Women are not just low wage |
Women work in jobs that don't offer pension
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Social Security as a Gendered Issue
(Zero Balance) - Benefits based on earnings |
live in poverty while work and then fall deeper in retirement
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Social Security as a Gendered Issue
(Zero Balance) - Women of Color |
worst off
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Social Security as a Gendered Issue
(Zero Balance) - Divorce Rates |
big contribution to retirement prospects
poverty rates are higher for elderly divorced women than widows |
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Social Security as a Gendered Issue
(Zero Balance) - Widows |
don't receive full amount of spouse's benefits after their death.
spousal benefits from SS and pensions fall after husband's death |
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Social Security as a Gendered Issue
(Zero Balance) - Homosexual & Lesbian Couples |
don't receive partners benefits when they die
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Social Security as a Gendered Issue
(Zero Balance) - Unmarried Women |
Do Badly in retirement - low paying jobs, little to no pension
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Sandwich Generation
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Cares for both their parents and their own kids. Has lots of expenses.
Baby Boomers |
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Feminization of Poverty
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Majority of women on welfare are white women.
Face of poverty are women and children |
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Productive Labor
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work in "work place"
Productive work in the economy is made possible by (biology & socialization) work |
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Reproductive Labor
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"home work" labor that reproduces and sustains the productive laborer.
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Job Segregation
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Women get the lower paid jobs.
Women getting pregnant is the mindset employers Concentration of women and men in occupation dominated by own gender. Mommy Tracks |
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Sweat Shop Labor: Competition between Women
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Big businesses step up efforts to pit women workers in industrialized countries against much lower-paid women in developing countries.
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Sweat Shop Labor: What factors keep women's labor cheap?
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Moving big production sites to Asia. Confucian philosophy - woman's morality by willingness to work hard for the well-being of her family. Patriotic duty.
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Working Conditions
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Troops sexually assaulted them. Daily humiliations. Low pay. Dangerous jobs. Long hours.
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Sex Discrimination in Workplace
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women are unfairly scrutinized against and experience:
unequal pay less likely to gain top positions in companies due to pipeline problem mommy tracks Gender Stereotypes Sexual harassment |
