Women’s Emancipation and the Recruitement of Women into the Canadian Labour Force in World War II

Pierson, Ruth Roach

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“…The early gendered workplace practices were foundational for establishing where women worked as their labor force participation rates increased. Although some were employed in male‐dominated industries and occupations during the Great Depression and World War II (Crompton & Vickers, 2000; Phillips & Phillips, 1993; Pierson, 1977), many women entering Canada's paid workforce from the 1970s on were employed in female‐dominated occupations, such as elementary school teachers or caregivers (including nurses). Clerical work was feminized early in the century, and it was a major site of female employment by the late 1960s as the growth of the service sector drove new demands for record keeping (Boyd, 1992; Fortin & Huberman, 2002; Lowe, 1982).…”

Section: A Herstory Of Work and Gendered Occupational Distributionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Revisiting gender occupational segregation trends in Canada: 1991–2016

Kaida

Boyd

2022

Canadian Review of Sociology

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Despite continued interest in gender (in)equality at work, Canadian research on gender occupational segregation stopped in the early 2000s. We revisit gender occupational segregation trends using newly developed harmonized occupational categories which resolve temporal changes in occupational classifications. Our analysis of the 1991–2016 Canadian Census Masterfiles finds gender occupational segregation, whether measured by the index of dissimilarity or Gini index, has steadily decreased since the 1990s. Yet the pace of its decline has slowed since 2000. This can be explained by the diminishing changes in vertical segregation, measured by inequality in earnings across occupations. Our results contribute to an ongoing debate about a stalled gender revolution. We also suggest new topics for future study.

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Section: A Herstory Of Work and Gendered Occupational Distributionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Revisiting gender occupational segregation trends in Canada: 1991–2016

Kaida

Boyd

2022

Canadian Review of Sociology

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“…115 Women labourers were very much in demand, particularly after 1942, as Pierson documents. 116 Up until this point Canadian industry was still reabsorbing labourers laid off during the Depression of the 1930s. 117 The other issue that became more and more prevalent as the war continued into 1943 was that women were leaving other low-paying jobs to compete for jobs in the war industries and manufacturing.…”

Section: From School To Service: Pulled Into Military and Industrial Service By Machinesmentioning

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Technical School in Toronto: Growing up in the Trades during the Second World War

Allison

2016

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This article examines technical education in Toronto, Canada during the Second World War. Research on this topic reveals that there were enhanced links and patterns of interactions between the Toronto schools and the Canadian Armed Forces during the war. In particular, it was found that the war effort had a profound effect on technical education in Toronto because it strengthened links between the military and technical secondary schools, changed the curriculum and the school calendar, and helped attract technical students towards work in the armed forces and industry. The author examined these questions using primary sources from Toronto school archives and other City of Toronto archives.RÉSUMÉCet article s’intéresse à l’enseignement technique à Toronto (Canada) pendant la Deuxième Guerre mondiale. Cette recherche révèle qu’il y a eu des relations étroites et des modèles d’interactions entre les écoles torontoises et les Forces armées canadiennes durant la guerre. Entre autres, on a découvert que l’effort de guerre a eu des répercussions profondes sur l’enseignement spécialisé à Toronto. Il y a eu des rapprochements entre les militaires et les écoles techniques secondaires, on a modifié les programmes d’études et le calendrier scolaires et on a stimulé l’intérêt des élèves pour le travail dans l’armée et l’industrie. Cette recherche s’appuie sur des sources primaires provenant des archives des écoles torontoises et de la ville de Toronto.

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“…For example, the Canadian government revised the Income Tax Act to allow husbands to claim their wives as dependants regardless of their earnings, and extended cost sharing to the provinces for daycare centres for mothers working in war industries. However, these policies ended after the war (Pierson, 1977).…”

Section: Pre-2000 Child Care Supportmentioning

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The political economy of child care policy: contradictons in New Zealand and Canada

Baker¹

2011

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In countries like New Zealand and Canada, often classified as ‘liberal’ welfare regimes, child care was historically viewed as a private matter of little concern to governments or employers. Nevertheless, early in the 20th century governments supported maternal care at home by providing tax relief to male-breadwinner families, but also established care and protection programmes for disadvantaged children. In the 1940s, both countries developed universal child allowances to help parents with childrearing costs. By the 1970s they were providing subsidies for early childhood education and care while continuing to offer income support programmes for disadvantaged parents caring for children at home (Baker, 2006; Kedgley, 1996; May, 1997; McClure, 1998).

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Women’s Emancipation and the Recruitement of Women into the Canadian Labour Force in World War II

Cited by 8 publications

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Revisiting gender occupational segregation trends in Canada: 1991–2016

Revisiting gender occupational segregation trends in Canada: 1991–2016

Technical School in Toronto: Growing up in the Trades during the Second World War

The political economy of child care policy: contradictons in New Zealand and Canada

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