Margrit Eichler And Ann Matthew

CSEW Speaker Series
Margrit Eichler and Ann Matthews
department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education
OISE/UT
April 21, 2004

CSEW Speaker Series

What is execution?
Margrit Eichler
Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
at the
University of Toronto

Margrit Eichler of OISE/UT teaches and engages in research in the areas of family policy, reproductive and genetical technologies, and womens liberationist methodology, as well as taking an combinatory approach to social in/equity that understands the issue of sustainability as part of social stratification. She tries to apply a feminist and sustainability view to all of her contrive.

Ann Matthews is a doctoral student in the Department of Theory and Policy Studies at OISE/UT. She is currently take ining as a research assistant to Dr. Margrit Eichler.

Abstract

For a long time, work was defined as a paid activity. Due to feminist pressure, work is now understood to include unskilled work. This inclusion body was achieved by stressing the parallels between paid and unpaid work. But unpaid housework is an area of work that has (historically) continued to be viewed through and through that lens of paid work.




In this talk, we will be reservation an innovative switch to instead view all work through the lens of unpaid housework. Reviewing the results of 300 motionnaires and eleven point groups (having equitably approached both men and women from various ethnic groups as well as socially challenged groups) we have identified louvre different definitions of work, as well as an answer to the question of what one would define as not-work. After sharing these, we will speculate on the questions What new insights can we derive through such scholarship? and How might policies be affected if we were to ingest one of the alternative definitions of work?

Welcome: Dr. David Livingstone

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