1. Work and Family
Katie Reck

2. What is the Purpose of Work?
Having a paid job is, for most people and in most cases, a source of economic security, status, well-being and health.

3. What is work - Definition
Exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
Employment, as in some form of industry, especially as a means of earning one's livelihood: to look for work.
“Real Price of Work”
Taking Natural to the Useful (Marx)
What is work - Definition

4. Work = Poverty & Slavery Leisure = Free Hunter/Gatherers Agricultural
Industrial – 1800’s
Year-round labor
Discipline and anonymity
Technology /Information ’s
Industrial enterprises
Women
Robotics

5. Work Today 2000’s – Globalization Downsizing and Outsourcing
Higher workloads and greater time pressures
Fewer people doing more
More control over work pace, methods, increased flexibility, responsibility, and opportunities.
Work Today

7. What does the family look like today?

8. Marriage

9. Divorce

10. Single Parents

11. Fertility

12. Women

15. Work What do you want to do for work? Why do we work? Make Money
Productivity
Self-esteem
Contribute to society
What do you want to do for work?
Work

16. I based my future occupation choice mostly on…
Money / Salary
Time / Flexibility
What I love to do
Tradition
Family
I based my future occupation choice mostly on…

17. How much do you plan on making?
< $20,000
$20,000 - $50,000
$50,000 - $75,000
$75,000 - $100,000
> $100,000
How much do you plan on making?

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19. http://www. visualeconomics

20. Would you be willing to do something that you don’t like to do but make more money?
Would you rather do something that you love but not make as much money?
What if you had a family to provide for?
Value and Work

21. Ethnicity
Gender

22. Define Gender – Sex – biology Gender role – _______
Diversity – Gender, ethnic, and scioeconomic variety
Race –
Ethnicity – The way people define themselves – common ancestry and heritage
Culture –
Minority group – group that has less access to privileges, resources, and power
US Diversity – Mixing pot
Define

23. Men vs. Women http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAFiU6bZ678
How does being male or female effect the way I see the world?
If I were of a different gender, how would that affect my current worldview?
The bathroom fight – Ray ramono
Men vs. Women

24. Changes in Work How has work changed for men? Women? Wage gap
Parenting responsibilities
Stay at home parents
Equal sharers
Marriage responsibilities
Egalitarianism – equal/share
Dual-earner
Dual-career
Changes in Work

25. Gender and the Home Who does what in your house?
Works
Housework
Childcare
Bills
What are the different types of gender roles within a home?
Family Values = Balance
Gender and the Home

26. Gender and the Home ________………………….._________
Structure versus attitudes/values
Can an egalitarian relationship exist in a traditional marriage?
Gender and the Home

27. We are Different