The Double Ghetto: Canadian Women and Their Segregated Work (Wynford Books) - Softcover

Armstrong, Pat; Armstrong, Hugh

9780195438321: The Double Ghetto: Canadian Women and Their Segregated Work (Wynford Books)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195438329 ISBN 13: 9780195438321

Publisher: OUP Canada, 2010

Pat Armstrong is a 2011 Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada.

One of the classic studies of Canadian sociology - now reissued with a new introduction by the authors - The Double Ghetto is a thought-provoking examination of women in the workforce and how their roles have both changed and yet stayed the same over the past four decades.

The Double Ghetto surveys the work women do at home and on the job to analyze why work in this country is still segregated by sex. As the authors note, although women now account for a majority of those graduating from post-secondary educational institutions and their labour force participation rate equals that of men, at the same time "women continue to do women's work at women's wages" and are disproportionately concentrated in the lowest paying occupations.

Why, despite all the gains of the past four decades, does segregation still persist? And why has progress, if anything, slowed since the mid-1990s, when the previous edition of this book was issued?

As well as being of vital interest to anyone interested in the status of women in the Canadian workforce, The Double Ghetto is also a standard text for courses in sociology, social work, and women's studies departments.

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About the Author:

Pat Armstrong is co-author or editor of more than a dozen books on health care, and she has also published on a wide variety of issues related to women's work and to social policy. Currently CHSRF/CIHR Chair in Heath Services and Nursing Research at York University, she has served as chair of the Department of Sociology at York and director of the School of Canadian Studies at Carleton University. She was a founding partner of the 'National Network on Environments and Womens Health and is the chair of Women and Health Care Reform, a working group on health reform. Her CIHR-funded project compares conditions in Canada's long-term care facilities with those in Nordic countries, which is the first step in a longer research program. Like most of her past research, this project relies primarily on the perspectives of those who actually provide or manage care within the system. Armstrong is a board member of the Canadian Health Coalition. Hugh Armstrong is a professor in the School of Social Work and in the Institute of Political Economy at Carleton University. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Council on Aging of Ottawa and on the Community Advisory Committee of the Ottawa Hospital. His books include About Canada: Health Care (Halifax and Winnipeg: Ferwood Books, 2008) and, with Pat Armstrong, Wasting Away: The Undermining of Canadian Health Care, Second Edition (Oxford), also recently reissued in a Wynford edition. His research interests include women and work, unions and public policy, and the political economy of health and health care.

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