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I am a Professor of Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies at Brock University and I hold the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Gender, Work and Care. Most of my research and writing has travelled along three paths: ethnographic research on meanings and daily practices of caregiving responsibilities, especially for fathers; methodological, epistemological, ethical, and ontological issues in knowing with and from narrative accounts; and an attentiveness to genealogies of concept formation, especially concepts of responsibility, embodiment, time, care and work. My book Do Men Mother? which traversed, or began to, all three of these pathways, was awarded the John Porter Tradition of Excellence Book Award from the Canadian Sociological Association. Read more...
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Load More...Our op-ed on the Globe and Mail @GlobeDebate is online! @sylvia_a_fuller If the closing of childcare centres was bad for gender equity in employment, homeschooling has been a killer. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-pandemic-is-hurting-canadas-working-mothers/
@UBCSociology @ubcnews @UBC_Arts @UBCSame here: "At the centre of women’s predicament is the expectation that they will sacrifice their own economic viability to provide care at home. The burden of care is the single biggest barrier to women’s economic participation"
#childcare https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/07/how-coronavirus-is-widening-the-uk-gender-pay-gap?CMP=share_btn_twLyse Doucet is BBC’s Chief International Correspondent and long-time friend of the country she has been reporting from since 1988 - #Afghanistan.
- moderator @ Pains or Gains? -last #CrisisandOpportunity panel
⏰9 July, 15.30pm Kabul time
💬Join us: https://forms.gle/WbK9FcHR2BV3Wi1b7Excellent and important work on #COVID19 job losses for women (esp low-income) and the importance of #cdnchildcare and other care-work policies by @yueqian_soc and @sylvia_a_fuller @UBCSociology
This paper has just been published at Canadian Public Policy. It is open-access: https://doi.org/10.3138/cpp.2020-077 we thank @susanprentice @andreadoucet for their insightful comments on earlier drafts of the paper! @UBCSociology
