• Introduction
  • Current Projects
    • Occupational segregation trends in Canada
    • Family Contexts of Migrant Children: Language and Other Socioeconomic Inequalities
    • Care Work in Canada
    • Comparing Labour Market Vulnerabilities of Refugees in Canada: The Impacts of Entry Programs, Arrival Age and Gender
    • STEM Work: the Intersections of Gender, Race and Migrant Status
    • COVID19 and Vulnerable Populations
  • Carework Trends: 1991-2016
    • Classifying Care Across Time
    • Project Data for Download
    • Breakdown by Age Demographics 1991-2016
    • Visible Minority Demographics 1991-2016
    • Part-time Demographics 1991-2016
  • Selected publications by topic
  • Curriculum Vitae

Professor Monica Boyd

Department of Sociology, University of Toronto

Care Work in Canada

This overarching project originates from work done by Professor Boyd on the SSHRC Partnership grant Gender, Migration and the Work of Care (Ito Peng, PI, and Monica Boyd Co-Investigator). Among the questions being researched are 1) what is happening over time in Canada to the economic stratification of care workers, focusing on trends between 1991 and 2016 and extensions into the Pandemic years; 2) intersectionality in care and healthcare – specifically, what groups (women, immigrants, people of colour) are most likely to be workers in the care and health fields; and how are these groups stratified and advantaged or disadvantaged vis-à-vis other workers in the care economy.  Current research underway profiles the changes over time in the stratification of care and healthcare workers and investigates the current labour market position of immigrant women who entered Canada through the Live-in Caregiver program.  Several projects also exist on related topics.

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