WOMEN IN PUBLIC SECTOR

Women In Public Sector



Reflection Paper: Women in Public Sector

Introduction

This reflection paper will compare the writings of Jane Arscott & Manon Tremblay, Feminism and Political Science in Canada and Quebec. These two articles pertain to the role of feminism and women's issues in Canada.

Reflection

Women are not the problem, but in fact the very foundation of the liberal approach is fundamentally exclusive of women's issues. Arscott & Tremblay also see a rejection from the political in relation to women's issues. Their solution is to broaden the territory of political science, which would allow feminism to enter its realm. When looking at both their tactics, they leave women's issues uncorrupted of the political where the political tried to shape women's issues to better fit the mould and allow women's to be part of the political without change its position but instead forcing the political to accommodate women's issues.

The redistribution of the welfare state into the market signifies the delegation of social welfare responsibilities from the state to the market. According to Brodie this results in lower standards. The market-driven approach claims that it is inevitable to have the state relegate the economic burden of the public sector to the private sector. This has a very negative impact on feminism because it reduces the standards for social welfare.

As I understand it, the state sets standards that benefit the common good, while the market sets standards that will optimise its profit. Consequently, the market-driven approach will set bare minimum standards as prescribed by the state and will only listen to the state. This is where women are most penalised because the market does not address their interests and concerns. It can not be realistically expected for the private sector to act for the common good at the risk ...