Good afternoon, The next meeting of the Mental Sciences Club will be this Thursday 5th November, 16:00-17:30. This week, Paulina Sliwa and Tom McClelland will be introducing their work on Gendered Affordance Perception (abstract below). The Zoom link for the meeting is the following:
https://zoom.us/j/97991710019?pwd=QnU0Y2FERktqb0dWMWdqNzMvUjdpQT09 Meeting ID: 979 9171 0019 Passcode: 908079 All the best, Tom and Jessie Abstract Domestic labour is often distributed in a gendered way, with women shouldering a greater domestic burden than men. These imbalances are often experienced by women who have no more time at home than a male partner. The pandemic has brought such imbalances into focus, with many women reporting that their domestic workloads have remained disproportionate despite both adults in the household being at home all the time. We propose that these commonplace disparities in domestic labour are perpetuated by differences in how the domestic environment is perceptually experienced. Specifically, women are often more attuned to affordances for domestic task. A woman might, for instance, perceptually experience a dirty floor as affording cleaning where their male partner does not. We suggest that this affordance framework can help us to a) better describe the nature of this domestic imbalance; b) better explain how such imbalances arise and persist and; c) better develop strategies for ameliorating such imbalances. Dr Tom McClelland Lecturer - Faculty of Philosophy College Research Associate - Clare College Director of Studies - Selwyn College and Gonville & Cauis Raised Faculty Builidng Room 318, tel. 01223 (7)63173 tommcclelland.org typos courtesy of dyslexia _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: https://lists.cam.ac.uk/pipermail/phil-events/ Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
