Workin’ Moms is a Netflix Canadian series that follows the lives of working mothers who try to balance their jobs, family lives, and friendships in Toronto, Canada. Season 6 was released in 2022.
Clip #1
- Clip URL: https://criticalcommons.org/view?m=o2PBdk5l6
- Concepts:Tradeoff, opportunity cost
- Background: Kate returns to her job after nine-month maternity leave. She misses her son Charlie but also wants to advance her career.
- Question: What are Kate’s trade-off and opportunity costs from going back to work after nine-month maternity leave? What happened after she accepted the promotion and moved to Montreal for a few weeks?
Clip #2
- Clip URL: https://criticalcommons.org/view?m=9J8vWyDY9
- Concepts: unemployment
- Background: After Jenny’s maternity leave ends, her husband Ian decides to quit his job and stay home with their daughter. Frankie quits her job at a wellness center. Anne’s bosses discover that she has been working for both their companies and is being laid off from both jobs. She becomes depressed from the news.
- Question: Neither Ian, Frankie, nor Anne is working. Which one(s) of them are considered unemployed?
Clip #3
- Clip URL: https://criticalcommons.org/view?m=AEi9BqOKv
- Concepts: labor-market discrimination, gender pay gap
- Background: Jenny finds out that female workers at her company earn less than their male counterparts. She decides to confront the executive and asks for a change.
- Question: Jenny demands equal pay for her female coworkers. Can Jenny’s boss explain the gender pay gap in his company using economic theory?