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Women's work
About: Women's work is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1625 publications have been published within this topic receiving 33754 citations. The topic is also known as: woman's work.
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TL;DR: This article examined how women's work status changes with economic development and found that women's labor force participation first declines and then rises with development, women move from work in family enterprises to work as paid employees; fertility declines; and gender gaps in education narrow.
Abstract: Using a cross-country dataset and microdata from India and Thailand, we examine how women's work status changes with economic development. Several clear patterns emerge: women's labor force participation first declines and then rises with development; women move from work in family enterprises to work as paid employees; fertility declines; and gender gaps in education narrow. Women's education levels, and those of their spouses, appear to be important determinants of women's labor market activities. Broad welfare indicators, such as mortality rates and education levels, indicate that women's well-being improves on average with development, both in absolute terms and relative to men.
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TL;DR: The authors argued that neither sex-integrating jobs nor implementing comparable worth will markedly improve women's employment status because men can subvert these mechanisms or even change the rules by which rewards are allocated.
Abstract: To reduce sex differences in employment outcomes, we must examine them in the context of the sex-gender hierarchy. The conventional explanation for wage gap—job segregation—is incorrect because it ignores men's incentive to preserve their advantages and their ability to do so by establishing the rules that distribute rewards. The primary method through which all dominant groups maintain their hegemony is by differentiating the subordinate group and defining it as inferior and hence meriting inferior treatment. My argument implies that neither sex-integrating jobs nor implementing comparable worth will markedly improve women's employment status because men can subvert these mechanisms or even change the rules by which rewards are allocated. As evidence, I show that occupational integration has failed to advance women appreciably, and I argue that comparable worth is not likely to be much more effective. Instead, we must seek political analyses and political solutions.
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TL;DR: This article found that young women in treatment villages were significantly less likely to get married or have children during this period, choosing instead to enter the labor market or obtain more schooling or postschool training.
Abstract: Do labor market opportunities for women affect marriage and fertility decisions? We provided three years of recruiting services to help young women in randomly selected rural Indian villages get jobs in the business process outsourcing industry. Because the industry was so new at the time of the study, there was almost no awareness of these jobs, allowing us in effect to exogenously increase women's labor force opportunities from the perspective of rural households. We find that young women in treatment villages were significantly less likely to get married or have children during this period, choosing instead to enter the labor market or obtain more schooling or postschool training. Women also report wanting to have fewer children and to work more steadily throughout their lifetime, consistent with increased aspirations for a career. Copyright 2012, Oxford University Press.
482 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that women's work should not count for women's success in research, teaching, and service: Why Shouldn't Women's Work Count? The Journal of Higher Education: Vol 67, No 1, pp 46-84
Abstract: (1996) Research, Teaching, and Service: Why Shouldn't Women's Work Count? The Journal of Higher Education: Vol 67, No 1, pp 46-84
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01 Jan 1996TL;DR: In this article, the role of law in women's subordination, marginal employment, voluntary work, and unpaid household work is discussed, as well as female diversity and workforce polarisation.
Abstract: Explaining Women's Subordination Marginal Employment, Voluntary Work, Unpaid Household Work Feminisation of the Workforce Work Values, Work Plans and Social Interaction in the Workplace Labour Mobility and Women's Employment Profiles Occupational Segregation and the Pay Gap Social Engineering: the Role of Law Conclusions: Female Diversity and Workforce Polarisation.
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