Showing papers on "Women's work published in 1978"

The Invisible Welfare State: Women's Work at Home

Abstract: Analysing welfare in terms of Allardt's three dimensions – Having, Loving, and Being – women's unpaid work at home seems particularly important for securing the welfare of the children, the sick, and the old on the Loving dimension. Increasing employment outside the home is necessary for increasing women's welfare on the Being dimension and their independence on the Having dimension. This cannot be realized without reducing the amount of women's unpaid work in the home. A dilemma of the welfare state is how women's equality on the Having and Being dimensions can be realized without the dependent population becoming worse off on the Loving dimension.

Marital status and women's work in Argentina: a cohort analysis.

Abstract: In recent years, the study of female participation in the labor force has focused either on the analysis of its determinants or on the changes it has under? gone as part of the process of economic development. In the first case, the object has been to account for certain variations in women's propensity to enter the labor market, in terms of educational attainment, marital status, number of children, etc. In this instance, the study generally deals with a single case, be it a country or a region, the units of analysis are few, and the level of variable discrimination is rela? tively high. The paradigm in this line of research is, perhaps, Sweet's work (1973). The second type of study follows an almost opposite model: numerous units, exceptionally observations of a single unit at different times, and a very low level of variable discrimination. Whereas in the first case time is not a central variable, it is definitely so in the second. See, for example, the studies by Leser (1958), Collver and Langlois (1962), Sinha (1965), Boserup (1975), Durand (1975a, 1975b) and, within the Latin American context, Durand (1972, 1975b), Elizaga (1974) and Pantelides (1976). All these authors have focused on changes undergone by female participa? tion throughout the processes of economic development. Sinha was the first to describe in 1965 a curvilinear change ? U-shaped ? with relatively high partici? pation levels at the early and late stages, and relatively low at the intermediate ones, starting with synchronic data collected around 1950 among a series of countries in different levels of development. The similarity of levels* merely formal, expresses quite different contents in terms of the economic structure. During the first stages most of the production takes place within the limits of the domestic unit, with generally unpaid economic participation; instead, during the last stages, participation is generally extra-domestic and paid.