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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: The results indicate that women were praised when they followed the traditional norms but were denigrated when they performed what was perceived as male-coded tasks.
Abstract: The aim of this study is to investigate what women do in disaster situations and how both men and women perceive and discuss the work of women. These patterns were evidenced in the stories that were told following the largest forest fire in the modern history of Sweden in July 2014. The study is based on 31 retrospective interviews with volunteers involved in combating the forest fire and concentrates on stories about the supportive work of women during this disaster. The results indicate that women were praised when they followed traditional norms but were denigrated when they performed what were viewed as male-coded tasks. The stories reveal norms concerning what a woman is and is not by focusing on women's age and clothing and by directly and indirectly questioning their abilities and authority. The norms are also rendered visible by the positive attention that women receive while describing doing what is expected of them.
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01 Jan 1996
TL;DR: The impact of incest on women's work performance and career development was studied in 41 female incest survivors and 15 nonabused women from a diverse population as mentioned in this paper, and the methodology was a content analysis of in-person qualitative, semi-structured interviews.
Abstract: NO ONE ASKED, NO ONE TOLD ME:" THE IMPACT OF INCEST ON WOMEN'S WORK AND CAREER FEBRUARY 1996 LESLIEBETH BERGER, B.A., CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIVERSITY M.A., OHIO UNIVERSITY M.S.S., BRYN MAWR COLLEGE Ed.D., UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST Directed by: Dr. Maurianne Adams The impact of incest on women's work performance and career development was studied in 41 female incest survivors and 15 nonabused women from a diverse population. The methodology was a content analysis of in-person qualitative, semi-structured interviews. Incest surviors participants reported having difficulties in academic and peer relations and difficulties in secondary schooling and more negative work experiences, including peer relations, difficulty in managing posttraumatic stress symptoms, remaining at a job, and advancing in a career. In addition to these difficulties incest survivors fell into different work group profiles: disabled, dabblers, drones, sprinters, v balancer/achievers, and drivers. Childhood experiences of incest contributed to an overall negative self-schema, especially regarding work and career capabilities.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors pointed out that the majority of women work in a limited number of occupations characterized by a proportionately high number of female workers and that workers in these female-dominated (FD) occupations earn less, on average, than workers in traditionally male or integrated occupations.
Abstract: It is well-known that the majority of women work in a limited number of occupations characterized by a proportionately high number of female workers. Moreover, workers in these female-dominated (FD) occupations earn less, on average, than workers in traditionally male or integrated occupations (McPherson & Hirsch, 1995). This occupational wage differential is widely accepted as a partial explanation for the pervasive gender wage-differential. However, it is unclear why an individual would enter into a FD occupation if the wages are lower than in nonfemale-dominated (NFD) occupations. It is also unclear if women who choose FD occupations could earn more in occupations that are NFD. Therefore, attributing a portion of the gender wage differential to occupational differences may be incorrect. Indeed, differences in the occupational choices of men and women will only explain the wage differential between genders if females in FD occupations could expect to earn higher wages elsewhere.
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