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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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17 Feb 2010
TL;DR: The effects of pension reforms on women's retirement security are discussed in this paper, where the authors consider the effects of general trends in pension reform around the millennium and their impact on women.
Abstract: Contents: Part I Introduction: General trends in pension reform around the millennium and their impact on women, Bernd Marin. Part II General Contributions: A discussion of retirement income security for men and women, Annika SundA(c)n Women and pensions. Effects of pension reforms on women's retirement security, Elsa Fornero and Chiara Monticone Poverty amongst older women and pensions policy in the European Union, Asghar Zaidi, Katrin Gasior and Eszter ZA^3lyomi. Part III Single and Comparative Country Studies: Pension system in Poland in the gender context, Agnieszka Chlon-Dominczak The 1.000a'-- trap. Implications of Austrian social and tax policy on labour supply, Eva Pichler Women's work and pensions: some empirical facts and figures. Austria in an international comparison, Michael Fuchs Restricting pre-retirement a " what about older women's ability to work?, Raija Gould. Part IV Some Preliminary Conclusions: What is Good, Bad, Best for Women?: Gender equality, neutrality, specificity and sensitivity a " and the ambivalence of benevolent welfare paternalism, Bernd Marin. Part V Annex: Some facts and figures on women's lives, work and pensions, Bernd Martin and Eszter ZA^3lyomi (with Silvia FAssler and Katrin Gasior).

12 citations

01 Jan 2008
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore women's travel behaviors during their commutes from home to work in a rapidly developing customer information services industry (CIS industry) and find that women are disproportionately employed in call centers.
Abstract: This paper explores women’s travel behaviors during their commutes from home to work The type of women’s work being examined in this study is the rapidly developing customer information services industry – call centers As in most of the industry, the call centers in this study employ a largely female workforce The underlying assumption of this analysis is that an investigation of the routes linking female call center agents’ workplaces to their homes will provide information on women’s lives in both sites The study location is Albuquerque, New Mexico, while the data for this study comes from a survey of call center employees and from interviews with call center managers

12 citations

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TL;DR: The authors used a qualitative methodology to get behind the 'facts' of qualitative differences in women's and men's positions in the social sciences and found that women on the bottom rung of the socio-economic ladder are more likely to experience gender inequality than men.
Abstract: Women, Women's Work and ‘Women's Studies’ are in a disadvantaged and marginal position within academic settings. This is a reflection of women's position in society in general, and it should be no surprise to find it to be the case in sociology as elsewhere. Women's studies has achieved some respectability within the social sciences, but rather than this being seen as a straightforward success, the disadvantages of this ‘respectability’ must be understood, as must the subtlety of male incorporation of feminist ideas not at a conscious level but within and through the male defined ethos of academia. The use of a qualitative methodology to get behind the ‘facts’ of qualitative differences in women's and men's positions is important. The lives of women postgraduates and researchers in Great Britain, those women on the bottom rung, can give us insights into the difficulties for women's studies and into the possibilities for the direction that attempts to redress the imbalances between men and women in academia might take.

12 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the factors that influence women's work behavior in Kenya were examined and whether gender attitudes and certain types of social institution influence the probability of employment or type of employment for women.
Abstract: This study considers the factors that influence women's work behavior in Kenya. In particular, it examines whether gender attitudes and certain types of social institution influence the probability of employment or type of employment for women. Using data from the Demographic and Health Survey of 2008–9, it finds that religion and ethnicity are significant determinants of women's employment in Kenya. While personal experience of female genital mutilation is insignificant, spousal age and education differences, as well as marital status (which reflect attitudes both in women's natal and marital families), are significant determinants of women's employment choices.

12 citations

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TL;DR: The authors examines the politics of state intervention in women's work in the white lead trade to illustrate that gender was the decisive factor in the making of social policy and that women were more susceptible to lead poisoning than men.
Abstract: / / /Concern for a woman's existing or potential offspring historically V^ has been the excuse for denying women equal employment opportunities,\" Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun wrote in March of 1991.1 He was one of five judges whose votes overturned a \"fetal protection\" policy enacted by Johnson Controls, Inc., the nation's largest manufacturer of automobile batteries, thereby reversing the historical trend.2 This important case raised fundamental questions about gender, work, sex discrimination, reproductive rights, and intervention in women's lives. It also bore a striking resemblance to the regulation of women's work in another hazardous trade—the white lead trade—which is the subject of this article. In June of 1898, the English government banned women from working in the most dangerous but also the highest paying portions of the white lead trade as a means of protecting their potential offspring. This monumental step in protective labor legislation followed a heated public and governmental debate about women's work in the trade. The debate was fueled by sensational newspaper accounts of death and infant mortality and the medical opinion that women were more susceptible to lead poisoning than men. Together, the press and medical men created a powerful discourse of danger which claimed that certain work was especially dangerous to women and their offspring. This discourse served to initiate and justify radical government intervention. This article examines the politics of state intervention in women's work in the white lead trade to illustrate that the politics of gender was the decisive factor in the making of social policy. Disturbed with women's work outside the home and possessing deeply embedded ideas about sexual difference, Home Office officials, medical men, manufacturers, and various reform groups participated in the creation of dangerous trade regulations. Their opinions and predisposition towards state action were buttressed by medical knowledge and pressing social concerns and fears. The regulation of women's work became directly tied to the national, or rather, imperial concern over motherhood, infant mortality, and the fitness of women for certain jobs. Apart from making protection an almost prede-

12 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
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20235
20228
202139
202046
201952
201848