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.

The Ideology of Femininity and Women’s Work in a Fishing Community of South India

Abstract: We are haunted by a crude nineteenth-century materialism when it comes to conceptualising the interconnections between culture and economics, particularly as they affect women. Ideologies of femininity, particularly in their more severe and restrictive aspects such as seclusion, segregation and sequestration, are all too frequently conceived as the peculiar burden of women in the propertied upper strata of society. This is sometimes noted as a curious ‘paradox’: women’s freedom from surveillance is supposedly in inverse proportion to their economic power as members of a class or caste. Jeffrey’s book on seclusion among the Pirzada women of the Mizammuddin Sufi shrine in Delhi states the general argument as it has been framed for India: The Indian situation, then, presents a paradox. It is mainly — but not exclusively — women from the poorest sectors who work outside their homes, and have greatest equality with their menfolk at home. By contrast, the cloistered women who do not work are women whose menfolk wield the greatest influence on the world outside the home, and who, as several writers have commented, experience marked inequalities between spouses in these richer families, often signalled by the women when they cover their heads, lower their eyes, or employ polite and circumlocutory forms of address. (1979: 32)

Rural energy crisis in Ghana: its implications for women's work and household survival

Abstract: Working paper on effects of energy shortages on homemaker activities and income generating activities of rural women in Southern Ghana. Examines the production and supply of fuelwood, the labour force participation of rural women workers in food production and small-scale industry, and the impact of energy shortage on family nutrition and health. Includes recommendations regarding fuel supply and water supply and the choice of technology in the household. Bibliography and statistical tables.

From the valley to the summit: a brief history of the quiet revolution that transformed women's work

Abstract: We can have a meaningful discussion today about "women at the top" only because of a quiet revolution that took place 30 years ago.

A panel study of married women's work patterns

Abstract: In the attempt to overcome shortcomings of previous research on women's employment patterns, married women's employment behavior was examined successively over a five year period (1976–1981). Logistic regression and discriminant function analyses were performed on a sample of 366 wives in dual earner families from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Attitudes as well as work and family factors differentiated women who worked continuously full-time from women who worked either part-time or intermittently during the five year period. The findings are discussed in the context of social change and the impact of changing norms on married women's work patterns.