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.

Gender Issues in Preparing a Professional Workforce: New Views of Women's Work in Early Care and Education

Abstract: The increased number of early care and education (ECE) programs worldwide is a response to parents' workforce decisions, to economic policies, and to new knowledge about early learning. Ninety percent of the ECE workforce is women. While most ECE theorists have been men, women have been the invisible program implementers, teachers, and teacher educators. The combination of numbers of ECE programs, the characteristics of “traditional” work in a female-dominated field, and society's attitudes toward employed women, especially mothers, has created a dilemma. Possible solutions include re-structuring society's thinking about women connected with ECE and re-defining the processes in expressing the changed view. This article proposes that ECE is not traditional women's work. ECE is similar to non-traditional jobs.

Women's community work challenges market citizenship

Abstract: This article examines the connection between women's community provisioning work and their participation in citizenship activities that seek to alter an inequitable distribution of rights and resources. As neo-liberal policy regimes restructure the collective work of women, we explore whether women's community work has become a substitute for public resources or whether it serves as a fundamental challenge to an individualization of citizenship by reconnecting citizenship and social rights. We draw on interview and focus group data from a multi-year year investigation of what supports and what limits the provisioning work women perform in six community organizations in Canada serving vulnerable populations and neighborhoods. Three connections between citizenship activities and community provisioning are discussed: how women challenge notions of the worthy citizen; how they bring privatized need back into the public arena; and how they move from solidarity to advocacy.

Revaluation of women's work in bangladesh

Abstract: The paper seeks to revalue women's nonmarket work in the context of parts of rural Bangladesh, v} ich is where most of her women folk live. It raises relevant conceptual and methodological considerations relating to revaluation of women's work, reviews various sets of evidence on the pattern of time use of women in Bangladesh, and then puts up a broad order of magnitude as to the value of women's nonmarket work. For this purpose, it taken the sexual division of labour and sexual differential in rates of wages as given. The paper shows that rural women in Bangladesh work as hard, if anything harder, as mm on a daily basis. It also shows the widespread sexual distribution of labour in the sense of involving the influence of social stereotypes in the allocation of tasks between males and females. Finally, it shows that productive work within households consists of market work, typically by men, and a good deal of subsistence work and domestic work performed by women.

Agricultural Development in Sierra Leone: Implications For Rural Women in the Aftermath of the Women's Decade

Abstract: The United Nations Decade for Women drew to a close in 1985 with a dramatic conference in Nairobi, Kenya. It was with much enthusiasm that over 300 resolutions were passed in to promote forward looking strategies for the advancement of women globally. One of the most critical issues addressed during the period of the women's decade concerned the effectiveness of national development policies and institutional machineries to facilitate the empowerment of women. It was generally considered that while the outcomes varied, the persistence of structural and cultural barriers tended to weaken the capacity of governments to respond efficiently and effectively, and of women to affect the political and economic process in their best interests. Another significant policy issue, directly related to the first, is the current food crisis in Africa. This crisis is characterized by the increasing inability of most African countries to provide for the food needs of their rapidly growing populations. For the past two decades per capita food production has also declined relative to other world regions and there has been a growing dependence on food imports and food aid, rising food prices and severe hunger and malnutrition. This situation is therefore very crucial, because the agricultural sector forms the base of most African economies and contributes between 40-60 percent of the gross domestic product and over 50 percent of export earnings. Within the light of such issues the Nairobi Manifesto was prepared and endorsed by a special meeting of African women's groups at the Nairobi conference. 1 On the issue of the food crisis in Africa, the position taken was that the lack of food, water and fuel were vital concerns in the lives and responsibilities of women. The persistence of these problems was perceived as linked to colonial and post-colonial export-oriented agricultural policies which had failed to address the issue of national and regional food self-

Electing to Do Women’s Work? Gendered Divisions of Labour in UK Select Committees, 1979-2016

Abstract: Political science has a rich tradition of empirical work on women and gender in governmental institutions. Legislative studies, in particular, has benefited from the attentions of scholars who have sought to “gender political institutions” by emphasizing the gendered aspects of the formal governmental arena . Among the main focuses of these studies are questions around: the substantive representation of women; the recruitment, promotion and behavior of female representatives within legislatures; how best to shift gendered institutional cultures; and whether and how best female representatives are able to access centers of power, accumulate institutional resources and affect decisions on an equal basis once present in governmental institutions .