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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 authors re-examine long-standing arguments about the impact of the First World War on women's lives by using the unusual, distinctive case of Dundee, in the UK.
Abstract: This article re-examines long-standing arguments about the impact of the First World War on women’s lives by using the unusual, distinctive case of Dundee. By the late nineteenth-century Dundee had...

6 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the devaluation of women's industrial work during the transition from market socialism to capitalism in Croatia, based on oral history interviews with former workers from Slovenia.
Abstract: This paper examines the devaluation of women’s industrial work during the transition from market socialism to capitalism in Croatia. On the basis of oral history interviews with former workers from...

6 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the connections between welfare state spending and the gendered and classed dimensions of unpaid care work across 29 European nations were assessed, and the connections were found to be causal.
Abstract: This study is the first to explicitly assess the connections between welfare state spending and the gendered and classed dimensions of unpaid care work across 29 European nations. Our research uses...

6 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discussed the transformation and reproduction of conventional role sets of women in the family and in the larger society, particularly at work, and discussed social policy concepts to empower women at work with special emphasis on the use of their acquired high level of general and vocational knowledge and skills.
Abstract: This paper discusses the transformation as well as the reproduction of conventional role sets of women in the family and in the larger society, particularly at work. The analysis is based on a representative sample of families belonging to different social classes and strata. The empirical research strategy was to compare socio-economic status and gender, and thereby to identify typical patterns according to the criteria `socially homogeneous' (spouses with the same SES) and `socially heterogeneous' (spouses with different SES).Inequalities of employed women, especially regarding income distribution and power relations, also persist in a socialist society though the participation of the female workforce is indispensable. They are closely linked with an unequal division of household tasks. In conclusion, social policy concepts are discussed to empower women at work, with special emphasis on the use of their acquired high level of general and vocational knowledge and skills (`qualifications'), and to empowe...

6 citations


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