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, rhetoric and regulation: Women's work in the Civil Service and the London County Council, 1900–55

Abstract: Introduction 1. Work for women? Challenges to the gendering of routine work in the LCC and the Civil Service, 1914-39 2. Trying to get equal opportunities: women in the higher grades of the LCC and the Civil Service in the first half of the twentieth century 3: 'Endless arguments about sex and salaries': the First World War, reconstruction and the campaigns for equal pay, 1914-24 4. 'As a matter of justice': the equal pay campaigns from 1924 to 1939 5 The slow road to victory: the equal pay campaigns from 1939 to 1954 6. Lark rise to spinsterhood? Women, the public service and marriage bar policy, 1914-46 7. Disabled husbands, deserted wives, working widows: the marriage bar in public servants' private lives until 1946 Conclusion Index -- .

Women’s work is never done: a sociological exploration of gender into the household division of labour and mothering roles and its contemporary implications for women in performing the “second shift”

Abstract: This thesis will examine why women are still expected to perform the “second shift” of both housework and childcare within contemporary society To discuss this, an exploration of gender and feminist literature will explain the way men and women become associated with different gender traits and roles which occur through the socialisation process In addition, a contemporary perspective will examine the changes that have occurred for women within the public areas of work and the implications for women in combining both their work and family obligations This thesis will demonstrate that while feminine roles have been analysed by gender theory, further work needs to be done to challenge men’s roles within the home which has reinforced women’s continued association with their familial responsibilities