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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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16 Sep 2014
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted an analysis of the backgrounds, levels of contentment, and aspirations of 25 women beach vendors interviewed in Acapulco in 2010 and found that half of the women vendors were very content with their self-employment vending wares on the beach, a few because they could set their own hours, and a few having no boss.
Abstract: Purpose
Although there have been many articles and books on street vendors, ambulant and fixed, around the world, and many works written about them in Mexico, little has been done on the ubiquitous ambulant beach vendors in tourist centers.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper offers an analysis of the backgrounds, levels of contentment, and aspirations of 25 women beach vendors interviewed in Acapulco in 2010.
Findings
A third of the women beach vendors had fathers who were peasants, and others had grandparents who were. Thus the article shows light on the fate of some of the offspring of a dispossessed peasantry. Far more than half of the women vendors were very content with their self-employment vending wares on the beach, a few because they could set their own hours, and a few because they had no boss. Other’s contentment was linked to the fact that they could help support their children. Part of this help meant keeping them in school. This was true whether the women were married, widowed, or abandoned. Not all were content, however, and this underscores the importance of their income to their households. Most of the women, though not all, had aspirations for more education and better work, whether in the formal or the informal economy.
Social implications
The women can be seen as marginalized because of their current poverty, and many because of past poverty leading to a lack of educational opportunities when they were young. They value education for their children.
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28 May 2010
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors measure labour force participation to measure contemporary labour markets, and does a poor job of measuring work, particularly women's work, in the past and present.
Abstract: Labour force participation was designed to measure contemporary labour markets, and does a poor job of measuring work, particularly women’s work, in the past. When we measure labour force participa...
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TL;DR: A woman family physician in rural practice recently commented to me: “My male colleague did not even know my patient had depression, but that is all she wants to talk about with me.
Abstract: A woman family physician in rural practice recently commented to me: “My male colleague did not even know my patient had depression, but that is all she wants to talk about with me.” A colleague in academic family medicine echoed a similar perspective: “Well of course female physicians are
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