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.

A large and troubling iceberg: sexism and misogyny in women’s work as sport coaches

Abstract: In the wake of a number of high profile cases, sport organisations in Canada, are taking abuse and harassment in sport more seriously. For the most part, recent initiatives have addressed the harms...

The Role of Women in Agriculture and Rural Development in Turkey

Abstract: This study focuses on the role of rural women in agricultural production activities and rural development in Turkey and is based mainly on secondary sources of data. It describes their present situation compared to that of men across rural and urban sectors. Findings of eight research studies on Turkey were used in the paper. These studies surveyed 662 rural women in 105 villages located across various regions of Turkey. In addition some other secondary sources were also used in the study. Data discussed in this paper illustrates the important role played by women in agriculture in the country. In order to explain this more clearly issues relating to reproductive work known as womens work and womens contribution to agricultural production are discussed. In order to explain rural womens contribution to agricultural activities more concretely research conducted in different regions of Turkey was examined. For this purpose research findings on womens contribution in different agricultural production activities were examined separately. Data collected from research studies highlight the role and work of rural women in agriculture as farmers in Turkey. (authors)

Differences in men's and women's work, care, and leisure time

Abstract: The economic crisis has profoundly affected the labour market and private life of men and women. This study examines the interrelation of policies with the ways women and men allocate time to paid work, care and leisure and the gendered outcomes produced in different socio-economic and cultural settings. It shows that policies are powerful tools which cn contribute to a better work-life balance and transform gender roles in accordance to the targets of EU2020 strategy and EU28 commitment to gender equality.

Stage Mothers: A Qualitative Analysis of Women’s Work Experiences as Mothers in Toronto Theatre

Abstract: Despite the fact that the representation of patriarchal motherhood has been ubiquitous in dramatic literature as it continues to be reified, codified and upheld as one of-if not the most-central relationships in the nuclear family, making it a much studied element of early human development and leaving it well documented in the annals of theatre history, mothering remains, with the exception of a handful of references, a topic that has been all but absent fiom writing on women's theatre practice. There are reasons for this dearth of scholarship, to be sure. Ostensibly, patriarchal divisions of the public and private spheres of life have deliberately relegated women's theatre practice as external from their domestic responsibilities by seeing childrearing as women's work that is separate from any they might perform in the public realm. But as Adrienne Rich (1986) and other feminist theorists (i.e., Peters, 1997;Abbeyand O'ReiUy, 1998; Fox, 1998; D u q , Mandell & Pupo, 1989) have taught us, motherhood is a part of the paid labour force and is present in each and eve~ywork sector in which women participate. As feminist sociologist Bonnie Fox notes:

Household childcare choices and women's work behavior in Russia

Abstract: The author models mothers'participation in the labor force, their working hours, and household demand for childcare in Russia. The model estimates the effects of the price of childcare, mothers'wages, and household income on household behavior and well-being. The theoretical model yields several predictions. To test these, reduced-form equations of the discrete and continuous household choices are estimated jointly using the method of semi-parametric full information maximum likelihood. This method controls for the correlation of error terms across outcomes, and the correlation of error terms that can result when panel data are used. The results of this analysis indicate that the extent to which mothers participate in the labor force, and for how many hours, depends on the costs of childcare and on what level of hourly wage is available to them and to other members of the household. The author's simulations show that family allowances - intended to reduce poverty - do not significantly affect the household choice of childcare arrangements. Replacing family allowances with childcare subsidies might have a strong positive effect on women's participation in the labor force and thus could be effective in reducing poverty.