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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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01 Apr 1994
TL;DR: Barber as mentioned in this paper argues that women were a powerful economic force in the ancient world, with their own industry: fabric, making and wearing the first clothing created from spun fibers, right up to the Industrial Revolution, belonging primarily to women.
Abstract: New discoveries about the textile arts reveal women's unexpectedly influential role in ancient societies. Twenty thousand years ago, women were making and wearing the first clothing created from spun fibers. In fact, right up to the Industrial Revolution the fiber arts were an enormous economic force, belonging primarily to women. Despite the great toil required in making cloth and clothing, most books on ancient history and economics have no information on them. Much of this gap results from the extreme perishability of what women produced, but it seems clear that until now descriptions of prehistoric and early historic cultures have omitted virtually half the picture. Elizabeth Wayland Barber has drawn from data gathered by the most sophisticated new archaeological methods-methods she herself helped to fashion. In a "brilliantly original book" (Katha Pollitt, Washington Post Book World), she argues that women were a powerful economic force in the ancient world, with their own industry: fabric.

81 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the work of elderly men caregivers who care for wives with cognitive impairment related to Alzheimer's type dementia, stroke, brain injury, or other causes was examined, as well as the subjective meanings ascribed to such work.
Abstract: This article examines the work of elderly men caregivers who care for wives with cognitive impairment related to Alzheimer's type dementia, stroke, brain injury, or other causes. Two specific areas of care work are investigate, meal preparation and personal care, as well as the subjective meanings ascribed to such work. Men's unique strengths and vulnerabilities are explored in relation to life course perspectives on the many meanings of work. From a social con-structionist perspective, deeper meanings of manhood and late life masculinity are also interrogated, as men draw upon an array of learned adaptive strategies in meeting the complex demands of care work. This qualitative study was based on in-depth, open-ended interviews with 30 elderly men caregivers in Rochester, New York. Analysis of data reveals that many men struggled with the demands of care work, especially within entrenched gender norms and masculine scripting. Data also demonstrates, however, that men are less avoidant of hands-on, persona...

81 citations

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01 Jan 2008
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate occupational barriers to women's employment in agriculture and self-employment, and find that women's labour force participation is lower than that of men in agriculture.
Abstract: Introduction 1. Women's occupations 2. Women's wages 3. Explaining occupational sorting 4. Testing for occupational barriers in agriculture 5. Barriers to women's employment 6. Occupational barriers in self-employment 7. Women's labour force participation 8. Conclusion Appendixes.

80 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, a close comparison of two Bantustan areas in South Africa: the Matatiele district in the Transkei and Qwaqwa in the Orange Free State is presented.
Abstract: The argument of this article is based on a close comparison of two Bantustan areas in South Africa: the Matatiele district in the Transkei and Qwaqwa in the Orange Free State. Such comparisons are rarely, if ever, attempted, but we contend that they are potentially very useful in illuminating the complexities of social relationships in South Africa's rural periphery. In this article we concentrate on gender relationships. All the Bantustans share certain characteristics that impinge on the nature of gender relationships. Most significant are the overwhelming dependence of households on income derived from remittances, and the fact that migrant‐contract employment opportunities are mainly restricted to men. But Bantustan areas also differ with regard to the availability of residual productive resources (such as arable and pasture land), their residents’ past involvement in wage‐labour and experiences of forced relocation, and in the forms of material differentiation amongst residents. This article explores...

79 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined how Nepal's 1996-2006 civil conflict affected women's decisions to engage in employment using three waves of the Nepal Demographic and Health Survey, and employed a difference-in-difference approach to identify the impact of war on women's employment decisions.
Abstract: This paper examines how Nepal's 1996-2006 civil conflict affected women's decisions to engage in employment Using three waves of the Nepal Demographic and Health Survey, the authors employ a difference-in-difference approach to identify the impact of war on women's employment decisions The results indicate that as a result of the Maoist-led insurgency, women's employment probabilities were substantially higher in 2001 and 2006 relative to the outbreak of war in 1996 These employment results also hold for self-employment decisions, and they hold for smaller sub-samples that condition on husband's migration status and women's status as widows or household heads Numerous robustness checks of the difference-in-difference estimates based on alternative empirical methods provide compelling evidence that women's likelihood of employment increased as a consequence of the conflict

79 citations


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