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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 Feb 1988TL;DR: A survey of women's work in Great Britain in the century 1840-1940 can be found in this paper, with a focus on women's working conditions and status and the roles of government, employers and unions.
Abstract: This pamphlet attempts to survey women’s work in Great Britain in the century 1840–1940. This first chapter raises some of the general questions, problems and characteristics of women’s work in the period; the second examines in more detail women’s paid full-time work; the third chapter looks at some of the social and economic aspects of married women’s work both paid and unpaid; and the last chapter considers changes in women’s working conditions and status and the roles of government, employers and unions.
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TL;DR: Katherine Pennington's painting You're My Tenth Customer depicts a woman entrepreneur at work as discussed by the authors, which is the focus of many of the small loan programs that support entrepreneurship among women.
Abstract: Katherine Pennington's painting You're My Tenth Customer depicts a woman entrepreneur at work. Facilitating entrepreneurship among women through small loan programs is the focus of many of the pove...
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01 Jan 2008
TL;DR: A survey of creche facilities and childcare practices of working women was conducted in the Viluppuram district (Tamil Nadu) in July 2007, on the sidelines of a social audit of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (nrega).
Abstract: 10 social audit of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (nrega) indicates that the programme can have a positive impact on the social and economic well-being of rural labourers and their families.1 In particular, it holds the powerful prospect of bringing major changes in the lives of women. This is especially true in a state like Tamil Nadu, where women constitute an overwhelming proportion (more than 80 per cent) of nrega workers. At the same time, however, some significant challenges frustrate this transformative promise of the nrega. One of them is the issue of childcare, which is easily overlooked. To examine this aspect, a survey of creche facilities and childcare practices of working women was conducted in the Viluppuram district (Tamil Nadu) in July 2007, on the sidelines of a social audit of the nrega.2 The findings indicate that childcare is a significant problem for many of them. This is particularly true for mothers of children below the age of three years. This article elaborates the difficult predicament of young mothers in the Viluppuram district who work under the nrega, even as it plays a positive role in their lives.3
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