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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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TL;DR: For example, the authors found that women of all races and classes confront systematic disadvantages as workers, and despite twenty years of equal opportunity legislation, women continue to be confined to female job ghettos.
Abstract: With the recent surge in public attention to the "feminization of poverty,"1 feminist policy analysts have tended to subsume the economic privations of women of color under the general rubric of "problems of working women."2 Indeed, recent economic trends provide some support for the argument that gender inequity at work has become the crossroads at which the interests of all women intersect. The rise in female employment rates, the decline in real earnings among male workers, and the increasing incidence of divorce and of female-headed households suggests a growing convergence in the economic circumstances of White women and women of color.3 Women of all races and classes confront systematic disadvantages as workers. Despite twenty years of equal opportunity legislation, women continue to be confined to female job ghettos. Today, two-thirds of all working women are employed in predominately female occupations.4 Largely because of this continuing occupational segregation, the discrepancy between men's and women's earnings has changed very little in the past half-century. Since the 1940s, women have earned between 58 and 65 percent of what men
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01 Jan 2009
TL;DR: Labours of Love: Female Servants and the Marriage Plot The Spatial Syntax of Midwifery and Wetnursing Divine Drudgery: The Spiritual Logic of Housework Household Pedagogies: Female Educators and the Language of Legacy.
Abstract: Labours of Love: Female Servants and the Marriage Plot The Spatial Syntax of Midwifery and Wetnursing Divine Drudgery: The Spiritual Logic of Housework Household Pedagogies: Female Educators and the Language of Legacy
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TL;DR: In this article, the impact of privatization on the conditions of employment of women who work as cleaners is discussed. But the focus is on women's cleaning jobs in the National Health Service (NHS).
Abstract: This article is about the impact of'privatization' on the conditions of employment of women who work as cleaners. It comes out of research in progress on the cleaning industry as a whole, but here the focus is on women's cleaning jobs in the National Health Service (NHS). It argues that as more and more cleaning services are sub-contracted out to private contractors, the already poor pay and conditions found in this work can be seen to be deteriorating even further. This is because it is very difElcult to protect the pay and conditions of sub-contracted employment either through employment legislation or trade union
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that organizational restructuring, technological change and redeployment of labour have very different consequences for women and for men in the food industry in Austria, Germany and Britain.
Abstract: It is widely assumed that the development of enhanced skills appropriate to advanced technologies is an important means of increasing the employability of the socially excluded. This article tests this assumption through case studies in the food industry in Austria, Germany and Britain. The findings indicate that organizational restructuring, technological change and redeployment of labour have very different consequences for women and for men. In all three countries the restructuring of work and skills increased the marginalization of women, reinforcing gender cleavage.
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