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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: The authors traces how Utopian expectations for a postfeminist work tool and recommendations about where to place it on the domestic map ultimately collided with the gendered constraints built into the pre-established territories of the US home.
Abstract: During the early 1990s, marketing discourse in key US magazines attached a newly invented “feminine”; identity to the personal computer, fuelling a second great wave of home adoption. These public fantasies, which attempted to ease the machine into the pre‐gendered spaces of the American family home, drew upon a slate of postfeminist appeals, emphasizing the PC's value in women's work‐both income‐producing and family‐centered. This three‐part paper traces how Utopian expectations for a postfeminist work tool and recommendations about where to place it on the domestic map ultimately collided with the gendered constraints built into the pre‐established territories of the US home. The first part of the paper documents the addition of postfeminist work applications to a formerly masculinized technology; the second part reviews the marketing appeals that extolled the PC's potential to help a woman produce income, manage her household, and provide educational advantages to her children, all at once; the final p...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the part of the female life course which ranges from late childhood and dependence to early social maturity, and try to shed some light on the specific issues involved in women's work during the transition from a feudal to a capitalist mode of production within agriculture, and from rural to urban-industrial patterns of life.
Abstract: Europe has been rather different from that in other cultural periods and areas. This experience has been the result of changes in a number of demographic and social traits, such as age at marriage, labor force participation, household organization, and property relations. In social history these traits have mostly been described and discussed separately, but it may be argued that in reality they are but bits and pieces of the same general pattern. It is not the purpose of this paper to make a full and systematic analysis of this European pattern, but rather to focus on that part of the female life course which ranges from late childhood and dependence to early social maturity. In this way I will try to shed some light on the specific issues involved in women’s work during the transition from a feudal to a capitalist mode of production within agriculture, and from rural to urban-industrial patterns of life.
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TL;DR: This issue of Ergonomics is devoted to exploring some of the many contexts in which gender and sex are relevant to ergonomics intervention and to investigating the mechanisms linking gender to work activity and the interface between ergonomists and work-family balancing.
Abstract: This issue of Ergonomics is devoted to exploring some of the many contexts in which gender and sex1 are relevant to ergonomics intervention and to investigating the mechanisms linking gender to wor...
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TL;DR: Findings related to women's personal work are presented, one aspect of pregnancy work identified in the larger study (1996–2002), and suggest the need for more attention to the complex personal work of pregnancy by clinicians and researchers and for continued expansion of conceptual frameworks of women's work during pregnancy.
Abstract: The purpose of this qualitative research was to explore women's experiences and perceptions of work during a first pregnancy. In this article we present findings related to women's personal work, one aspect of pregnancy work identified in the larger study (1996–2002). Qualitative data were collected through semi-structured interviews with a purposeful, convenience sample of 29 women, ages 18–40 years, from diverse ethnic/racial, social, and economic backgrounds. Their personal work of pregnancy included growing a child, creating self as a mother, preparing for the baby, situating self vis-a-vis parental and societal models of motherhood, and personal relationship work. A first pregnancy transformed women's work as they added pregnancy to the mix and experienced significant shifts and transformations in personal and social identities and in the meanings, values, and priorities they attached to work. Findings were limited by the context and experiences of the participants in this convenience sample...
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TL;DR: This paper used data from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Labor Market Experience of Young Women in the United States to examine how young women's plans affect their subsequent work experiences and earnings.
Abstract: The authors use data from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Labor Market Experience of Young Women in the United States to examine how young womens plans affect their subsequent work experiences and earnings The results suggest that "eighty percent of women with work plans were in the labor force while 50 percent who did not plan to work were employed; those women with consistent work expectations earned higher wages" (EXCERPT)
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