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.

Women's work interruptions and career prospects in Germany and Sweden

Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to focus on two welfare state regimes with differing degrees of de‐familialisation strategies, Germany and Sweden, to study whether and how women's career interruptions influence their labour market prospects. By comparing women with continuous careers to those with discontinuous careers due to: parental leave or homemaking; unemployment; or other reasons, the authors explore the support for the skill depreciation hypothesis and signalling theory. Depending on the type of welfare state regime, the authors expect women to be subject to varying degrees of career punishment for time spent out of the labour market.Design/methodology/approach – Cox proportional hazard regression models of the transition rate of an upward or downward occupational move among women in the labour market were estimated.Findings – Focusing on upward career moves, the results show no significant relationship between a career interruption and upward occupational moves in Germany. In Sweden, the l...

Women’s work: the impact of the COVID crisis on Australian women

Abstract: The [Coronavirus Disease 2019] COVID-19 recession was Australia's deepest since the Great Depression. This report argues that, while all Australians felt some effects, the economic pain was not shared equally. This recession hit young people, those in insecure work, and women particularly hard. Indeed, women are recovering from a 'triple-whammy' - they were more likely to lose their jobs, more likely to do a lot more unpaid work, and less likely to get government support. Women's employment improved as the economy re-opened, but many groups have not caught up, and on current forecasts, unemployment will remain too high for too long. Mothers in couples, and single parents (80 per cent of whom are women), were more likely to leave the labour force than other groups. Women of childbearing age also gave up study in record numbers. For single parents, paid hours remain substantially below pre-pandemic levels.

Women's Work Expectations and Labor-Market Experience in Early and Middle Family Life-Cycle Stages.

Abstract: Two issues are addressed in this research: the effect of work expectations for age 35 on labor-market attachment during childrearing years, and the extent to which work expectations interacted with changes in women's sociodemographic characteristics to influence the extent of employment. The National Longitudinal Survey of the Labor Market Experiences of Young Women is used in estimating the work history of women in the sample. Findings indicate that employment expectations significantly increased the length of women's employment and that the effects of marital and fertility variables differed considerably for those who planned employment for midlife and those who did not. The implications of these and other findings are discussed in the context of major demographic and economic change that occurred over the 1970s.

Capitalist organization of production through non‐capitalist relations: women's role in a pilot resettlement in Upper Volta

Abstract: In Upper Volta, pilot resettlement schemes for the Volta Valley Authority, designed as models for some multi‐million dollar projects financed by the World Bank and others, have been found to be nearly intolerable to the women because of the lack of basic facilities, such as market places, land to grow the family food, village wells, grain mills and other facilities regarded as essentials in their home village. Many women have insisted on leaving. Getting to see the invisible women’, The Economist,April 1979). In examining why there should be the reported resistance by women, this analysis of one pilot scheme in Upper Volta shows how it is essentially a capital‐enterprise that utilises not wage labour but scheme ‘members’. The scheme's profitability is thus premised upon a certain, ‘nuclear’ family structure, which in turn presupposes a much greater burden on women than is customary in Voltaic society.

Is Women’s Work a Pathway to their Agency in Rural Minya, Egypt?

Abstract: Whether work is performed for household members’ consumption (subsistence work) or for sale to others (market work), it may be an enabling resource for women’s agency, or their capacity to define and act upon their goals. The present paper asks: Do women who engage in market work have higher agency in the three domains of economic decision-making, freedom of movement, and equitable gender role attitudes, compared to those who engage in subsistence work and those who do not work? To address this question, we leverage data from a probability sample of ever-married women in rural Minya, Egypt (N = 600). We use structural equation models with propensity score adjustment to estimate the relationship between women’s work and three domains of their agency. We find no effect on gender attitudes or decision making. However, women’s subsistence and market work are associated with increasingly higher factor means for freedom of movement, compared to not working. We conclude that in rural Minya, the relationship between women’s work and their agency depends on the type of work they perform and the dimension of agency under consideration, with the rewards of market work exceeding those of subsistence work in the domain of freedom of movement alone.