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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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03 Oct 2011
TL;DR: The Shape of Women's Work Pathways: Need, Choice and Women's Strategies as discussed by the authors explores the shape of women's work trajectories and how women develop early expectations about work.
Abstract: CHAPTER 1: Women's Work Trajectories: Need, Choice and Women's Strategies PART I: EXPECTATIONS ABOUT WORK CHAPTER 2: The Shape of Women's Work Pathways CHAPTER 3: A Major Career Woman? How Women Develop Early Expectations about Work PART II: WORK PATHWAYS CHAPTER 4: Staying Steady: Good Work and Family Support Across Classes CHAPTER 5: Pulling Back: Divergent Routes to Similar Pathways CHAPTER 6: A Life Interrupted PART III: NEGOTIATING EXPECTATIONS CHAPTER 7: For the Family: How Women Account for Work Decisions CHAPTER 8: Having it All? Egalitarian Dreams Deferred Appendix Notes References Index
147 citations
TL;DR: The authors reviewed and analyzed the methodology and findings of 50 studies of both women's work and infant feeding practices and concluded that overall there is little evidence of a negative effect of maternal employment on child nutrition, and therefore no justification for limiting women's labor force participation on the grounds of promoting child welfare.
147 citations
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01 Jan 1989
TL;DR: Tapestries of Life as mentioned in this paper proposes a way of putting women at the center of our thinking by structuring it out of the dailiness of women's lives, and explores how to promote balance in a system that institutionalizes class, race, and gender inequities at every level.
Abstract: Tapestries of Life proposes a way of putting women at the center of our thinking by structuring it out of the dailiness of women's lives. The focus is on women of diverse races, classes, ages, and geographic regions in the United States. Aptheker draws upon the works of women writers, poets, artists, dramatists, dancers, musicians, and academics as well as the words of women factory workers, domestics, and agricultural laborers. She explores how to promote balance in a system that institutionalizes class, race, and gender inequities at every level.
147 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used micro data for nine developing countries to investigate whether women living in places where more time is needed for water collection tend to participate less in income-earning market-based activities and the education outcomes of their children tend to be worse.
Abstract: Poor rural women in the developing world spend considerable time collecting water. Do women living in places where more time is needed for water collection tend to participate less in income-earning market-based activities? Do the education outcomes of their children tend to be worse? We use micro data for nine developing countries to help address these questions. Our primary aim is to describe the patterns in the data rather than to infer causality, although we do treat the household-level access to water as endogenous, assuming that community-level access is exogenous conditional on a wide range of geographic factors. Better access to water is not found to be associated with greater off-farm paid work but is associated with less unpaid work for women. In countries where substantial gender gaps in schooling exist, both boys’ and girls’ enrollments also tend to be better.
146 citations
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01 Nov 1996
TL;DR: In this article, women's work and technology gender relations in the shaping of technologies information technologies, and women's employment secretaries and seamstresses, clerks and cashiers are discussed.
Abstract: Introduction - the terrain of this book. Perspectives on women's work and technology gender relations in the shaping of technologies information technologies and the shaping of women's employment secretaries and seamstresses, clerks and cashiers - information technologies and women's labour processes women in systems design - values, methods and artefacts the lessons of feminist research on women's work and IT.
141 citations