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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: In this paper, the authors investigated the sharp fall in the number of women workers in Indian coal mines and explored the specificity of women in their demands for gender equity, and examined four main factors responsible for the gradual decline in women's participation in Indian collieries: the laws surrounding women's rights to work; the gendered impacts of technology use; the neglect of women's needs and interests by relevant trade unions; and the gender discriminatory attitudes and instruments of the mining companies which have produced a certain kind of ideal worker who is also a gendered being.
Abstract: This paper investigates the sharp fall in the number of women workers in Indian coal mines, and explores the specificity of women workers in their demands for gender equity. It examines four main factors responsible for the gradual decline in women's participation in Indian collieries: the laws surrounding women's rights to work; the gendered impacts of technology use; the neglect of women workers' needs and interests by the relevant trade unions; and the gender discriminatory attitudes and instruments of the mining companies which have produced a certain kind of ideal worker who is also a gendered being. The paper asserts women's right to mine in order to earn a living, and to demand an equal share in the benefits that mining can offer.
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17 Jun 2019
TL;DR: In this paper, a comparative economic perspective of women's status and roles in modernizing regions and industrial economies is presented. But the focus is on women's work and not women's lives.
Abstract: Part 1 Overview: promise and disappointment of the modern era - equality for women, Jane L. Ziele women's work, women's lives - a comparative economic perspective, Francine D. Blau and Marianne A. Ferber. Part 2 Modernizing regions: caught in the crisis - women in the economies of sub-Saharan Africa, Gordon Weil development and changing gender roles in Latin America and the Caribbean, Helen I. Safa women, employment, and social change in the Middle East and North Africa, Valentine M. Moghadam. Part 3 Socialist economies in transition: women and work in Communist and Post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe, Sharon L. Wolchik the interaction of women's work and family roles in the USSR, Gail W. Lapidus. Part 4 Industrial economies: women's labour market experiences in the two Germanies, Hedwig Rudolph politics, progress and compromise - women's work and lives in Great Britain, Emma MacLennan central in the family and marginal in the work force - women's place in Japanese society, Ann Cordilia and Kazuko Ohta women and the welfare state in the Nordic countries, Elina Haavio-Mannila and Kaisa Kauppinen work-family policies in the United States, Joseph H. Pleck. Part 5 Conclusion: progress or stalemate? a cross-national comparison of women's status and roles, Hilda Kahne.
16 citations
Dissertation•
01 Jan 2012
TL;DR: Vibert et al. as mentioned in this paper examined the development of these roles in the missionary and secular philanthropic communities and how these women used periodicals as a space to implicitly demonstrate their competence and explicitly argue for their status as educators and medical workers.
Abstract: Supervisory Committee Dr. Elizabeth Vibert, (Department of History) Supervisor Dr. Lynne Marks, (Department of History) Departmental Member This paper discusses the means by which some British women created professional roles for themselves out of their philanthropic work in India between 1880 and 1900. I examine the development of these roles in the missionary and secular philanthropic communities and how these women used periodicals as a space to implicitly demonstrate their competence and explicitly argue for their status as educators and medical workers. Colonial India provided a particular context of imperial ideals and gendered realities: Indian women were believed to be particularly deprived of learning, medical care and ―civilisation‖ by custom and culture, and Englishwomen could call on the rhetoric of imperial duty to legitimise their care of these disadvantaged women. I argue that India provided the means for British women to demonstrate their capabilities and to involve themselves in the ongoing nineteenth-century project to incorporate women into previously masculine professional societies.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine women's use of divination consultation and their speculation about illness caused by witchcraft that influence the construction of witchcraft accusation in rural Mijikenda communities on the Kenya coast.
Abstract: This article examines women’s use of divination consultation and their speculation about illness caused by witchcraft that influence the construction of witchcraft accusation in rural Mijikenda communities on the Kenya coast. I have decided to call all of these activities women’s “work” because Mijikenda women often referred to them as “work” in their discussions with me. I explain why these activities are included in women’s general responsibilities toward relatives and show how women use them to transform local relations of power. I conclude that these aspects of Mijikenda women’s “work” must be understood as both instrumental action that alters the political and economic relationships between women and the men who they accuse, and moral action that develops women’s sense of their human potential and personal capacity.
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