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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 examined the changes in women's work in two northern Thai villages in the transition from subsistence to market economy and found that women's strategies in taking on additional duties and the devaluation of their own contribution reinforce the patriarchal social system and bolster the subsistence family farm economy.
Abstract: This article examines the changes in women's work in two northern Thai villages in the transition from subsistence to market economy. Instead of examining the impact of the economic changes on women's work adjustments, the study focusses on the effects of culture in buffering these changes. It borrows from Gramsci's concept of hegemony to understand how the traditional Thai culture influences the manner in which women's work compensates for men's frequent absence from the family farm to seek employment in the cities. Their strategies in taking on additional duties and the de-valuation of their own contribution reinforce the patriarchal social system and bolster the subsistence family farm economy. What was the impact of industrialization on women's work? There is no simple or single answer…' (Tilly & Scott, 1987, p. 227)
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TL;DR: This paper explored the gendered nature of partnership working within regeneration policy in England by using a case study of a New Deal for Communities Partnership and explored the experiences of women working as unpaid community activists and paid community professionals.
Abstract: This article contributes to debates about regeneration policy by developing a gendered perspective on neighbourhood partnerships. It explores the gendered nature of partnership working within regeneration policy in England by using a case study of a New Deal for Communities Partnership. Empirical data is used to explore the experiences of women working as unpaid community activists and paid community professionals. The article seeks to place women‟s perspectives and their everyday lives at the heart of debates about regeneration policy and partnerships.
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16 citations
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01 Jan 1979
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TL;DR: This article argued that the economic miracle of South Korea is closely related to the patriarchal family ideology of upper-middle-class families, and that families function as "shock absorbers" in the rapid advance of late-industrial capitalism.
Abstract: LATE INDUSTRIALIZATION IN SOUTH KOREA has affected gender relationships and class relationships, both of which can be observed in urban families. This article focuses on the nature of women's work and family structure in upper- middle-class families, which most urban studies of developing countries have ignored. It contrasts existing models of female labor-force participation with the voices of upper-middle-class housewives who engage in various labor activities to enhance the social status of the family. The article argues that the "economic miracle" of South Korea is closely related to the patriarchal family ideology of upper–middle–class families, and that families function as "shock absorbers" in the rapid advance of late-industrial capitalism. Not only men's productive work, but also women's reproductive work, is highly valued, by the state and by the society in general, for its contribution to rapid economic development. Late industrialization is a complex process that provides both liberating and oppressive contexts for gender practices and creates contradictory interpretations of gender roles. [South Korea, late industrialization, gender, class, urban families]
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