Research on Women’s Work and the Family at the Urban Institute

1982 ◽  
pp. 321-330
Author(s):  
Sandra S. Tangri
Keyword(s):  
Women's Work ◽  
Urban Institute ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
The Family

Women's Work and the Family Economy in Historical Perspective.

1991 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 754
Author(s):  
Jane Lewis ◽  
Pat Hudson ◽  
W. R. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Family Economy ◽  
The Family

The Division of Matrimonial Property in Tanzania

1990 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 521-526 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rose Mtengeti-Migiro
Keyword(s):  
Working Hours ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Economic Equality ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
The Family ◽  
Long Time ◽  
State Of Affairs

For a long time, women's work has not been valued very highly, mainly because of the belief in many cultures that whatever is undertaken in the house is a natural duty and/or act of love for the husband and the family. Indeed, in many parts of subsistence Africa, the heavy duties performed by women in preparing, planting, weeding, and harvesting crops are regarded as ‘domestic’ commitments and hence not serious labour. This situation can hardly be said to be characteristic of only ‘non-developed’ societies, in which patriarchal attitudes are still dominant, since according to a 1985 study, although women make up more than half of the world's population and do two-thirds of the world's working hours, they receive only one-hundredth of the worl'ds property. This state of affairs, however, is now changing, because as women everywhere unite in order to achieve legal, social, and economic equality, the value attached to their work naturally increases.

Women’s Work and the Family Economy : Textiles and Palm Leaf Hatmaking in New England, 1830–1850

1983 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 297-316
Author(s):  
Thomas Dublin
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
New Hampshire ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Family Economy ◽  
The Family ◽  
Palm Leaf

In May 1832 the recently married Roxanna Bowker Stowell wrote from her new home in St. Johns-bury, Vermont to Dexter Whittemore, a country storekeeper in her native town of Fitzwilliam. New Hampshire. She asked him to send split palm leaf which she hoped to braid into hats and sell back to him for cash to meet family expenses. « [M]once is so very scarce and we must have some, » she wrote. Thirteen years later, fifteen-year old Mary Paul wrote her father from Woodstock, Vermont, where she was living with an aunt and uncle: « I want you to consent to let me go to Lowell if you can. I think it would be much I cannot get if I stay about here.

Women's Work and the Family in Nineteenth-Century Europe

1975 ◽  
Vol 17 (01) ◽  
pp. 36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan W. Scott ◽  
Louise A. Tilly
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
The Family
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