Gender division of labor in agroforestry activities within households: a case of Wonogiri - Central Java - Indonesia

2010 ◽  
pp. 177-189
Author(s):  
Herien Puspitawati ◽  
Ma’mun Sarma
Keyword(s):  
Division Of Labor ◽  
Gender Division Of Labor ◽  
Central Java

Individualism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Serene J. Khader
Keyword(s):  
Division Of Labor ◽  
Specific Form ◽  
Feminist Critique ◽  
Gender Division Of Labor ◽  
Individual Person ◽  
Transition Costs ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Ideological Assumptions

This chapter argues that independence individualism, a form of individualism that is the object of decolonial feminist critique, is conceptually unnecessary for feminism, and in fact undermines transnational feminist praxis. Opposition to sexist oppression does not logically entail individualism. Adopting the specific form of individualism called “independence individualism,” which holds that individuals should be economically self-sufficient and that only chosen relationships are valuable is likely to worsen the gender division of labor and obscure the transition costs of feminist change. The perceived relationship between independence individualism and feminism is traceable to ideological assumptions that associate capitalism with liberation from tradition, and tradition with patriarchy. The concept of independence individualism is arrived at by examining the justificatory discourses behind ostensibly feminist policies that proclaim the value of the individual person while harming “other” women.

The Gender Division of Labor

2004 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip N. Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Division Of Labor ◽  
Gender Division Of Labor

Gender Division of Labor in Two Javanese Villages

2000 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 415-439 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siti Kusujiarti ◽  
Ann Tickamyer
Keyword(s):  
Division Of Labor ◽  
Gender Division Of Labor

Gender Division of Labor in Two Javanese Villages

2000 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 415-439 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siti Kusujiarti ◽  
Ann Tickamyer
Keyword(s):  
Division Of Labor ◽  
Gender Division Of Labor

Constructing Freedom: Institutional Pathways to Changing the Gender Division of Labor

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth K. Markovits ◽  
Susan Bickford
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Division Of Labor ◽  
The Public ◽  
Gender Division Of Labor ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Paid Labor ◽  
Democratic Freedom ◽  
The Public Sphere

In recent years, there has been renewed public discussion regarding the relationship between women’s equality and their traditional responsibility for carework. In this essay, we analyze the structures of choice and constraint that continue to produce the gender division of family labor and thus women's unequal participation in the public sphere. We conceptualize this as a problem of democratic freedom, one that requires building institutional pathways to sustain women's participation. Drawing on Nancy Hirschmann's arguments about processes of social construction and their relation to freedom, we argue that gender inequality in the public sphere means that women are unfree, in the sense that they are not participating as peers in the material and discursive processes of social construction that then help to shape their own desires and decisions. We use that framework to analyze the current landscape in which different subgroups of women make decisions about paid labor and care work. Our goal is to bring into view the way the social construction of desire interacts with the material context to underwrite inequality between women and men and across different groups of women. Gender equality and the project of democracy require participatory parity between women and men in the public sphere. We therefore turn in our last section to an effort to imagine how public policies could construct pathways that can help interrupt and undo the gender division of labor, and thus better support democratic freedom.

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