Silver-Haired Working Women: Intergenerational Contract, Elderly Care and Gender in Lianhe

2020 ◽  
pp. 151-175
Author(s):  
Yuqin Huang
Keyword(s):  
Elderly Care ◽  
Working Women ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Intergenerational Contract

“The Presence of Improper Females” Reforming Theater in Boston and Providence, 1820s–1840s

2021 ◽  
Vol 94 (3) ◽  
pp. 394-430
Author(s):  
Sara E. Lampert
Keyword(s):  
Sex Work ◽  
Working Women ◽  
Gender Politics ◽  
Moral Reform ◽  
The Third ◽  
And Gender

Abstract This article examples the class and gender politics of theater reform in Boston, MA and Providence, RI of the 1820s-1840s focused on the third tier and sex work or prostitution in theaters. Both regulatory campaigns and Christian or moral reform mobilized constructions of the prostitute as predator while encouraging new policing of working women.

scholarly journals Population Ageing and Its Challenges: Filial Responsibilities for Elderly Parents in Lithuania

2013 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-33
Author(s):  
Margarita Gedvilaitė-Kordušienė
Keyword(s):  
Elderly Care ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Demographic Ageing ◽  
Elderly Parents ◽  
Financial Difficulties ◽  
Working Lives ◽  
Structure Changes ◽  
Working Age ◽  
And Gender ◽  
High Level

The paper addresses the questions of demographic ageing at the beginning of the 21st century and the attitudes about who should be responsible for the elderly care in Lithuania. The analysis of age structure changes revealed three ways of demographic ageing: ‘from below’ (the youngest part of the population is decreasing), ‘from above’ (the oldest part of the population is increasing), and decrease of the young working-age population. The analysis of ageing in Lithuania in the context of the EU revealed that Lithuania has moved from the group of the demographically youngest countries to the group of the oldest ones. This has happened in one decade and illustrates rapid ageing in Lithuania. Within such context, the question “Who should be responsible for the elderly care?” is of particular importance. Based on the second wave of the Generations and Gender Survey (conducted in 2009), the responses who should take care of the elderly are contradictory. The biggest part of respondents is in favour of the division of responsibilities for the elderly care between family and society. The same part of respondents considers this to be family responsibility. Meanwhile, financial support is mainly considered to be the responsibility of the society. The analysis of filial responsibilities for elderly parents revealed a high level of normative solidarity. Most respondents agree with the statement where the support type for elderly parents is not defined (i.e. that children should take responsibility for caring for their parents when parents are in need). When the types of support are defined, the respondents are also likely to agree (i.e. children ought to provide financial help for their parents when their parents are having financial difficulties; children should have their parents to live with them when parents can no longer look after themselves). Less agreement was found on the statement requiring the reorganisation of children’s lives in order to fulfil filial responsibilities (i.e. that children should adjust their working lives to the needs of their parents) and on the statement measuring gender division in care provision for elderly parents (i.e. when parents are in need, daughters should take more caring responsibility than sons). The differences in attitudes between children’s, parents’ and grandparents’ generations were not statistically significant. The logistic regressions revealed that significant predictors enhancing the chances of agreement on filial responsibilities are respondents’ gender, age, partnership and occupational statuses and type of residential area.

Power and Protection

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurie B. Green
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Working Women ◽  
Racial Justice ◽  
World War ◽  
Community Activists ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Martin Luther King ◽  
Sanitation Workers

Gender bound together labor and civil rights, serving as a key axis in the struggles for racial justice from World War II to the 1968 sanitation workers strike, including the tragic murder of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Although the conflicts addressed in this essay are crucial to understanding the dramatic events of the later 1960s, they are usually obscured by national civil rights narratives that emphasize desegregation and voting rights, thereby pushing issues reflecting the intersection of labor, racial justice, and gender to the sidelines. This essay highlights conflicts ranging from the denial of World War II defense work, other than menial labor, to African American women to the support movement for the sanitation workers. In placing themselves quite literally on the front lines of that movement, women articulated their own interpretations of the strike’s slogan, “I am a man!” in relation to their own struggles as working women, mothers, and community activists.

WOMEN LEADERS, VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE:A PHENOMENOLOGY

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-138
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Joy o Serrano-Quijan
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Women Leaders ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Working Women ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Abused Women ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
And Gender

The purpose of this phenomenological qualitative study was to give light to the experiences of working women and women leaders who are also victims of domestic violence. This study may inspire women from all walks of life and to give voice to the abused women to stand for their rights in advancing gender equality and development. Five informants from Matanao, Davao del Sur were selected through purposive sampling on February 18, 2017, for an in-depth interview. The research design employed in this study was phenomenology as it explained well the experiences and perspectives of women leaders on domestic violence. The results of the interview were transcribed, translated, and coded to produce themes. Several issues escalated as regards to the narratives of working women leaders who are abused at home, the following were the themes: anxiety and signs of depression, prejudice, low self-esteem, and poor disposition, and resilience. As to their insights that they can share with other women and to the academe: disputing chauvinism, the optimistic outlook in life, faith in God, tenets on leadership, and gender distinctions.

Working Women: International Perspectives on Labour and Gender Ideology

1992 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 286
Author(s):  
Susan Vincent ◽  
Nanneke Redclift ◽  
M. Thea Sinclair
Keyword(s):  
Gender Ideology ◽  
Working Women ◽  
International Perspectives ◽  
And Gender

Power and Gender

2019 ◽  
pp. 91-112
Author(s):  
Zahra Khamseh
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
National Culture ◽  
Working Women ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
Direct Influence ◽  
Organizational Life ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Female Employees ◽  
And Gender

The chapter seeks to explore the roots of gender inequality through the personal experiences of working women in senior positions which are extracted from their stories about their families, societies, and organizations. To conduct the research, Hofstede's cultural dimensions were employed as a tool to determine the national culture which has direct influence on organizational culture which dominates the workplace and influences immensely every sphere of women's activities in the workplace. In this research, consideration is given to cultural aspects through data gathered from educated Iranian, Malay, and Turkish female employees illustrating their organizational life.

Culture, Class and Gender in the Victorian Novel: Gentlemen, Gents and Working Women

2000 ◽  
Vol 95 (4) ◽  
pp. 1072
Author(s):  
Catherine Maxwell ◽  
Arlene Young
Keyword(s):  
Working Women ◽  
Victorian Novel ◽  
And Gender
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