scholarly journals How Men Valued Women's Work: Labour In and Outside the Home in Post-War Britain

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 454-468
Author(s):  
Laura King
Keyword(s):  
Women's Work ◽  
Married Women ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Paid Work ◽  
Female Labour ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Post War ◽  
Definition Of

AbstractThis article examines men's valuing of women's work in the post-1945 period. It considers men's perspectives on female labour in and outside the home in the context of women's wartime work, the increase in married women working and the greater involvement of men in family life. I argue that men saw their wives’ and partners’ work as of lesser value than their own, in various ways, even if the money women's paid work brought in could significantly improve living standards. This was true even in the most caring, loving relationships. The article employs a broad definition of value, considering the social and cultural value of work alongside its economic outcomes. It places subjective accounts from interviews within a wider cultural and political context and contributes a new perspective to post-war British historiography by focusing on both paid labour and domestic work, and the negotiation of value between men and women.

An Estimation of the Effects of Women's Work on Available Leisure Time

1988 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 478-495 ◽  
Author(s):  
JUANITA FIRESTONE ◽  
BETH ANNE SHELTON
Keyword(s):  
Leisure Time ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Married Women ◽  
Household Labor ◽  
Path Model ◽  
Paid Work ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Paid Labor ◽  
Negative Effect

In this article we examine the leisure time expenditures of married women in the paid labor force. Our analysis delineates two categories of leisure activities (active and passive) that are differentially affected by women's work. Using the 1981 Time Use Study (Juster, Hill, Stafford, and Parsons, 1983), we estimate a path model of the amount of leisure time available to married women showing the effects of time spent in paid labor, age, number of children, and time spent on household labor on available leisure time. We estimate that women's responsibilities for paid work and unpaid household labor come at the expense of their leisure time. Paid work time has an estimated negative effect on both active and passive leisure time, while household labor time has an estimated direct negative effect on total leisure time. We speculate that because paid work and household tasks are requisite for most women today they must schedule leisure time around both activities.

Don’t tell them I can type: negotiating women’s work in production in the post-war ABC

2016 ◽  
Vol 161 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kylie Andrews
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Public Broadcasting ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
The Social ◽  
Collective Biography ◽  
Post War

This article examines the pervasive mechanisms of discrimination in Australian public broadcasting in the 1950s and 1960s and considers how concepts of femininity were engaged to maintain the sexual division of labour within one of Australia’s leading cultural institutions, the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC). Constructing a collective biography of female producers who challenged gendered work practices, it discusses the obstacles that confronted women in production and considers the social, economic and industrial factors that allowed certain women to become producers when many failed to escape the ABC’s typing pool. Referring to case studies derived from biographical memory sources and industrial documentation, this article historicises the careers of radio and television producers and contextualises their histories against data found in the 1977 Women in the ABC report, to re-imagine the nature of women’s work in Australian broadcasting in the post-war era.

scholarly journals ‘Women’s Work’ in Indonesia’s Social Media-based Online Store Business: Social Reproduction and the Feminization of Work

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-46
Author(s):  
Fathimah Fildzah Izzati
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Online Store ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Working Space ◽  
The Social ◽  
Online Business ◽  
Online Stores ◽  
New Forms Of Work

This paper seeks to analyze ‘women’s work’ in Indonesia’s online shop businesses by looking at the forms of work that emerge in those businesses. This paper employs qualitative research methods by using transcribed in-depth interviews with 20 informants from six cities in Indonesia. By looking at flexibility as the defining characteristic of exploitation under platform capitalism, home as the central working space in the social media-based online store, and the ongoing process of feminization of work in the online business sector, this study advances two claims. First, the intersection between platform capitalism and logistics revolution in the online shop business has created new forms of work. Second, the social media-based online store, which is mostly operated by women, shows that flexibility and feminization of work under platform capitalism have direct impacts on the lives of the female business operators and their work. A closer look at the emergence of online stores also reveals how social reproduction work shapes ‘women’s work’ in the online business

Women's Work in Agriculture: Divergent Trends in England and America, 1800 to 1930

1992 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 248-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally McMurry
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Major Influence ◽  
Agricultural Work ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Sexual Division Of Labor ◽  
The Social ◽  
Economic Background ◽  
History Of ◽  
Anglo American

English cheeses—Cheddar, Gloucester single or double, Cheshire, Stilton, and others—are familiar throughout the Anglo-American world, whether consumed after dinner in English homes or as key ingredients of American tex-mex or vegetarian cuisine. These famous cheeses originated long ago but in most cases reached a zenith in quantity and in reputation during the last century. Little is known about the history of English cheese dairying, despite its fame and its importance to agriculture past and present. Its economic background has received only slight attention, and its social history is almost entirely unexplored; yet clearly the social structure of English cheese dairying has historically exerted a major influence on the industry, because it traditionally depended upon a distinctive sexual division of labor. The history of women's work in English cheese dairying has implications for a broader historiographical question: When and why did women gradually disappear from many kinds of agricultural work in Western societies?

Emissaries, allies, accomplices and enemies: married women's work in eighteenth-century urban Sweden

Urban History ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 394-414 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARIA ÅGREN
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Historical Records ◽  
Paid Work ◽  
Court Records ◽  
Women’S Work

ABSTRACTBased on so-called Excise court records, this article argues that in eighteenth-century urban Sweden much of middling women's work took place in the interstices between households, as ‘help’ given to other women, often across social divides. These forms of work are often difficult to track in the historical records and, consequently, they have remained unnoticed, creating the erroneous picture that women did not contribute to their households through paid work. The lack of attention to these kinds of work has also overemphasized the closed character of early modern households which were, in fact, both flexible and permeable units.

Women's Work: Employment Opportunities and Economic Roles, 1918–1939

1975 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neal A. Ferguson
Keyword(s):  
Women's Work ◽  
Professional Women ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Economic Position ◽  
Economic Roles ◽  
Employment Of Women ◽  
Economic Expectations ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Individual

Although there is an ever increasing amount of scholarship describing the individual and collective experiences of British women during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, there has been, as yet, little written on the period after 1914. It is not my purpose here to fill that void. Rather it is the aim of this essay to sketch in the most striking features of British women's economic position during the inter-war years. Two interrelated aspects will be stressed: the actual employment of women during the period and the extent of changes in women's traditional economic roles. This essay proceeds on the assumption that pre-war feminism and the increased employment of women during the war heightened women's economic expectations. In post-war Britain, new vistas seemed to be opening as indicated by a flood of legal changes affecting women and as discussed in the analyses of contemporary social commentators. The reality, however, was not altogether encouraging. Employment gains made during the war by skilled and unskilled women in industry evaporated within a few years after 1918. The position of professional women showed some improvement but did not achieve the levels of their earlier hopes. The economic dislocations of the twenties and thirties were in part responsible for the slowness of change, but just as importantly, the accepted economic roles of women underwent no fundamental alterations.

scholarly journals Exploring Women's Work Decision in Malaysia

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Peck Leong Tan ◽  
Ruzita Baah ◽  
Geetha Subramaniam ◽  
Hadijah Iberahim
Keyword(s):  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Labour Force Participation ◽  
Educational Background ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Social Differences ◽  
Female Labour ◽  
Tertiary Institutions ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Malaysian Women

Over the years, the educational level of Malaysian women has increased tremendously with more women than men in the tertiary institutions. Nevertheless, investment in female human capital has not been translated into more women in the workforce. Therefore this study aims to explore the work decision of Malaysian women. Results from the survey of 553 women reveal that nearly all women expressed that they are willing to work after completing their tertiary education but they feel that support and influence from families are the most important deciding factors in influencing women’s decision to work. Furthermore, economic and social differences also play vital roles in women’s work decision. Women from poorer families and with lower educational background tend to focus on their financial needs as priority in their work decision. On the other hand, women with higher educational background and who come from richer families tend to choose jobs that will allow them to achieve their goals and also bring great self satisfaction. Therefore, various strategies targeting different women need to be done to increase the labour force participation of Malaysian women. Keywords: Work Decision, Women Work, Female Labour Force Participation

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