Women and women's work at Mt. Wilson Observatory before World War II

1994 ◽  
pp. 125-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Lankford
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
World War ◽  
Women’S Work

Redefining “Women’s Work”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Milkman
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Division Of Labor ◽  
Automobile Industry ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Equal Pay ◽  
Auto Workers ◽  
Sexual Division ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Job Segregation ◽  
Sexual Division Of Labor

This chapter examines the sexual division of labor in the automobile industry during World War II to find out whether job segregation by gender had been dismantled during the war. It begins with a discussion of “women's work” in the auto industry in the prewar period and goes on to explore how the idiom of sex-typing of occupations was implemented and readjusted in the face of a dramatic change in the economic constraints on the sexual division of labor, along with the ensuing political struggles over the redefinition of the boundaries between “women's work” and “men's work.” It then considers the ambiguity and labor–management conflict over “women's work,” the various exclusionary tactics employed by male auto workers against women, and the disputes over the question of equal pay in the industry during the war. It also discusses the process through which war factories reproduced new patterns of job segregation by sex in the industry, instead of eliminating it.

Birth intervals and women's economic activity

1985 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Máire Ní Bhrolcháin
Keyword(s):  
Survey Data ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Birth Spacing ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Birth Intervals ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Second World

SummarySome hypotheses regarding birth spacing and women's work are outlined. Using British census and survey data it is shown that average second and third birth intervals were shorter in marriages taking place in the 10 years following the Second World War as compared with marriages in the period 1900–29; the intervals increased again, measured on a period basis, in the 1970s. Birth intervals for women married during the 10 years after the war were shorter among those economically active at the 1971 census than among the inactive. Some problems of method are discussed.

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