scholarly journals Dependency and Autonomy: Women's Employment and the Family in Calcutta

1992 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-135
Author(s):  
Swasti Mitter
Keyword(s):  
Women's Employment ◽  
Women’S Employment ◽  
The Family

Sexual Division in Parenting: A Normative Context That Hinders Co-Responsibility

2021 ◽  
pp. 0192513X2110380
Author(s):  
José María García-de-Diego ◽  
Livia García-Faroldi
Keyword(s):  
Child Rearing ◽  
Women's Employment ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Women’S Employment ◽  
Sexual Division ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
The Family ◽  
Social Images ◽  
Employment Rates ◽  
Using Data

Recent decades have seen an increase in women’s employment rates and an expansion of egalitarian values. Previous studies document the so-called “motherhood penalty,” which makes women’s employment more difficult. Demands for greater shared child-rearing between parents are hindered by a normative climate that supports differentiated gender roles in the family. Using data from the Center for Sociological Research [Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas] (2018), this study shows that the Spanish population perceives that differentiated social images of motherhood and fatherhood still persist. The “sexual division in parenting” index is proposed and the profile of the individuals who most perceive this sexual division is analyzed. The results show that women and younger people are the most aware of this social normativity that unequally distributes child care, making co-responsibility difficult. The political implications of these results are discussed.

scholarly journals Working Rural Women - Acknowledgement on Various Roles

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 77
Author(s):  
Sheeja Krishnakumar
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Discriminant Analysis ◽  
Rural Women ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Rural Society ◽  
Women's Employment ◽  
Women’S Employment ◽  
The Family ◽  
Household Activities ◽  
Taking Care

There are transformations happening in the social and economic front in the rural areas of India. Among the many changes, perception on women’s employment in information technology-enabled service companies among the rural society is emphasised in this study. This paper focuses on the views among the rural public towards changing woman’s roles and responsibilities in the family beyond the roles as a mother or wife due to an increase in women’s employment in information technology-enabled services companies. The article tries to examine whether there is a change in the perception between males and females in the rural area towards women’s employment. Besides, the study tries to see whether the working woman’s contribution to family wellbeing is influenced by childcare, more earning by husband, household duties and good relationship with children. Eight hundred and eleven samples were collected from four different districts of two states in India. The statistical tools used for the study are T test, Anova, multiple regression and discriminant analysis. The demographic variables considered for this study includes age, gender and education. The regression analysis revealed that wellbeing of the family is related to woman’s involvement in taking care of children, involving in household activities and maintaining good relations with children. The discriminant analysis reveals that there is no difference between the genders regarding her employment. The mind set of women taking care of children and household activities still remain priority but their perception that husband’s earning should be more than wife and spending extra time outside for official purpose is not given significance. There is a positive change in the attitude of the rural society towards woman’s employment. Her involvement in childcare and household activities is for the wellbeing of the family and for the future generation. This positive outlook encourages more women to the workforce in rural areas.

Work–Family Reconciliation Policy in France

Making Waves ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 73-84
Author(s):  
Jan Windebank
Keyword(s):  
Labour Force ◽  
Women's Employment ◽  
Women’S Employment ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
Domestic Labour ◽  
Work Family ◽  
Women's Role ◽  
Second Wave ◽  
Reconciliation Policies

This chapter examines the history of French work-family reconciliation policies from the 1970s until the present day. It considers the extent to which the development of these policies does and does not link to second wave feminist ideas about women’s domestic labour that emerged in the 1970s. It argues that while in Scandinavian countries, for example, debates and policies addressing work-family reconciliation debates considered men’s roles in the home as well as women’s employment, in France men’s roles were not addressed. This has meant that while French women today are well integrated into the labour force, and have used a variety of resources available to them to free themselves from domestic and caring responsibilities, men’s role in the family has changed very little in comparison with women’s role in the workforce.

scholarly journals The Impact of Family Care for the Elderly on Women’s Employment from the Perspective of Bargaining Power

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (11) ◽  
pp. 5905
Author(s):  
Yujuan Huang ◽  
Haoying Xu ◽  
Hengyu Liu ◽  
Wenguang Yu ◽  
Xinliang Yu
Keyword(s):  
Bargaining Power ◽  
Elderly Care ◽  
Family Care ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Ordinary Least Squares ◽  
Women's Employment ◽  
Nutrition Survey ◽  
Women’S Employment ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Impact

Due to the wishes of the elderly and the traditional family culture in China, family care is the main way of providing for the aged, and women’s care is the main way. This is not conducive to the protection of women’s employment rights and the realization of self-worth under the background of increasing women’s autonomy. Based on the latest data of the China Health and Nutrition Survey Database (CHNS), this paper uses ordinary least squares (OLS) and the instrumental variable method of control endogeneity to analyze the influence of family care activities on the labor participation rate of married women. The innovation of this paper is to introduce family bargaining power into this kind of model for the first time, and further analyze the heterogeneity from the perspective of bargaining power differences. The empirical results show that the family elderly care activities have an obstacle effect on married women’s participation in employment, and the family members with strong bargaining power will significantly hinder employment, so this paper puts forward policy recommendations in line with the actual situation, hoping to provide theoretical support for the improvement of the social security system for the elderly.

Dependence and Autonomy: Women's Employment and the Family in Calcutta.

Man ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 579
Author(s):  
Sarah C. White ◽  
Hilary Standing
Keyword(s):  
Women's Employment ◽  
Women’S Employment ◽  
The Family
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