United by Gender or Divided by Class? Women's Work Orientations and Labour Market Behaviour

2008 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 394-412 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura James
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Market Behaviour

scholarly journals Are parental leaves considered as work interruptions by survey respondents? A methodological note

2012 ◽  
Vol 39 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chaowen Chan ◽  
Dana Hamplová ◽  
Céline Le Bourdais
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Parental Leave ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Work Interruptions ◽  
Do So

Parental leaves and family-related work interruptions are linked to a variety of issues, such as children’s well-being or women’s work trajectories. Yet, the measurement of periods of absence from the labour market might be imprecise, especially in retrospective surveys. To evaluate the quality of the collected information, we examine whether women who reported taking a parental leave longer than six months also mentioned a corresponding work interruption, using the 2008 Living in Canada Survey (LCS) – Pilot. Our analysis shows that nearly half of women failed to do so. We investigate the sources of the discrepancy and suggest possible avenues of change for future surveys.

scholarly journals A Historical View of Studies of Women’s Work

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen Balka ◽  
Ina Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Observational Studies ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Main Motivation ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Historical View ◽  
The 1960S

AbstractThis paper places observational studies of women’s work in historical perspective. We present some of the very early studies (carried out in the period from 1900 to 1930), as well as several examples of fieldwork-based studies of women’s work, undertaken from different perspectives and in varied locations between the 1960s and the mid 1990s. We outline and discuss several areas of thought which have influenced studies of women’s work - the automation debate; the focus on the skills women need in their work; labour market segregation; women’s health; and technology and the redesign of work – and the research methods they used. Our main motivation in this paper is threefold: to demonstrate how fieldwork based studies which have focussed on women’s work have attempted to locate women’s work in a larger context that addresses its visibility and value; to provide a thematic historiography of studies of women’s work, thereby also demonstrating the value of an historical perspective, and a means through which to link it to contemporary themes; and to increase awareness of varied methodological perspectives on how to study work.

The paradoxical processes of feminization in the professions: the case of established, aspiring and semi-professions

2008 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 281-299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon Bolton ◽  
Daniel Muzio
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Professional Work ◽  
Professional Groups ◽  
The Past ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Recurrent Theme

The past three decades have been characterized by dramatic labour market developments including the mass entry of women to exclusively male domains. Professional work is particularly indicative of this trend where growth in female membership has fuelled optimistic predictions of shattered glass ceilings and gender equality. This article seeks to challenge these predictions and to explore the associated assumptions linked with the feminization of work in the UK. It does so by focusing on three professional groups: law, teaching and management which, despite some substantial differences, present a common and recurrent theme in the gendered processes of professional projects that marginalize, downgrade and exploit women and women's work. It is argued that the fluidity of such processes lead to a series of paradoxes as the professions are increasingly dependent on the contribution of their female members and yet numerical feminization, without truly including women, serves to undermine and even reverse professional projects.

scholarly journals Segmentation in the Pre-Industrial Labour Market: Women's Work in the Dutch Textile Industry, 1581–1810

2006 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Textile Industry ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Single Women ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Market Theory ◽  
Job Status ◽  
Labour Relations ◽  
Gender Conflict ◽  
Women’S Work

This article analyses women's work in the Dutch textile industry in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries within the framework of dual (or segmented) labour market theory. This theoretical framework is usually applied to the modern labour market, but it is also valuable for historical research. It clarifies, for example, how segmentation in the labour market influenced men's and women's work in the textile industry. Applying this analysis, we find that, even in periods without explicit gender conflict, patriarchal and capitalist forces utilized the gender segmentation of the labour market to redefine job status and labour relations in periods of economic change. Although this could harm the economic position of all women and migrants, it appears that single women were affected most by these mechanisms.

A NEW GENDER(ED) ORDER? RESEARCHING AND RETHINKING WOMEN’S WORK

Sociology ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 869-873 ◽  
Author(s):  
HARRIET BRADLEY
Keyword(s):  
Women's Work ◽  
Women’S Work
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