Southwest China

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurel Bossen ◽  
Hill Gates
Keyword(s):  
Survey Data ◽  
Southwest China ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Cotton Cloth ◽  
Cotton Yarn ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
Locally Grown ◽  
The Relationship

China’s Southwest, lacking locally grown cotton, had imported raw cotton, cotton yarn, and cotton cloth. Among our five village sites in mountainous Yunnan and Guizhou, differences in the distance from industrial centers and the railway allowed some villages to specialize in hand woven textiles and other commercial crafts while other villages relied less on women’s handcraft labor. With milder winters, the work of cultivating double-cropped rice and opium left less time for handwork, and generated income used to buy textiles. The variations in Han women’s work and footbinding provide fertile ground for testing the relationship between girls’ labor and footbinding. The examination of Southwest China concludes with comparison to Gates’ earlier survey data on footbinding among nearly 5,000 Sichuan women.

WOMEN'S WORK AND FERTILITY IN A SUB-SAHARAN URBAN SETTING: A SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT APPROACH

2000 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
VICTOR AGADJANIAN
Keyword(s):  
Social Environment ◽  
Contraceptive Use ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Work Environments ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
Multivariate Tests ◽  
Modern Contraception ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
The Relationship

Data from three separate studies conducted in Maputo, Mozambique, in 1993 are used to analyse the relationship between the type of social environment in which women work and their fertility and contraceptive use. The analysis finds that women who work in more collectivized environments have fewer children and are more likely to use modern contraception than women who work in more individualized milieus and those who do not work outside the home. Most of these differences persist in multivariate tests. It is argued that collectivized work environments are most conducive to diffusion and legitimation of reproductive innovations. In contrast, individualized environments tend to isolate women and therefore may retard their acceptance of innovative fertility-related behaviour.

scholarly journals Does work influence women’s autonomy or does autonomy deliberate women to work?

2018 ◽  
Vol 74 ◽  
pp. 10013
Author(s):  
Ruskin Ristiana ◽  
Dwini Handayani
Keyword(s):  
Multinomial Logistic Regression ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Work Status ◽  
Women’S Autonomy ◽  
Multinomial Logistic Regression Analysis ◽  
Women's Autonomy ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Causal Direction ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Relationship

Work, especially paid work, has been assumed to enhance women’s autonomy, particularly their household autonomy. However, this assumption does not work in one causal direction. The causality relationship works both ways, that women work due to their high level of autonomy, but also because their employment status will increase their autonomy. The aim of this study is to understand the relationship between women’s work status and their household autonomy. This study used data from the Indonesian Demography and Health Survey 2012, together with a multinomial logistic regression analysis on married women’s work status and autonomy as dependent and independent variables, respectively. It was found that work status influences married women’s household autonomy and vice versa. However, the direction and strength of the influence depend on the type of work status and autonomy.

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.

Gender, poverty and the development of the right to social security

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 460-477 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beth Goldblatt
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
International Law ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Limited Attention ◽  
Gender Perspective ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Substantive Equality ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThe international right to social security has been given limited attention as a vehicle for addressing women's poverty. This paper highlights some of the issues shaping women's poverty globally that require a more responsive right to social security. It discusses the nature and purpose of social security and examines the international law relating to this right, arguing that recent interpretations lack an adequate framework for ensuring women's interests are fully accommodated. The paper challenges the relationship between the right to social security and traditional conceptions of work that exclude women's labour. It also argues that the right must have application at the transnational level if it is to address the changing nature of women's work. Drawing on ideas of substantive equality, it proposes an approach to the development of the right from a gender perspective including a set of principles to be followed in applying the right.

scholarly journals The relationship between women’s work histories and incomes in later life in the UK, US and West Germany

2011 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Sefton ◽  
Maria Evandrou ◽  
Jane Falkingham ◽  
Athina Vlachantoni
Keyword(s):  
Later Life ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Work Histories ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals 'Dying to be Noticed' Gender: Work and Death Registration in New Zealand

1970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate McKegg
Keyword(s):  
Women's Work ◽  
Statistical Information ◽  
Death Registration ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Construction Of Identity ◽  
Economic Climate ◽  
Data Collections ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Official Data

Statistical information is often used for the basis of resource allocation in social policy. This paper discusses the historical and present day categorisation of women's work as it applies to the census and death registration. From a feminist/policy perspective, I will explore the relationship between 'official' representation and its power for the construction of particular social/political/economic identities. I will argue that the historical legacy of categorisation and construction of identity which persists in 'official' data collections continues to shape and influence policy parameters and decisions about the 'worth' of women's work, particularly unpaid work. Within the context of the current political and economic climate, the implications of continuing to inadequately represent the unpaid contributions of women will also be examined.

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