Women's employment and decision-making power in the family: A study of women workers in the handloom industries of Panipat district, Haryana

Social Change ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Santosh Sharma ◽  
Nalini Ogale
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Women Workers ◽  
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.

Empowered or Entangled: Agency and Choice in Women’s Employment in India

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 98-116
Author(s):  
Neetha N.
Keyword(s):  
Women Workers ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Women's Employment ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Women’S Employment ◽  
Multiple Dimensions ◽  
Division Of Housework ◽  
History Of ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Self Help Groups

In India, formation of NGO-aided self-help groups (SHGs) for production was seen as an important step to lift women out of economic marginalisation and, thus, for women’s empowerment. With changes in economic policies, challenges of wage employment for women were also assumed to have been addressed. In this context, this article, drawing from the history of empowerment discourse and its obsession with the economic aspect, examines women’s employment and its multiple dimensions The analysis provides insights into the gender-based inequalities in the labour market which are evident in the concentration of women workers in precariat, feminised jobs either under the control of the family or without any recognition or legal protection. The prevalence of regressive gendered ideologies in employment and in the division of housework raises critical questions about the understanding of the two critical pillars of empowerment, namely, choice and agency.

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.

Crisis at Work: Gender, Class, and the Dehumanization of Jobs

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-136
Author(s):  
Harriet Bradley
Keyword(s):  
Women Workers ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Gender Segregation ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Women's Employment ◽  
Women’S Employment ◽  
The Uk

Drawing on Huw Beynon’s paper in HSIR 40 (2019), this article surveys the position of women in the UK labour market over the last fifty years. It suggests that many of the developments Beynon describes are relevant to women’s employment, but with the added twist that women’s position in the labour market and society is structured by their responsibility within the total social organization of labour for reproductive labour. Despite increased women’s employment, gender segregation, both horizontal and vertical, is obstinately persistent, especially in working-class occupations. Two of these occupations, care work and retail, are used to illustrate how increasing precarity of jobs combined with technologies of control have brought about a dehumanization of work. It is concluded that the restructuring of global capitalism on neoliberal principles has negatively affected opportunities for women workers.

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.

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