Women’s Work and Working Conditions

A session at the 2005 Delhi Congress on Women, Work and Health was entitled “Social movements and research on women, work and health: How can researchers and community members work together on current problems?” and described researcher-worker collaboration to gain recognition for the constraints and requirements of women's jobs. Suffering in the workplace may appear to come primarily from such visible aggressors as toxins and heavy weights, but its ultimate cause is the powerlessness, isolation, and denigration that sap workers’ ability to fight back. Participatory research projects described here have promoted solidarity and encouraged the transformation of working conditions.

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Coping with economic uncertainty: women's work and the protoindustrial family in eighteenth-century Lyon

Continuity and Change ◽

10.1017/s0268416020000041 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 35 (1) ◽

pp. 33-52

Author(s):

Anne Montenach

Keyword(s):

Eighteenth Century ◽

Working Conditions ◽

Adaptive Strategies ◽

Women's Work ◽

Small Scale ◽

Economic Uncertainty ◽

Silk Industry ◽

Women’S Work ◽

Real Issue ◽

Micro Level

AbstractThe aim of this article is to analyse how female working conditions and remunerations were affected by the structural and economic crises that impacted Lyon's silk industry in the second half of the eighteenth century. It concentrates, at a micro level, on different circumstances in which sources allow us to see women and their families coping with economic uncertainty: small-scale wage conflicts with their employers, clandestine work and illicit activities. This essay studies how women's work was a real issue in power conflicts and a tool for household adaptive strategies during periods of crisis.

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The association between women's work, working conditions, and adverse pregnancy outcomes: A Review of the literature and directions for future research

Women s Health Issues ◽

10.1016/s1049-3867(05)80112-4 ◽

1991 ◽

Vol 1 (3) ◽

pp. 113-119 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Louis Keith ◽

Barbara Luke

Keyword(s):

Working Conditions ◽

Pregnancy Outcomes ◽

Women's Work ◽

Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes ◽

Future Research ◽

Review Of The Literature ◽

Women’S Work ◽

Adverse Pregnancy

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Book Review: Economic and Social Security and Substandard Working Conditions: Women's Work, Mens Work: Sex Segregation on the Job

ILR Review ◽

10.1177/001979398704000319 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 40 (3) ◽

pp. 450-451

Author(s):

Phillip B. Levine

Keyword(s):

Social Security ◽

Working Conditions ◽

Women's Work ◽

Sex Segregation ◽

Women’S Work

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‘Women’s work penalty’ in access to flexible working arrangements across Europe

European Journal of Industrial Relations ◽

10.1177/0959680117752829 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 25 (1) ◽

pp. 23-40 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Heejung Chung

Keyword(s):

Gender Differences ◽

Working Conditions ◽

Women's Work ◽

European Countries ◽

Schedule Control ◽

Men And Women ◽

Empirical Results ◽

Women’S Work ◽

Flexible Working ◽

Low Pay

Many assume that women and workers in female-dominated workplaces will have better access to flexible working arrangements. Some use this as justification for the low wages found in these workplaces. Yet, empirical results are mixed. I explore this question by examining workers’ access to schedule control across 27 European countries, and find no discernible gender differences in access to schedule control when individual and company-level characteristics are taken into account. However, working in female-dominated jobs and/or sectors significantly reduces access to schedule control for both men and women. This ‘women’s work penalty’ in female-dominated sectors varies across Europe but nowhere was the access better compared to sectors where both genders are equally represented. This raises concerns regarding the lack of favourable working conditions, in addition to low pay found in female-dominated workplaces.

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