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

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-40 ◽  
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.

Understanding Women's Work: Steps toward Transformation—an Introduction

2007 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana María Seifert ◽  
Karen Messing
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Participatory Research ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Ultimate Cause ◽  
To Come ◽  
Work And Health

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.

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

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.

Textile Production and Gender in the Sokoto Caliphate

1993 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 361-401 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colleen Kriger
Keyword(s):  
Women Workers ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Textile Production ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Textile Manufacturing ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
The North ◽  
Sokoto Caliphate ◽  
Textile Products

Men and women, trained in the occupations of spinner, weaver, dyer, tailor and embroiderer, manufactured the renowned textile products of the Sokoto Caliphate, a nineteenth-century state in the central Sudan region of West Africa. The numerical distributions of men and women within these occupations were uneven, but not in accordance with the pattern described most frequently in the literature. Offered here is another, more detailed view of textile production. Women were not simply spinners but were also weavers and dyers. Uneven, too, were the geographical distributions of men and women workers. Men skilled in textile manufacturing were widely disseminated throughout the caliphate, as were women spinners; women skilled at weaving and dyeing, however, were concentrated mainly in the southern emirates of Nupe and Ilorin. Similarly, male entrepreneurs organized large-scale textile manufacturing enterprises in the north-central portion of the caliphate while enterprises created by women were located to the south.New sources, the textile products of the caliphate, along with other contemporary evidence, reveal that women's work was more varied, more prominent, more highly skilled and more organized than previously thought. Comparative analyses along gender lines show that men's work and women's work were similar in the degree of training required and the levels of skill achieved. Labor, especially skilled labor, was critical to textile production if the caliphate was to maintain its external markets. But there were substantial differences in the degree to which men and women could mobilize and organize labor. A variety of social and political factors in caliphate society combined to assist men and hinder women in the organization and management of textile manufacturing.

The Determinants of the Division of Labor between Men and Women in Paid Employment in the Global North and South

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Cohn
Keyword(s):  
Family Firms ◽  
Global South ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Female Employment ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Labor Costs ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Cheap Labor ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Global North

This essay attempts to contribute to the study of gender and development by developing a systematic theory of the division of work between men and women in the global North and the global South. There is an extensive literature on women's work and development; this literature consists of rich case studies that do not attempt to identify general principles that apply to women's work as a whole. In formal employment settings, women are most likely to be excluded from settings where employers are buffered from labor costs and do not have to utilize cheap labor. In the global North, this means settings that are capital-intensive, where raw material and machinery costs reduce the importance of wage costs in total budgets. In the global South, petroleum lowers the importance of wage costs, promoting male employment, while export orientation increases the importance of cheap labor, promoting female employment. Family firms and female self-employment have their own dynamics, which are discussed.

scholarly journals Do working conditions contribute differently to gender gaps in self-rated health within different occupational classes? Evidence from the Swedish Level of Living Survey

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. e0253119
Author(s):  
Sara Kjellsson
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Health Inequality ◽  
Occupational Class ◽  
Probability Models ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Linear Probability ◽  
Level Of Living ◽  
Socioeconomic Inequality In Health

Socioeconomic inequality in health among women is often referred to as smaller than health inequality among men. However, we know less about differences in health between men and women within the same socioeconomic groups. In this article the lack of attention to potential socioeconomic variation in gender health inequality is argued as unfortunate, as it can obscure how mechanisms, such as e.g. working conditions, affect gendered health within specific groups. Drawing on the nationally representative Swedish Level of Living survey (LNU), class/gender interactions as well as class-separate linear probability models are estimated to explore relationships between working conditions and health among men and women with the same occupational class positions. Results show that, although class is not a large explanatory factor for general gender differences in health, there are varying within-class differences between men and women in working conditions, that can contribute to the understanding of within-class gender differences in health. This highlights that, when targeting causes of gender health inequality, it is important to consider not only what class means for women as well as for men, but also what gender means within specific classes.

Does Having a Woman Manager Affect Managerial Women's Work and Career Experiences?

1998 ◽  
Vol 83 (3) ◽  
pp. 968-970
Author(s):  
Ronald J. Burke ◽  
Louis A. Divinagracia ◽  
Ermias Mamo
Keyword(s):  
Financial Services ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Career Experiences ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Woman Manager ◽  
Women Supervisors

This study compared the work and career experiences of Filipino professional and managerial women with men and women supervisors. Data were collected from 200 women working in banking and financial services and the fashion and cosmetics sectors. Sex of supervisor was not associated with Filipino women's work and career experiences.

Women’s Work and Working Conditions

2011 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Glauber
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Women’S Work
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