Don’t tell them I can type: negotiating women’s work in production in the post-war ABC

2016 ◽  
Vol 161 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kylie Andrews
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Public Broadcasting ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
The Social ◽  
Collective Biography ◽  
Post War

This article examines the pervasive mechanisms of discrimination in Australian public broadcasting in the 1950s and 1960s and considers how concepts of femininity were engaged to maintain the sexual division of labour within one of Australia’s leading cultural institutions, the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC). Constructing a collective biography of female producers who challenged gendered work practices, it discusses the obstacles that confronted women in production and considers the social, economic and industrial factors that allowed certain women to become producers when many failed to escape the ABC’s typing pool. Referring to case studies derived from biographical memory sources and industrial documentation, this article historicises the careers of radio and television producers and contextualises their histories against data found in the 1977 Women in the ABC report, to re-imagine the nature of women’s work in Australian broadcasting in the post-war era.

scholarly journals How Men Valued Women's Work: Labour In and Outside the Home in Post-War Britain

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 454-468
Author(s):  
Laura King
Keyword(s):  
Women's Work ◽  
Married Women ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Paid Work ◽  
Female Labour ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Post War ◽  
Definition Of

AbstractThis article examines men's valuing of women's work in the post-1945 period. It considers men's perspectives on female labour in and outside the home in the context of women's wartime work, the increase in married women working and the greater involvement of men in family life. I argue that men saw their wives’ and partners’ work as of lesser value than their own, in various ways, even if the money women's paid work brought in could significantly improve living standards. This was true even in the most caring, loving relationships. The article employs a broad definition of value, considering the social and cultural value of work alongside its economic outcomes. It places subjective accounts from interviews within a wider cultural and political context and contributes a new perspective to post-war British historiography by focusing on both paid labour and domestic work, and the negotiation of value between men and women.

scholarly journals Women’s Work in the Field of Care and Rehabilitation in Jordan

1970 ◽  
pp. 38-43
Author(s):  
South-North Center for Dialogue Ammam
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Fertility Rates ◽  
Young Girls ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family

In the last few decades, Arab society has witnessed remarkable changes at the social, economic, and demographic levels. These changes have left their mark on the size of the family, its function, role, and interrelations among its members. As a result, fertility rates among women have dropped, late marriages have become common, and the percentage of women and young girls seeking education has sharply increased. In addition, more women have joined the labor market.

scholarly journals ‘Women’s Work’ in Indonesia’s Social Media-based Online Store Business: Social Reproduction and the Feminization of Work

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-46
Author(s):  
Fathimah Fildzah Izzati
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Online Store ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Working Space ◽  
The Social ◽  
Online Business ◽  
Online Stores ◽  
New Forms Of Work

This paper seeks to analyze ‘women’s work’ in Indonesia’s online shop businesses by looking at the forms of work that emerge in those businesses. This paper employs qualitative research methods by using transcribed in-depth interviews with 20 informants from six cities in Indonesia. By looking at flexibility as the defining characteristic of exploitation under platform capitalism, home as the central working space in the social media-based online store, and the ongoing process of feminization of work in the online business sector, this study advances two claims. First, the intersection between platform capitalism and logistics revolution in the online shop business has created new forms of work. Second, the social media-based online store, which is mostly operated by women, shows that flexibility and feminization of work under platform capitalism have direct impacts on the lives of the female business operators and their work. A closer look at the emergence of online stores also reveals how social reproduction work shapes ‘women’s work’ in the online business

Women's Work in Agriculture: Divergent Trends in England and America, 1800 to 1930

1992 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 248-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally McMurry
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Major Influence ◽  
Agricultural Work ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Sexual Division Of Labor ◽  
The Social ◽  
Economic Background ◽  
History Of ◽  
Anglo American

English cheeses—Cheddar, Gloucester single or double, Cheshire, Stilton, and others—are familiar throughout the Anglo-American world, whether consumed after dinner in English homes or as key ingredients of American tex-mex or vegetarian cuisine. These famous cheeses originated long ago but in most cases reached a zenith in quantity and in reputation during the last century. Little is known about the history of English cheese dairying, despite its fame and its importance to agriculture past and present. Its economic background has received only slight attention, and its social history is almost entirely unexplored; yet clearly the social structure of English cheese dairying has historically exerted a major influence on the industry, because it traditionally depended upon a distinctive sexual division of labor. The history of women's work in English cheese dairying has implications for a broader historiographical question: When and why did women gradually disappear from many kinds of agricultural work in Western societies?

Insane Acquaintances

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Moore
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Cultural Impact ◽  
Art And Design ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Festival Of Britain ◽  
Post War

Insane Acquaintances charts the varied encounters between artistic modernism and the British public in the years between ‘Manet and the Post-Impressionists’ (1910) and the Festival of Britain (1951). Through a range of case studies which explore the work of the ‘mediators’ of modernism in Britain – those individuals, groups and organisations which facilitated the introduction of modernist art and design to public audiences during the first part of the twentieth century – Insane Acquaintances explores the social, political and cultural impact of visual modernism over the course of four decades. Focusing on the efforts to legitimise, explain and make authentic the abstract (and often continental) modernist aesthetics that shaped British artistic culture during the years 1910-1951, this study charts the changing taste of the nation, through chapters on Postimpressionist art and crafts, modernist art in schools, the home design and decoration, Surrealism and revolution and the post-War institutionalisation and funding of the arts.

scholarly journals Analyzing Transportation Sustainability in the Canary Islands Archipelago

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (7) ◽  
pp. 58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rui Alexandre Castanho ◽  
Arian Behradfar ◽  
Ana Vulevic ◽  
José Manuel Naranjo Gómez
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Canary Islands ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
La Palma ◽  
Regional Management ◽  
The Social ◽  
Relevant Case ◽  
Scarcity Of Resources ◽  
La Gomera

The scarcity of resources, the limited land, and the overstressing of tourism, as well as the estrangements of movement, make the insular territories relevant case studies in terms of their regional management and governance and, consequently, sustainable development. Thereby, Transportation and Infrastructures’ Sustainability in these territories is not an exception. In this regard, the present study, through exploratory tools, expects to analyze, using accessibility and connectivity indicators, the impacts over the social-economic sphere that the local Transportation and Infrastructures may deliver to the populations of the Canary Islands Archipelago. The study enables us to identify the islands of La Palma, El Hierro, Fuerteventura, and La Gomera as those with better accessibility patterns.

Women's Work: Employment Opportunities and Economic Roles, 1918–1939

1975 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neal A. Ferguson
Keyword(s):  
Women's Work ◽  
Professional Women ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Economic Position ◽  
Economic Roles ◽  
Employment Of Women ◽  
Economic Expectations ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Individual

Although there is an ever increasing amount of scholarship describing the individual and collective experiences of British women during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, there has been, as yet, little written on the period after 1914. It is not my purpose here to fill that void. Rather it is the aim of this essay to sketch in the most striking features of British women's economic position during the inter-war years. Two interrelated aspects will be stressed: the actual employment of women during the period and the extent of changes in women's traditional economic roles. This essay proceeds on the assumption that pre-war feminism and the increased employment of women during the war heightened women's economic expectations. In post-war Britain, new vistas seemed to be opening as indicated by a flood of legal changes affecting women and as discussed in the analyses of contemporary social commentators. The reality, however, was not altogether encouraging. Employment gains made during the war by skilled and unskilled women in industry evaporated within a few years after 1918. The position of professional women showed some improvement but did not achieve the levels of their earlier hopes. The economic dislocations of the twenties and thirties were in part responsible for the slowness of change, but just as importantly, the accepted economic roles of women underwent no fundamental alterations.

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