Women’s Labor and Class : Beginning of Alive Days and Standing Woman by Park Wansuh

How are the work trajectories of Chilean women? This qualitative study analyzes the female work trajectories through interviews and biograms in a sample of 50 Chilean women, professionals and non-professionals, between the ages of 24 and 88. The article proposes an original typology of female work trajectories and relates type of work trajectory with Piore’s theory of labor market segmentation. The paper discusses the challenges and weaknesses of the Chilean women’s labor outcome and presents recent data to extrapolate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on vulnerable work trajectories. It considers the type of State and possible actions to achieve greater welfare and social development regarding gender equality.

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Barrio Women and Popular Politics in Chávez's Venezuela

Latin American Politics and Society ◽

10.1111/j.1548-2456.2007.tb00384.x ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 49 (03) ◽

pp. 97-127 ◽

Cited By ~ 31

Author(s):

Sujatha Fernandes

Keyword(s):

Social Movements ◽

Gender Roles ◽

Women Activists ◽

Community Leaders ◽

Popular Politics ◽

Women's Labor ◽

Popular Participation ◽

Grassroots Politics ◽

Urban Social Movements ◽

Hugo Chavez

Abstract Since President Hugo Chávez came to power in Venezuela in 1998, ordinary women from the barrios, or shantytowns, of Caracas have become more engaged in grassroots politics; but most of the community leaders still are men. Chávez's programs are controlled by male-dominated bureaucracies, and many women activists still look to the president himself as the main source of direction. Nevertheless, this article argues, women's increasing local activism has created forms of popular participation that challenge gender roles, collectivize private tasks, and create alternatives to male-centric politics. Women's experiences of shared struggle from previous decades, along with their use of democratic methods of popular control, help prevent the state from appropriating women's labor. But these spaces coexist with more vertical, populist notions of politics characteristic of official sectors of Chavismo. Understanding such gendered dimensions of popular participation is crucial to analyzing urban social movements.

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Women’s Labor Force Participation in Urban China, 1990–2010

Chinese Sociological Review ◽

10.1080/21620555.2015.1036234 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 47 (4) ◽

pp. 314-342 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

Yuxiao Wu ◽

Dongyang Zhou

Keyword(s):

Labor Force ◽

Labor Force Participation ◽

Urban China ◽

Women's Labor ◽

Women's Labor Force Participation

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Women’s Labor in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka: The Trade-off with Technology

Gender Technology and Development ◽

10.1080/09718524.1999.11909916 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 85-102

Author(s):

Gowrie Ponniah ◽

Geraldine Reardon

Keyword(s):

Sri Lanka ◽

Women's Labor ◽

Trade Off

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From Economic Security to Equality: Frieda Miller, Esther Peterson, and the Revival of the Alternative View of Public Administration, 1945-1964

The American Review of Public Administration ◽

10.1177/0275074017740969 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 48 (8) ◽

pp. 795-807

Author(s):

John Thomas McGuire

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

Public Administration ◽

Economic Security ◽

Alternative View ◽

Women's Labor ◽

Equal Pay ◽

Secondary Sources ◽

The Status ◽

Equal Pay Act ◽

Women's Bureau

This article examines how Frieda Miller and Esther Peterson, two influential directors of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Women’s Bureau after World War II, revived and continued the alternative view of public administration through a combination of primary and secondary sources. Miller, who served as director from 1944 through 1953, reestablished a social justice–centered view of public administration through the creation of a special advisory committee and the institution of a new agenda that stressed equality over economic security. Peterson, who served from 1961 through 1964, quickly moved the Women’s Bureau into a political network with women’s labor leaders and the John F. Kennedy presidential administration, helping to create the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women (PCSW) and to enact a federal Equal Pay Act.

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