Employment Status and Gender Division of Labour at Home among Dual Earner Couples in South Korea

Nearly two hundred volumes of physiology and hygiene textbooks, together with governmental and other materials, are investigated in this chapter to illuminate the intricacies in drawing the moral landscape pertinent to sex education in early republican China. Frequent revisions of official directives testify to the fast changing political and intellectual arena of China. Shifted emphases between reproductive functions and puberty sexuality exemplify the professionals’ uncertainties in getting to the early teens. Pedagogical publication boomed and writers experimented on both textual and visual materials. Bio-medicine was flagged as entrance to learning one’s own body, but a healthier nation promoted in the New Life Movement eventually relied on the individual’s self-discipline not necessarily required of scientific erudition. Some may have found secretion system more useful than anatomical information to integrate physiology, psychology and pathology into the mechanism of sexual differences, so much so that a gender division of labour was proposed to fulfill both personal responsibilities and to echo contemporary political rhetoric. Not all endorsed such elaboration, however, and the zigzag between sexual differences and gender equality became a noteworthy parallel to the tug-of-war between sexuality and reproduction.

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GENDER DIVISION OF LABOUR AND POLYGAMY

ALQALAM ◽

10.32678/alqalam.v26i2.1557 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 26 (2) ◽

pp. 229

Author(s):

Siti Aisyah

Keyword(s):

Gender Inequality ◽

Division Of Labour ◽

Customary Law ◽

Marriage Law ◽

Head Of Household ◽

And Gender ◽

The One ◽

Clear Statement ◽

Gender Division Of Labour ◽

Do So

The Indonesian patriarchal culture and gender inequality is reflected in state policies, regulations and laws. As a pluralistic country comprising of different ethnic groups with specific cultures and traditions, Indonesia has four formal religions: Islam, Christianity, Hindu and Buddhism. Because of this, Indonesian law reflects cultural and religious diversity, including customary law or Adat law, the Marriage Law of 1974 as well as civil and criminal law. Two serious concerns of Marriage Law of 1974 are in relation to gender division of labour and polygamy which undermine Indonesian Muslim women. This paper discusses such an issue to allow women to get equaliry before the law and highlights its contribution to domestic violence.There are two contradictory stipulations with respect to the Marriage Law of 1974: equality in marriage and gender division of labour within marriage. On the one hand, Article 31 (1) and Article 3 3 clearly state that there is no difference between husband and wife with respect to their basic rights such as love; respect, or fidelity. On the other hand, both of these Articles are contradicted with other articles which differentiate between a husband's and wife's responsibilities. For example, Article 31 (3) and Article 34 stipulate a clear division between the roles of husbands and wives within marriage. This has become a reference point for Indonesian views in determining gender relations in marriage.Marriage Law of 1974 still which supports gender division of labour between wife and husband should be revised by providing a clear statement that these roles are conditional. This means that husbands can be domestic carers including taking care of children if they have no jobs, while wives can be finacial providers or the head of household if they are capable to do so. In this context, gender roles can be exchanged and are not strictly for a certain gender.

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AGRICULTURAL MODERNIZATION AND GENDER DIVISION OF LABOUR: The case of Heraklion, Greece

Sociologia Ruralis ◽

10.1111/j.1467-9523.1988.tb00343.x ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 28 (4) ◽

pp. 248-262 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

MARIA STRATIGAKI

Keyword(s):

Division Of Labour ◽

Agricultural Modernization ◽

And Gender ◽

Gender Division Of Labour

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The Pandemic of Productivity

Anthropology in Action ◽

10.3167/aia.2021.280109 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 28 (1) ◽

pp. 47-51

Author(s):

Suchismita Chattopadhyay

Keyword(s):

Division Of Labour ◽

Social Division ◽

Work From Home ◽

The Social ◽

And Gender ◽

Privileged Class ◽

A Site ◽

Productive Time ◽

At Home

Initially with the massive outbreak of COVID-19, physical distancing in the form of stay-at-home campaigns made the headlines. The most stringent lockdown period in India was envisaged by the privileged class as a productive time at home. I show that the home as a space of leisure and intimacy is also a site of caste and gender privilege that upholds the social division of labour. By looking at both the work of home and the work from home, I problematise the notion of productivity from home and argue for a renewed understanding of what constitutes work and what constitutes home as an intimate space.

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Enhancing Women's Mobility in a Forest Economy: Transport and Gender Relations in the Santal Parganas, Jharkhand

Indian Journal of Gender Studies ◽

10.1177/097152150100800208 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 271-290 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Nitya Rao

Keyword(s):

Gender Relations ◽

Time Factors ◽

Division Of Labour ◽

Environmental Context ◽

Tribal Population ◽

Roles And Responsibilities ◽

Basic Services ◽

And Gender ◽

The Village ◽

Gender Division Of Labour

This paper, based on a study of three villages in Dumka district, Jharkhand, attempts to under line some of the linkages between transport provisioning, livelihoods and changes in the socioeconomic and environmental context of the transport components of the roles and responsibilities of women and men. Transport needs are largely local in nature-to the fields, forests and mar kets. Distance and time factors seem to play an important role both in determining livelihood choices and the gender division of labour within the household. The state provisioning, however, has primarily related to the construction of roads and setting up of bus routes catering to the major markets rather than local needs. The paper advocates a combination of non-transport interventions for providing basic services in the village itself, along with innovative transport and organisational interventions to ease the transport burdens on the local tribal population, particularly women.

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Cross-border Migration and Gender Boundaries in Central Eastern Europe – Female Perspectives

MIGRATION LETTERS ◽

10.33182/ml.v17i4.700 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 17 (4) ◽

pp. 499-509

Author(s):

Ágnes Erőss ◽

Monika Mária Váradi ◽

Doris Wastl-Walter

Keyword(s):

Gender Roles ◽

Eastern Europe ◽

Labour Migration ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Livelihood Strategy ◽

Central Eastern Europe ◽

Cross Border ◽

Dual Earner ◽

And Gender ◽

Gender Boundaries

In post-Socialist countries, cross-border labour migration has become a common individual and family livelihood strategy. The paper is based on the analysis of semi-structured interviews conducted with two ethnic Hungarian women whose lives have been significantly reshaped by cross-border migration. Focusing on the interplay of gender and cross-border migration, our aim is to reveal how gender roles and boundaries are reinforced and repositioned by labour migration in the post-socialist context where both the socialist dual-earner model and conventional ideas of family and gender roles simultaneously prevail. We found that cross-border migration challenged these women to pursue diverse strategies to balance their roles of breadwinner, wife, and mother responsible for reproductive work. Nevertheless, the boundaries between female and male work or status were neither discursively nor in practice transgressed. Thus, the effect of cross-border migration on altering gender boundaries in post-socialist peripheries is limited.

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