The Contribution of the World Fertility Surveys to an Understanding of The Relationship Between Women's Work and Fertility

1991 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia B. Lloyd
Keyword(s):  
Women's Work ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship

WOMEN'S WORK AND FERTILITY IN A SUB-SAHARAN URBAN SETTING: A SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT APPROACH

2000 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
VICTOR AGADJANIAN
Keyword(s):  
Social Environment ◽  
Contraceptive Use ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Work Environments ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
Multivariate Tests ◽  
Modern Contraception ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
The Relationship

Data from three separate studies conducted in Maputo, Mozambique, in 1993 are used to analyse the relationship between the type of social environment in which women work and their fertility and contraceptive use. The analysis finds that women who work in more collectivized environments have fewer children and are more likely to use modern contraception than women who work in more individualized milieus and those who do not work outside the home. Most of these differences persist in multivariate tests. It is argued that collectivized work environments are most conducive to diffusion and legitimation of reproductive innovations. In contrast, individualized environments tend to isolate women and therefore may retard their acceptance of innovative fertility-related behaviour.

Southwest China

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurel Bossen ◽  
Hill Gates
Keyword(s):  
Survey Data ◽  
Southwest China ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Cotton Cloth ◽  
Cotton Yarn ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
Locally Grown ◽  
The Relationship

China’s Southwest, lacking locally grown cotton, had imported raw cotton, cotton yarn, and cotton cloth. Among our five village sites in mountainous Yunnan and Guizhou, differences in the distance from industrial centers and the railway allowed some villages to specialize in hand woven textiles and other commercial crafts while other villages relied less on women’s handcraft labor. With milder winters, the work of cultivating double-cropped rice and opium left less time for handwork, and generated income used to buy textiles. The variations in Han women’s work and footbinding provide fertile ground for testing the relationship between girls’ labor and footbinding. The examination of Southwest China concludes with comparison to Gates’ earlier survey data on footbinding among nearly 5,000 Sichuan women.

Pink Collar Workers: Inside the World of Women's Work.

ILR Review ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 274
Author(s):  
Alice H. Cook ◽  
Louise Kapp Howe
Keyword(s):  
Women's Work ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
The World ◽  
Pink Collar

scholarly journals Does work influence women’s autonomy or does autonomy deliberate women to work?

2018 ◽  
Vol 74 ◽  
pp. 10013
Author(s):  
Ruskin Ristiana ◽  
Dwini Handayani
Keyword(s):  
Multinomial Logistic Regression ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Work Status ◽  
Women’S Autonomy ◽  
Multinomial Logistic Regression Analysis ◽  
Women's Autonomy ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Causal Direction ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Relationship

Work, especially paid work, has been assumed to enhance women’s autonomy, particularly their household autonomy. However, this assumption does not work in one causal direction. The causality relationship works both ways, that women work due to their high level of autonomy, but also because their employment status will increase their autonomy. The aim of this study is to understand the relationship between women’s work status and their household autonomy. This study used data from the Indonesian Demography and Health Survey 2012, together with a multinomial logistic regression analysis on married women’s work status and autonomy as dependent and independent variables, respectively. It was found that work status influences married women’s household autonomy and vice versa. However, the direction and strength of the influence depend on the type of work status and autonomy.

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