scholarly journals Women’s Work and Men

Aspasia ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-98
Author(s):  
Natalia Jarska
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Working Women ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Significant Shift ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Paid Employment ◽  
Male Breadwinner ◽  
Employment Of Women

Through the use of selected contemporary sociological research and prolific collections of largely unpublished memoirs, this article analyzes men’s attitudes toward the paid employment of women—particularly married women—in post-Stalinist Poland. The personal narratives reveal an increasing acceptance of women’s work outside the household over time and across generations. A significant shift in Polish men’s attitudes to a greater acceptance of women’s paid employment took place in the younger generation, born in the 1930s and 1940s and socialized after World War II. However, hostile attitudes of working-class men toward working women persisted, based on a continuing aspiration to uphold the male breadwinner family model.

scholarly journals Working Women and Women's Work

1970 ◽  
pp. 3-5
Author(s):  
Patricia Nabti
Keyword(s):  
Working Women ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Women’S Work

When referring to women who are not engaged in employmentfor financial rewards people often say she ((doesn't work orthat "she is just a housewife"

Redefining “Women’s Work”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Milkman
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Division Of Labor ◽  
Automobile Industry ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Equal Pay ◽  
Auto Workers ◽  
Sexual Division ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Job Segregation ◽  
Sexual Division Of Labor

This chapter examines the sexual division of labor in the automobile industry during World War II to find out whether job segregation by gender had been dismantled during the war. It begins with a discussion of “women's work” in the auto industry in the prewar period and goes on to explore how the idiom of sex-typing of occupations was implemented and readjusted in the face of a dramatic change in the economic constraints on the sexual division of labor, along with the ensuing political struggles over the redefinition of the boundaries between “women's work” and “men's work.” It then considers the ambiguity and labor–management conflict over “women's work,” the various exclusionary tactics employed by male auto workers against women, and the disputes over the question of equal pay in the industry during the war. It also discusses the process through which war factories reproduced new patterns of job segregation by sex in the industry, instead of eliminating it.

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.

Female Breadwinners in State Socialism: The Value of Women's Work for Wages in Post-Stalinist Poland

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 469-483
Author(s):  
Natalia Jarska
Keyword(s):  
Women's Work ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
State Socialism ◽  
Popular Opinion ◽  
Wage Work ◽  
Women’S Work

AbstractThis article examines popular opinion about women's wage work in the late 1950s and early 1960s in Poland, using letters to institutions and sociological research from this period. It introduces the notion of female breadwinning as a useful category to describe the understanding of women's wage work under state socialism. Opinions on women's wage work varied, but all of them were based on gender assumptions. Women's and men's work were valued differently. Men's work had an indisputable, independent position. Women's work was evaluated in the context of family. Women could be breadwinners, but not equal to male ones; their wage work was perceived as secondary.

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