Young, Single and Employed: Jordanian Women’s Voices on Impact of Work

1970 ◽  
pp. 50-55
Author(s):  
Mary Kawar
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Working Women ◽  
Women's Voices ◽  
Urban Working

There is an increasing visibility of young urban working women in Amman, Jordan. As compared to previous generations, this group is experiencing a new life cycle trajectory of single employed adulthood. Based on qualitative interviews with young women, this paper will reflect on their experiences and perceptions regarding work, social status and marriage.

Understanding Conceptualizations of Pregnancy and Planning for Pregnancy Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Harare, Zimbabwe

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (9) ◽  
pp. 1509-1519 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiwoneso B. Tinago ◽  
Lucy Annang Ingram ◽  
Edward A. Frongillo ◽  
Christine E. Blake ◽  
Barbara Engelsmann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Maternal Health ◽  
Maternal Mortality ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Adolescent Girls ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Pregnancy Planning

Zimbabwe has one of the highest rates of maternal mortality, yet little is understood about adolescent girls’ and young women’s perspectives on pregnancy or planning for pregnancy. The research study took an emic approach to understand and describe how adolescent girls and young women (14–24 years) in Harare, Zimbabwe, conceptualize pregnancy and planning for pregnancy and how these conceptualizations inform pregnancy decisions. Semi-structured, in-depth, qualitative interviews were conducted with adolescent girls and young women ( N = 48) and data were analyzed thematically using NVivo 10. Pregnancy was conceptualized across nine themes: carrying a child and oneself, growing a family, motherhood, the best time for pregnancy, pregnancy decision makers, who is responsible for the pregnancy, pregnancy burden, pregnancy dangers, and increase in social status with pregnancy. Planning for pregnancy was conceptualized during the prepregnancy, pregnancy, and postpregnancy phases. Findings emphasize considering sociocultural views concerning pregnancy and including social networks in maternal health efforts.

Relationship Fluidity

2020 ◽  
pp. 39-61
Author(s):  
Megan Lindsay Brown ◽  
Judy Krysik ◽  
Walter LaMendola ◽  
Drishti Sinha ◽  
Lauren Reed
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Developmental Trajectories ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
The United States ◽  
Developmental Tasks ◽  
Adult Women ◽  
Adult Identity ◽  
Emerging Adult Women

Emerging adults are persistent users of information and communication technology (ICT), with young women between 18-29 being the highest users of ICT in the United States. Relatively little research has investigated how young women internalize experiences of emerging adulthood in the context of their development, and especially intimate relationships. Using qualitative interviews with young adult women, this chapter will explore how high ICT use mediates the developmental tasks of forming an adult identity and intimate relationships. Emerging adult women (18-29) who were high users of ICT (N=22) described their user habits and discussed their developmental trajectories and experiences. Findings demonstrated that identity and intimacy are still pertinent developmental tasks for emerging adults but have changed in nature allowing a fluidity that challenges the bounds of traditionally developmental theories.

Chart Chicks and Gear Girls

2021 ◽  
pp. 25-48
Author(s):  
Alexandra M. Apolloni
Keyword(s):  
Young Woman ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Music Industry ◽  
Women's Voices ◽  
White Femininity ◽  
The 1960S

This chapter situates the voices of 1960s young women pop singers in a broader landscape of representations of young, white femininity and the historiography of 1960s British pop, Swinging London, and British girlhood. Drawing primarily on music magazines and fashion and entertainment magazines produced for young women in the 1960s (including titles such as Boyfriend, Fabulous, Honey, Mirabelle, and Petticoat) it shows how music was construed as a key element of modern, youthful, white femininity and self-expression. The chapter connects stories told about girl pop singers and popular narratives about young women seeking independence and shows how these stories are ultimately about attaining access to voice. These narratives about young women’s voices shaped music industry attitudes toward young women as consumers and producers of music, in turn shaping the kinds of musical opportunities that were available to girl and young woman singers.

Urban Working Women

2004 ◽  
pp. 56-79
Author(s):  
Susan K. Foley
Keyword(s):  
Working Women ◽  
Urban Working

Health, social status, and the life cycle

1961 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 272-282
Author(s):  
Walter E. Boek ◽  
Jean K. Boek
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Social Status

scholarly journals Introduction: Young women in Europe in the era of ‘first-wave’ feminisms: analyses of generation and gender

2004 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 343-345
Author(s):  
MARY JO MAYNES
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Young People ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
Elementary Schooling ◽  
And Gender ◽  
New Phase

During the course of the nineteenth century, the parameters defining ‘youth’, marking its beginning and its end, were becoming more precise and more institutionally defined for both girls and boys in Europe. More than any other phenomenon or institution, elementary schooling (and leaving school) contributed to a certain ‘normalization’ of the life cycle for young people. By the end of the nineteenth century, most girls as well as boys attended school at least intermittently until at least age 12 or 13; at school-leaving a new phase of life began. Throughout much of Europe a select minority of middle-class and upper-class young women joined their brothers at universities, as higher education became first a possibility and then a routine for them in the last decades of the nineteenth and the first decades of the twentieth century.

South Asian Disabled Women: Negotiating Identities

2005 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 522-538 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasmin Hussain
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Asian Women ◽  
South Asian Women ◽  
Disabled Women

This paper is concerned with the identities of disabled South Asian women within Britain. It presents empirical evidence concerning how disability, gender and ethnicity are negotiated simultaneously for young disabled Muslim and Sikh women. How these identities are negotiated is analysed in the realms of family, religion and marriage drawing on qualitative interviews with the young women, their parents and siblings. The paper argues against ideas of singular identity or the hierarchisation of identities or oppressions. The paper contributes to contemporary debates about how young South Asian women are constructing new forms of identity in Britain.

scholarly journals Of “Old” and “New” Housewives: Everyday Housework and the Limits of Household Rationalization in the Urban Working-Class Milieu of the Weimar Republic

1996 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 305-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Hagemann
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Weimar Republic ◽  
Working Women ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Lively Discussion ◽  
Household Appliances ◽  
Working Class Women ◽  
Material Conditions ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Urban Working

SummaryThe paper centers on the question of how widespread was the impact of the lively discussion of housing and household reform during the Weimar Republic. Therefore the focus is on the experiences of working-class women. Against the background of material conditions in proletarian households, it analyzes which norms and standards concretely shaped working women's everyday housework in the urban working-class milieu in the 1920s, and how these norms and standards arose. The paper demonstrates the substantial reservations and resistance with which even better-off working women approached all efforts at rationalizing their housework in the 1920s. They wanted better living conditions and new household appliances, but the vast majority could not afford both. The specific norms and standards against which a “good” housewife was measured, norms and standards which corresponded more to the “old” model of the “economical, clean and tidy” housewife, also blocked acceptance, however.

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