scholarly journals Care, Gender, and Change in the Study of Sustainable Consumption: A Critical Review of the Literature

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurence Godin ◽  
Justine Langlois
Keyword(s):  
Critical Review ◽  
Sustainable Consumption ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Heating And Cooling ◽  
Sustainable Lifestyles ◽  
Consumption Practices ◽  
And Gender ◽  
A Site

In Western countries, moving toward more sustainable lifestyles often involves the disruption of well-established routines and habits in relation to consumption domains such as food, washing and cleaning, heating and cooling, transportation, and managing “stuff” more generally. These activities are deeply embedded in our everyday lives and often tied to care, which is the work invested in maintaining the well-being of oneself and others. In this paper, we are interested in the ways sustainable consumption and care interlock within the household, how they relate to gender inequalities, and how change toward more sustainable lifestyles can both impact and be impacted by these inequalities. With this in mind, we conducted a critical review of the academic literature by analyzing a corpus of 75 papers on household consumption and sustainability, paying particular attention to the role authors attribute to care and gender. The analysis shines light on the relational character of care and consumption, emphasizing the ways sustainable consumption is dependent on relationships within and outside the home. We suggest that care often acts as a barrier to the establishment of more sustainable consumption practice. Care work, per definition, upholds routines and habits while mobilizing the very resources that are needed to transform them. This insight invites us to rethink the role of households as a site for change. We suggest that the transition toward more sustainable consumption practices within the home relies on reducing and redistributing care work, transforming the world of work, and actively promoting an ethos of care that includes people, other beings, the material world and the planet.

Family Relationships and the Health and Well-Being of Transgender and Gender-Diverse Youth: A Critical Review

LGBT Health ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (8) ◽  
pp. 407-419
Author(s):  
Camille Brown ◽  
Carolyn M. Porta ◽  
Marla E. Eisenberg ◽  
Barbara J. McMorris ◽  
Renee E. Sieving
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationships ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Gender Diverse ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Health And Well Being ◽  
Diverse Youth

scholarly journals Donne al lavoro in Italia tra parità formale e disparità sostanziale

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tania Toffanin
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Full Time ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Condition Of Women ◽  
The Welfare State

The contribution aims to articulate in critical terms the condition of women in Italy, in light of the recent transformations that have affected the welfare state and labour market. In particular, the attention has been paid to the more hidden aspects of the recent reforms implemented by Italian governments, concerning the relation between care work and social and material changes. The casualization of labour among young women is producing a postponement of the reproductive choices while among older ones, especially the unskilled ones, it is producing a returning as a full-time housewives, with all the implications that this dynamic has in terms of loss of emancipation and autonomy. For many women the impossibility to balance work and personal life is leading to their exclusion from the labour market. The reflections developed in this paper aim to highlight the process of invisibilization that continues to mark the reproductive work and the consequences that this process has on the reproduction of class and gender inequalities.

scholarly journals “Ahí voy a estar hasta que Dios me preste vida”. Mujeres en grupos de Alcohólicos Anónimos durante la emergencia sanitaria por el COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-44
Author(s):  
Nancy Araceli Méndez Romero ◽  
Martha Patricia Romero Mendoza ◽  
Addis Abeba Salinas Urbina
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Mutual Help ◽  
Telephone Interviews ◽  
Recovery Experiences ◽  
The Face ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Experiences Of Women ◽  
Health Objective

Introduction: women have increased the consumption of alcohol, affecting their well-being, to this is added the situation of lag they face in receiving specialized treatment, treating their ailments in mutual-help groups, this scenario affects social and gender inequalities. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbates these conditions, affecting specific life situations of women and their health. Objective: to understand the experience of women who receive support for their recovery due to problems due to alcohol consumption in groups of Alcoholics Anonymous in the context of COVID-19. Method: qualitative study. Sampling by opportunity defined the participation of four women from “AA”. During May 2020, telephone interviews were conducted under informed consent. A thematic analysis was developed and Atlas.ti was used. The perspective on collective health and gender guided the analysis. Results: when analyzing the information, three categories were identified. The first contextualizes the recovery experiences of women. The following categories reveal the situations experienced in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic and physical distancing. The findings were: gender roles and stereotypes are reaffirmed by expressing harassment and discrediting; family burdens and worries increase; participation in its recovery decreased. Discussion and conclusions: in the context of COVID-19, the participation of AA women in their recovery decreased, putting their well-being at risk, despite the fact that international organizations recommended continuing the care of people with mental health problems and incorporating community actions.

scholarly journals Social Care and Gender: Who Cares for Dependent Adults in Spain?

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-109
Author(s):  
Violeta De Vera ◽  
Daniel Ondé ◽  
Martín Martín-González
Keyword(s):  
Informal Care ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Institutional Support ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
National Health Survey ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Economic Reality ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Object Of Study

Care work encompasses a series of tasks of distinct social and economic importance; however, it has not been a traditional object of study in Economics. The main objective of this article is to analyze the factors that intervene in informal care work in Spain. To approach this, an econometric analysis will be conducted using the National Health Survey (ENS as its Spanish acronym) carried out by the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) of Spain. The results show that, in Spain, dependent adults do not receive the institutional support they need to perform basic daily activities. In fact, practically all of the care they receive is informal. This article will demonstrate that, within the household, women are responsible for informal care work whenever a family member is in need of such services. Our research shows that this is a consistent pattern regardless of the carer’s personal characteristics and level of education as well as the characteristics of the dependent adult living in the household. These findings reveal the necessity of reorienting public policies in order to help reduce gender inequalities caused by this socio-economic reality.

Impacts of COVID-19 on parents with small children in South Korea: survey findings and policy implications

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ito Peng ◽  
Jiweon Jun
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Unequal Distribution ◽  
Small Children ◽  
Instrumental Approach ◽  
Unpaid Care ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
And Gender

The COVID-19 pandemic has emphasised the importance of care and care work, and exposed pre-existing inequalities. Our survey of the impacts of COVID-19 on parents with small children in South Korea reveals that mothers were much more likely to bear the increased burden of childcare than fathers, which, in turn, had direct and negative impacts on their well-being. We discuss how South Korea’s dualised labour market, gender-biased employment practice, social norms about childcare and instrumental approach to family and care policies may have contributed to the persistent unequal distribution of unpaid care work within households and gender inequality.

scholarly journals “Body Work” in Home‐Based Substance Abuse Care

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 256-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirsi Günther
Keyword(s):  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Home Visit ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Body ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Body Work ◽  
Home Based ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
A Site

This study examines “body work” in the context of home‐based substance abuse care in Finland, which is provided to adults with intoxicant problems and needing short‐ and long‐term support in their everyday lives. This article is concerned specifically with body work, which can be defined as care work focusing directly on the bodies of others. Through a twofold analysis of 13 audio‐recorded home visits and ethnographic field notes, it examines what body work is in home‐based substance abuse care, how close body work is and how workers and clients negotiate about it. The study shows that home as a site of care has an impact on substance abuse care. The worker’s home visit settles into a tension relation between private and public even if the care is a part of weekly routine. Body work is holistic care work necessitating slight, medium, and extreme bodily intimacy in taking care of and supporting client’s well‐being. During the home visit, worker and client negotiate the body work and its content. Worker and client communicate verbally and non‐verbally by gaze and body movements. Often the workers have to balance between disciplinary, participatory, and caring approaches to support the client living in the best possible way.

scholarly journals Limited, considered and sustainable consumption: The (non)consumption practices of UK minimalists

2021 ◽  
pp. 146954052110396
Author(s):  
Amber Martin-Woodhead
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Consumption ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Ethical Consumption ◽  
Sustainable Practices ◽  
Consumption Practices ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Bare Minimum

Minimalism is an increasingly popular lifestyle movement in western economies (predominantly in the USA, Japan and Europe) that involves voluntarily reducing consumption and limiting one’s possessions to a bare minimum. This is with the intention of making space for the ‘important’ (potentially immaterial) things that are seen to add meaning and value to one’s life. Drawing on interviews with minimalists in the UK, this article reveals that minimalists practice sustainable (non)consumption via limiting their consumption. This is achieved by actively buying less, using up and maintaining what is owned, and, when objects are acquired, only practising highly intentional, considered and (sometimes) ethical consumption. For some, such practices are predominantly based on strong ethical and environmental motivations or are seen as a positive ‘by-product’ of their minimalist lifestyles. Whilst for others, their motivations are primarily aligned to personal well-being. The article subsequently argues that the limited and considered practices of minimalist consumption can be seen as sustainable practices in outcome, if not always in intent.

scholarly journals Latent gender inequalities in the well-being of physicians according to payment method for practicing medicine: a cross-sectional study

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Nicolás Peña-Sánchez ◽  
Rein Lepnurm ◽  
Silvia Bermedo-Carrasco
Keyword(s):  
Career Satisfaction ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Payment Method ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Female Physicians ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Dependent Variables ◽  
And Gender

Background: Female physicians face extra challenges in their career development and tend to choose salary or other forms of alternative payment plans (APP). Fee-for-service (FFS) and APP may affect the well-being of female and male physicians differently. Three measures of well-being are: levels of career satisfaction, professional equity, and daily distress. The objectives are to identify differences in the levels of career satisfaction, fulfillment-recognition equity, and daily distress of physicians by gender and payment method, and to assess interactions between these two factors. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in 2011 with physicians practicing in the Saskatoon Health Region, Saskatchewan, Canada. Resident physicians were excluded from the study. Eligible physicians completed a survey, assessing levels of daily distress, fulfillment-recognition equity, and career satisfaction as dependent variables. A multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA), using the Wilks’ Lambda criterion, was conducted to study differences among the dependent variables by remuneration method and gender. Multiple comparisons were performed as post-hoc tests. Results: Nearly half (382) of the 794 eligible physicians completed the questionnaire; 37.2% were female. Half were remunerated by FFS, a quarter by APP, and the remainder by blended forms. Career satisfaction and fulfillment- recognition equity were positively correlated to each other and daily distress was negatively correlated with both. According to the MANOVA results, the dependent variables were affected by gender but not by payment method, and there was no evidence of an interaction effect between payment method and gender. Women reported lower levels of career satisfaction (p=0.01) and fulfillment-recognition equity (p=0.01), and higher levels of daily distress (p=0.03). Conclusion: Female physicians reported poorer well-being than male physicians. In contrast, no differences in the well-being were found among physicians paid by APP, blended methods, and FFS schemes. Further cross-national studies are recommended to study potential effects of APP on the identified gender inequalities.

Well-being: between gender inequalities and health

2012 ◽  
pp. 98-119
Author(s):  
Rita Biancheri
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Personal History ◽  
The Other ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Welfare Systems ◽  
Life Context ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The One ◽  
Sick Individual

Up to now, in the traditional biomedical paradigm the terms "sex" and "gender" have either been used synonymously and the insertion of gender among the determining elements of conditions of wellbeing/disease has been difficult, and obstructed by disciplinary rigidities that retarded the acceptance of an approach which had already been largely found to be valid in other areas of research. The effected simplification demonstrated its limitations in describing the theme of health; but if, on the one hand, there has been a growing awareness of a subject which can in no way be considered "neutral", on the other hand there continues to be insufficient attention, both in theoretical analysis and in empirical research, given to female differences. The article is intended to support that the sick individual is a person, with his/her genetic heritage, his/her own cultural acquisitions and personal history, and own surrounding life context; but these and similar factors have not traditionally been taken into consideration by official medicine and welfare systems, despite a hoped-for socio-health integration.

Advancing Food Well-Being in Poverty Through Intersectionality

2021 ◽  
pp. 183933492199887
Author(s):  
Farhan Ashik ◽  
Archana Voola ◽  
Ranjit Voola ◽  
Jamie Carlson ◽  
Jessica Wyllie
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Consumption Practices ◽  
Food Policies ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Ethnicity And Gender ◽  
Frugal Innovations

This article explores the importance of employing intersectionality when investigating food well-being (FWB) in poverty framework. We argue that this approach provides a more nuanced and realistic lens for both marketers and policy makers when developing FWB strategies in the context of poverty. To this end, this article focuses on the intersection of ethnicity and gender to examine food consumption practices of two groups of women living in poverty in Bangladesh. Specifically, the research design uses semi-structured interviews with 16 Santal (ethnic minority) and 14 Muslim (ethnic majority) women to explore commonalities and differences in their consumption experiences. The findings provide new insights into how marketers and policy makers can engage with diverse ethnic communities to enhance their FWB. This article contributes to the FWB literature by introducing intersectionality as a mechanism to uncover differences in advantage and disadvantage based on overlapping categories of ethnicity, gender, and class. Implications for marketers and policy makers include (a) developing food policies that pay attention and respect to cultural norms and sociohistorical experiences, (b) creating and shaping social networks, (c) investing in infrastructure and utilities that prioritize ethnic minorities, and (d) seeking out jugaad (frugal) innovations.

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