scholarly journals Experiences of Being a Couple and Working in Shifts in the Mining Industry: Advances and Continuities

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 2027
Author(s):  
Jimena Silva Segovia ◽  
Pablo Zuleta Pastor ◽  
Estefany Castillo Ravanal ◽  
Tarut Segovia-Chinga
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Division Of Labor ◽  
Shift Work ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Mining Area ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Sexual Division Of Labor ◽  
Mining Work ◽  
Mining Regions

In this study, we sought to understand, from a gender perspective, the experiences of mining couples in Antofagasta, Chile, especially the balance between their intimate lives and the absences of their partners due to the shift work modality. We analyzed testimonies from men and women living in Antofagasta, which is considered to be one of the world’s three largest mining regions. Among the main findings, power relations based on the hegemonic gender model supported by the sexual division of labor were identified, which persist in this mining area, despite progress in gender equality issues in Chile. Although there are differences between the discourses of men and women and their subjective positioning, we propose that both actively collaborate with the reproduction of social gender relations marked by male domination. We propose that the way in which couples live is associated with the organization of mining work and especially the shift system, which is central to the reproduction of the gender order with a heteropatriarchal tone.

scholarly journals REORIENTASI DAYA TAWAR PERAN PEREMPUAN DALAM RUANG PUBLIK PADA RANAH ORGANISASI SOSIAL ISLAM

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Imam Amrusi Jailani
Keyword(s):  
Division Of Labor ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Sexual Relationship ◽  
Social Variables ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Social Conventions ◽  
Sexual Division ◽  
Sexual Division Of Labor ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship

Observing the relationship between men and women, actually recognized the existence of two relationships that are connotative be distinguished, that, sexual relations and gender relations. Sexual relationship is the relationship between men and women based on the demands and biological categories. Whereas gender relations is a concept and a different social reality, in which the sexual division of labor between men and women is not based on an understanding of normative and biological categories, but on the quality, skills, and roles based on social conventions. Thus, the concepts and manifestations of gender relations more dynamic and has the flexibility to consider psycho-social variables were developed. Based on this understanding, it could be someone who is biologically classified as a woman, but from the point of gender may play a role as a man or vice versa. Therefore, we need to reorient the roles of women, especially their involvement in the organization of the Islamic community, which often marginalized.

scholarly journals Kesetaraan dan Keadilan Gender Dalam Usaha Tani Padi Di Desa Tobing Julu Kec Huristak Kab Padang Lawas

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-90
Author(s):  
Risalan Basri Harahap
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Factors ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Division Of Labor ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Rice Farming ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Village Community ◽  
The Relationship

Rice is one of the main agricultural commodities in Tobing Julu Village, Huristak District, Padang Lawas Regency. Rice farming business in general is the main source of livelihood of the local village community. Men and women each play an important role in managing the rice farming, starting from seeds, plowing, planting, matching, fertilizing, harvesting, lifting from the paddy fields to the roadside to be brought home, cleaning the rice (airing). There is still a gap between women and men. then women experience subordination experiencing multiple workloads. Thus the purpose of this study is to analyze the extent of the relationship between farmers' socioeconomic factors (gender, age and level of education) with gender relations in the division of labor and household gender equality in Tobing Julu Village and to analyze the division of labor between men and women related to local socio-cultural aspects. The location of this research is Tobing Julu Village, Huristak District, Padang Lawas Regency. The results of the analysis show that gender inequalities in the form of subordination and multiple workloads still occur for women, especially in farming as one of the main commodities to fulfill the family's needs

scholarly journals Gender Identity Construction Through Traditional and Modern Lenses: Rwandan Narratives and MDGs Perspectives

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 95
Author(s):  
Jean De Dieu Amini Ngabonziza ◽  
Emmanuel Sibomana ◽  
Epimaque Niyibizi ◽  
Irenée Ndayambaje
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Women Empowerment ◽  
Traditional Beliefs ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Different Parts

While there is an on-going debate about what constitutes current policies and practices on gender equality between men and women in Rwanda, there is general agreement that Rwandan traditional beliefs and cultural norms have produced a patriarchy ideology and unequal power relations between women and men. Such traditional beliefs are not only observed in Rwanda, but in different parts of the world as well; and it is still problematic to assess a framework in which current gender policies are redesigned to allocate equitable power between women and men. This study focuses on the analysis and comparison of issues of gender identity and power relations as embedded in the Rwandan short narratives and in the Millennium Development Goals on gender equality. More specifically, this study investigates the design and redesign of the issues related to power relations and their effect on gender identity conception and assumption. Analysed from Marxist theories of power and Thompson’s modes perspectives, the findings suggest that Rwandan traditional narratives view men as more powerful than women and the society expects more from men in terms of responsibilities. As for the Millennium Development Goals, they focus on women empowerment only and thereby create a new imbalance between men and women. The paper recommends equality in terms of a maleness and femaleness ideology from policy to legislation and other domains.

scholarly journals La Igualdad de Género en la Función Pública del Estado Ecuatoriano / Gender Equality in Ecuadorian Public Service

Ciencia Unemi ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (16) ◽  
pp. 107
Author(s):  
Alexandra Ruano Sanchez
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Hierarchical System ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Participation Of Women ◽  
History Of ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
Constitutive Element

Cuando se analiza la igualdad de género en el Estado ecuatoriano es importante relacionar la desigualdad y la exclusión, que son sistemas de una pertenencia jerarquizada. Existe una realidad tan común en las sociedades donde se identifica, de manera errónea, la igualdad de género o estudia de manera superficial los logros en cuanto a derecho de las mujeres, rezagado o disminuido por muchos años por todas las sociedades. Género no es sinónimo de mujer, feminismo o sexo, pero si tiene una gran relación con estos términos, es algo más complejo que tiene que ver con el elemento constitutivo de las relaciones sociales y las relaciones de poder. Lamentablemente el problema sigue vigente y con mucho aún que discutir, algunos doctrinarios opinan que tal vez la solución es que los hombres y las mujeres compartan, en igualdad condiciones, responsabilidades, pero esto no es necesariamente la punta del iceberg. Este trabajo ofrece una breve historia de la participación de la mujer en la función pública, haciendo énfasis en los últimos años, en los cuales surge la igualdad de género en la vida política y pública de la mujer ecuatoriana. AbstractWhen gender equality in Ecuador is discussed, it is important to relate inequality and exclusion, which are a hierarchical system of belonging. There is such a common reality in societies where gender equality is erroneously identified or the achievements in terms of women’s rights are superficially studied, behind or decreased for many years by all the societies. Gender is not synonymous of women, feminism or sex, but it is strongly related with these terms, it is more complex that has to do with the constitutive element of social and power relations. Unfortunately, the problem is still in force and with a lot to discuss, some doctrinaire state that perhaps the solution is that men and women share, on equal terms of conditions and responsibilities, but this is not necessarily the tip of the iceberg. This paper provides a brief history of the participation of women in public service, emphasizing in recent years, in which gender equality in political and public life of Ecuadorian women emerges.

African Feminisms and Co-constructing a Collaborative Future with Men: Namibian Women in Mining’s Discourses

2020 ◽  
pp. 089331892097398
Author(s):  
Valerie Biwa
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Communication Theory ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Symbolic Action ◽  
Mineral Mining

This study examines discourses of gender equality, inclusion, and empowerment in the mineral mining industry, focusing on the Women in Mining Association of Namibia (WiMAN). Qualitative content analysis revealed four themes: women as activists, women as hard workers, women as negotiators, and women as aligned with men. Building on African feminisms, the study emphasizes co-constructed, conciliatory, and collaborative symbolic action between men and women. These insights dislocate and denaturalize taken-for-granted assumptions espoused by some forms of Western feminisms which assume that feminist symbolic action requires antagonism and competition between women and men. In doing so, this study answers Broadfoot and Munshi’s (2007) call to diversify and enrich communication theory by including concepts, methods, and perspectives from around the globe.

scholarly journals “I think it is [the] mother who keeps things going”: The gendered division of labor in the transmission of memory of the Armenian Genocide

2021 ◽  
pp. 175069802098875
Author(s):  
Öndercan Muti ◽  
Öykü Gürpınar
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Division Of Labor ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Armenian Genocide ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Gendered Division Of Labor ◽  
The Social ◽  
Gender Influences ◽  
Memory Transmission

In this paper, we discuss what role gender plays in remembering, transmitting, and reframing memories of the Armenian Genocide in order to address the question of how young Armenian women negotiate their roles in this process. Centering the societal roles of memory transmission, we employ the specific sociological lens of gender to analyze 26 interviews conducted in Beirut during the week of the official commemorations of the Armenian Genocide in 2016. We define gender as the social construction of a stylized repetition of acts that reflect power relations. Accordingly, the examination of these power relations is necessary not only to understand the experiences and testimonies of men and women, but also the transmission of memory. While understanding Armenian youth as agents of the collective memory, gender allows us to discuss different patterns of remembrance and transmission. We therefore argue that gender influences how individuals remember the Armenian Genocide, as it underpins the (historically) assigned roles of memory and transmission.

scholarly journals Institutional Sufism in Contemporary Pakistan: Theorizing Gender through Practice

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saad ali Khan
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Secondary Literature ◽  
Gender Egalitarianism ◽  
Gender Hierarchy ◽  
Asymmetrical Power ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Analytical Category

The article aims to question the easily given and accepted notion of “gender equality” and “gender egalitarianism and justice” in Sufism in Pakistan, which does not (otherwise) question the power relations between man and woman given within practice of Sufism. The analysis does not draw on theological undertones rather it relies on socially lived reality of understanding “gender” and the hierarchy as it is practiced, mediated and legitimized in the daily life of people through Sufism. The study problematizes the concept of ‘gender’ in practice of Sufism in Pakistan through the works of Joan W Scott. It attempts to examine how gender is articulated within Sufism through practice in Pakistan. Sufism in contemporary Pakistan practiced through shrines, orders and mater-disciple relationship, when analyzed through the analytical category of gender i.e. power relations between men and women that operate within and across four interrelated social levels, reveals its gendered nature. I contend, that claims of gender egalitarianism or gender equality within Sufism (discursive level) is not actually practiced in the realm of activity instead, Sufism in practice reconstitutes or reestablishes gendered order or duality and gender hierarchy within society. With the critical examination of secondary literature, these assumedly claims and notions of gender egalitarianism, when contested or problematized, reveals the hidden gendered face of Sufism in Pakistan. Therefore Sufism as practiced in contemporary Pakistan constitutes discrimination, difference, hierarchal and asymmetrical power relations between women and men.  

scholarly journals KESETARAAN GENDER DAN RELASI KUASA DALAM TAFSIR AL-QUR’AN TEMATIK KEMENTERIAN AGAMA REPUBLIK INDONESIA

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Tinggal Purwanto
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Domestic Sphere ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Public ◽  
The People ◽  
The Government ◽  
Discriminatory Effect

<p><em>Tafsir Al-Qur’an Tematik</em><em> is a product of mufassir creative dialectic with the text of the Qur'an which contains interrelated elements among various interests as produced by involving the Government. This engagement raises the question of the supposedly dialectical interpretation, while raising questions about the product of tafsir, especially regarding the interpretation of gender equality which indicates a power-knowledge relations built for a particular interest. This study aims to explain how power-knowledge relations operate in the book, especially in constructing gender equality. With that purpose, the theory of gender equality and the theory of power-knowledge relations is used to achieve the intended purpose. </em></p><p><em>The this study finds that power-knowledge relations flow in the Tafsir Al-Qur’an Tematik. Power relations operate in a dialectical and productive manner through initiation, election, accommodation, contestation, controversy, negotiation and compromise of the exegeteers in compiling the tafsir. The mufassir not only try to explain the book of the Qur'an alone, but also attempt to construct the life of the people to be in line with the Government agenda. The mufassir does attempt to construct an equal relationship between men and women, but the construction is not wholly objective and neutral as it still leaves a more discriminatory effect prioritizing men in the public domain and women in the domestic sphere. These power-knowledge relations operate systematically by controlling power relations with truth so as to give rise to more equitable constructions directed to regulate the lives of people on behalf of increased productivity. By its mechanism, power-knowledge normalizes the lives of people with a construction of gender equality that is essentially loaded with power politics.</em></p><p> </p><em>Keywords: tafsir, gender equality, and power relations.</em><p><em>Tafsir Al-Qur’an Tematik</em><em> is a product of mufassir creative dialectic with the text of the Qur'an which contains interrelated elements among various interests as produced by involving the Government. This engagement raises the question of the supposedly dialectical interpretation, while raising questions about the product of tafsir, especially regarding the interpretation of gender equality which indicates a power-knowledge relations built for a particular interest. This study aims to explain how power-knowledge relations operate in the book, especially in constructing gender equality. With that purpose, the theory of gender equality and the theory of power-knowledge relations is used to achieve the intended purpose. </em></p><p><em>The this study finds that power-knowledge relations flow in the Tafsir Al-Qur’an Tematik. Power relations operate in a dialectical and productive manner through initiation, election, accommodation, contestation, controversy, negotiation and compromise of the exegeteers in compiling the tafsir. The mufassir not only try to explain the book of the Qur'an alone, but also attempt to construct the life of the people to be in line with the Government agenda. The mufassir does attempt to construct an equal relationship between men and women, but the construction is not wholly objective and neutral as it still leaves a more discriminatory effect prioritizing men in the public domain and women in the domestic sphere. These power-knowledge relations operate systematically by controlling power relations with truth so as to give rise to more equitable constructions directed to regulate the lives of people on behalf of increased productivity. By its mechanism, power-knowledge normalizes the lives of people with a construction of gender equality that is essentially loaded with power politics.</em></p><p> </p>

scholarly journals Conciliación (laboral y familiar) = Reconciliation (of work and family life)

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Palomo Cermeño
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Division Of Labor ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Sexual Division ◽  
Sexual Division Of Labor ◽  
Work Family

 Resumen: La conciliación de la vida personal, familiar y laboral supone un reto para cualquier sociedad que pretenda hacer efectiva la igualdad de género. El actual desarrollo de políticas públicas en este sentido se enfrenta a diversos obstáculos económicos, políticos e ideológicos relacionados con el modo en que se ha conformado y conceptualizado históricamente la división sexual del trabajo en torno a dos espacios separados y jerarquizados: el público y el privado. Se revisa el marco normativo español y europeo en el que se insertan las diversas medidas de conciliación. Por último, se hace referencia a los debates más actuales en torno a los principales logros y limitaciones de las medidas de conciliación, y a la necesidad de desarrollar una verdadera corresponsabilidad entre mujeres y hombres respecto a las responsabilidades domésticas y de cuidados.Palabras clave: Conciliación de la vida laboral y familiar, corresponsabilidad, cuidados, división sexual del trabajo, igualdad de género, políticas públicas.Abstract: The reconciliation of work and family life is a challenge for any society willing to implement gender equality. The present development of public policies in this sense faces different economic, political and ideological obstacles related to how the sexual division of labor has been shaped and conceptualized historically around two separate and hierarchical public and private spheres. The Spanish and European legal framework in which reconciliation policies are inserted is revised. Finally, present debates on reconciliation measures’ main achievements and constraints as well as the need to develop real co-responsibility between women and men regarding domestic and care work are raised.Keywords: Work/family reconciliation, co-responsibility, care, sexual division of labor, gender equality, public policies.

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