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Achieving Gender Equality through Paid and Unpaid Work: An Exploration of Mothers’ Perspectives on Work

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2023
The prevailing understanding of work as paid work is reflected in political efforts to achieve gender equality, which include emphasising that women, like men, should increasingly pursue paid work.
Sarah Madörin, Sofia Jacinto
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Respect, status and domestic work: Female migrants at home and work [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The transition from adolescence to adulthood is a complex and often contradictory process for female, ethnic minority, migrant strangers, moving as domestic workers to Delhi, India’s capital.
Rao, Nitya
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“I Didn’t Come Here to do Housework”: 'Relocating “Swedish” practices and ideologies in the context of the global division of labour: the case of expatriate households in Singapore'

open access: yesNordic Journal of Migration Research, 2012
On the basis of 13 in-depth interviews with Swedish women and one month of ethnographic work in the Swedish community in Singapore in 2009, this article examines how Swedish women, travelling from Sweden to Singapore as “expatriate wives” in the wake of ...
Catrin Lundström
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FDI and Domestic Investment: An Industry-Level View [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Previous empirical work on the link between domestic and foreign investment provides mixed results which partly depend on the level of aggregation of the data.
Arndt, Christian   +2 more
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Trabajo infantil doméstico en San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, México

open access: yesConfluenze, 2022
This article describes violence experienced by girls, children and adolescents who perform child domestic work in third party households in the City of San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas.
Sarai Miranda Juárez
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Live-in domestic workers : overworked, underpaid and overlooked [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Live-in domestics are the housekeepers, nannies and home health care workers that live with the families they work for five to seven nights a week. Like other domestics, the live-in domestics interviewed for this report suffered restriction of movement ...
Rodríguez Ortiz, Omar
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Gendered division of domestic work and willingness to have more children in China

open access: yesDemographic Research, 2017
Background: Fertility research in the new century has shifted from how gender equality may suppress fertility to issues of how gender equality in the family may help recover fertility, as low fertility persists among developed countries. In contrast with
Juhua Yang
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Nájemní domácí práce v kontextu genderových vztahů, postsocialistického vývoje rodinné politiky a ideálů péče [PDF]

open access: yesGender a Výzkum, 2019
Review of book Sekeráková Búriková, Z.: Panie k deťom a na ...
Hana Hašková
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Feminist Reflections on the Scope of Labour Law: Domestic Work, Social Reproduction and Jurisdiction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Drawing on feminist labour law and political economy literature, I argue that it is crucial to interrogate the personal and territorial scope of labour.
Andreas Wimmer   +74 more
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Le catéchisme et la machine à coudre. Cartes postales missionnaires et travail féminin en Afrique de l’Ouest (1920-1940)

open access: yesImages du Travail, Travail des Images, 2019
Based on a corpus of missionary postcards dating from the 1920s and 1930s and devoted to West Africa, this article aims to analyze the transmission of a certain conception of women's work in the colonial missionary context.
Julien Bondaz
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