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Prevalence of Long Hours and Skilled Women's Occupational Choices

open access: yes, 2016
Gender differences in occupations account for a sizable portion of the persistent gender pay gap. This paper examines the relationship between the demand for long hours of work (as proxied for by the share of men working 50 or more hours per week) and ...
Cortes, Patricia, Pan, Jessica
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Behind the Curtain: COVID‐19 as a Lens to Precarity in Museum Labor

open access: yesCurator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using in‐depth interviews with emerging and early professional museum workers in New Orleans, Louisiana, this article expands on scholarship around the perceived and actual value of nonprofit labor. It adds qualitative support to the argument that museum labor is real labor—open to exploitation and abuse while constantly negotiated internally ...
Miriam Taylor Fair
wiley   +1 more source

Revisiting Flexibility Stigma: How Framing Remote Working Shapes Bias Against Remote Workers

open access: yesGender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite the steep rise in working from home practices across the world, stigmatized views against remote workers still exist and are slowly coming back as evidenced by managers' requests for workers to return to the office. Drawing on a national sample of managers in Singapore, this study uses a factorial vignette experiment to examine how the
Senhu Wang, Heejung Chung
wiley   +1 more source

Behind the scenes of Subsidizing Sweatshops II [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide.
International Labor Rights Forum   +1 more
core   +1 more source

“Consultants Who Pick Up Their Children Every Day Don't Exist”: How Professionals Experience Conflicting Norms Through Successive Gendered Trials

open access: yesGender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Norms surrounding ideal workers and parents are gendered: the ideal worker is fully dedicated to the job and outsources care responsibilities, whereas the ideal mother is expected to be entirely devoted to her children. Working mothers can use flexible work arrangements (FWAs) to reduce resulting tensions.
Lucie Noury   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

We All Bleed Red: African American Soldiers and the 1st Maine Heavy Artillery

open access: yes, 2017
Years before the United States military was officially desegregated in 1948, African Americans fought alongside white men in the 1st Maine Heavy Artillery during the Civil War.
Labbe, Savannah A.
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Academia, My Abusive Lover

open access: yesGender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this essay, I will tell the reader about the relationship between Academia—the person, Academia—the institution, and too many female academics. Through these experiences, I will offer examples of some of the typical abuse experienced at the hands of Academia.
Steffi Siegert
wiley   +1 more source

Slow Strategies for Student (and staff) engagement. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The past two years have seen an explosion of interest in the Slow Movement as a response to stress and overwork in universities. Many staff are working less and giving themselves appropriate breaks from academic life.
Faulkner, Simon   +2 more
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On Racialized, Gendered, Precarious Work: Struggles of Community Health Workers During the National Health Insurance Pilot Program in the Tshwane District, South Africa

open access: yesGender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The infrastructure of precarious work is racialized and gendered, affecting disenfranchised Black women who carry the burden of low paid caregiving within the healthcare system. In South Africa, Community Health Workers, predominantly Black women from marginalized communities, have been vital in providing primary healthcare services at home ...
Sivuyisiwe Wonci
wiley   +1 more source

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