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Women and the Work of Community [PDF]

open access: possibleEnvironment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2003
The term ‘community’ is an integral part of the discourse regarding social-service and human-service delivery in the United States, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom. Yet, there are a host of meanings and goals that are part of the project of community; these meanings reflect the ambiguous position of community with respect to ideas of ...
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Women, work, and menopause

Menopause, 1991
Menopause occurs in American women at an average age of 51. At this time in their lives a majority of today’s women work outside the home for pay at least part-time, if not full-time (McKinlay, 1988). There is considerable evidence that women who are working experience fewer symptoms at menopause and are better able to cope with the stresses of family ...
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Women's Work

2018
What's it really like to be a mother with a career working flexibly? Drawing on over 100 hours of interview data, this book is the first to go inside women's work and family lives in a year of working flexibly. The private labours of going part-time, job sharing, and home working are brought to life with vivid personal stories.
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The Work Burden of Women

Science, 2001
Societies abound where women work both in the home and out of the home, whereas male cohabitants work only out of the home (1). However, objective data have long been lacking to document the consequences of this phenomenon. This is of concern in starvation-threatened populations because social, economic, and nutritional planning does not account for ...
J A, Levine   +5 more
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Women working for women

Women's Studies International Forum, 1988
Abstract This article raises some of the issues of being defined as a “Community Women's Workshop” at the Congress in Ireland. Background information is given on the organisers of the Women Working for Women course. The course aimed to place the problems and issues facing women working for women in the context of the role and value of women in ...
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Women's work in Guatemala

WORK: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment & Rehabilitation, 2005
Objective: The purpose of this paper is to describe women's work in Maya communities in the Guatemala Highlands, along with some of the trends accompanying the rapid societal change there. Method: Over the course of six years, observations and interviews focused on two specific groups of women.
Bette R, Bonder   +3 more
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Women and Strenuous Work

Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 1977
Eight females (mean age 19.6 years) worked on a treadmill for a work day consisting of eight partially counterbalanced 45-minute periods (one of light work, two of moderate work, three of heavy work, and two of very heavy work) followed by a 15-minute rest period.
M G, Wardle, D S, Gloss
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Nurses as Working Women

AORN Journal, 2001
ABSTRACTWomen today make up nearly half of the nation's workforce. A number of these women have children at home, and women also often are responsible for providing care to older adult family members or friends. The different roles assigned to women in today's society are burdensome, particularly for nurses who deal with the stress of managed care ...
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The “Invisible Work” of Women

2020
This chapter explores how Chinese cultural expressions of charity, based on interpersonal relationships ( guanxi ) and native place ( tongxiang ) ties, came to mix and interact with contrasting traditions of Christian charity practiced in a ...
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Working with Women in ICTD

Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, 2017
The fifth Sustainable Development Goal instituted by the United Nations in 2015 presents a call for gender equality, targeting the elimination of "discrimination, violence, and exploitation against women". We present an analysis of recent conversations within the Information and Communication Technology and Development (ICTD) community aiming to ...
Jasmine Hentschel   +4 more
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