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WOMEN'S WORK AND WORKING WOMEN
Gender & Society, 2001The demand for female labor is a central explanatory component of macrostructural theories of gender stratification. This study analyzes how the structural demand for female labor affects gender differences in labor force participation. The authors develop a measure of the gendered demand for labor by indexing the degree to which the occupational ...
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Work, 1994
An understanding of what work means to women is provided with an overview of history; a review of unpaid work, including child care, parental care, and volunteerism; and the current status of women and work. Women's leadership style emphasizing team building, empowerment, and a consensus model is described. The need for validation of the multiple roles
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An understanding of what work means to women is provided with an overview of history; a review of unpaid work, including child care, parental care, and volunteerism; and the current status of women and work. Women's leadership style emphasizing team building, empowerment, and a consensus model is described. The need for validation of the multiple roles
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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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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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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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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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2023
My grandmother, Wilma Eileen Sickels, my father’s mother, was born in 1922 and raised four children in southeastern Ohio, in the rolling foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, where the trains used to carry coal from West Virginia, and out of the green hills people carved small sustenance farms.
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My grandmother, Wilma Eileen Sickels, my father’s mother, was born in 1922 and raised four children in southeastern Ohio, in the rolling foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, where the trains used to carry coal from West Virginia, and out of the green hills people carved small sustenance farms.
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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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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 Knowledge, Women’s Work
2018In this chapter Jones notes that while there are no strict gender lines in the practice of traditional medicine locally, there are some obvious distinctions. Jones shows that these relate mainly to the expectations of women; as carers, as cultivators and as firewood collectors.
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2017
Nettie Arthur Brown’s The Red Fan (1896) was typical of the humorous spoken-word compositions in twentieth-century America. Due to female elocutionists’ performance traditions, women became the primary composers of melodramatic compositions, including a few modernist composers, such as Ruth Crawford Seeger and Marion Bauer.
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Nettie Arthur Brown’s The Red Fan (1896) was typical of the humorous spoken-word compositions in twentieth-century America. Due to female elocutionists’ performance traditions, women became the primary composers of melodramatic compositions, including a few modernist composers, such as Ruth Crawford Seeger and Marion Bauer.
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Analyses of three Late Mississippian house floors from the Little Egypt site (9Mu102) were undertaken to discern discrete activity areas used by women and men. Areas were identified by seeking patterns of spatially co-occurring artifact types associated with specific activities, activities frequently correlated strongly with a specific gender in cross ...
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Journal of post anesthesia nursing, 1995
More women than ever before are working outside their homes. Many of these women are caught in a conflict between internal needs, desires, and beliefs and external demands. Work can become merely a means to an end, a burden to be endured, or a satisfying aspect of our lives. Some strategies for creating and defining ourselves for ourselves are offered.
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More women than ever before are working outside their homes. Many of these women are caught in a conflict between internal needs, desires, and beliefs and external demands. Work can become merely a means to an end, a burden to be endured, or a satisfying aspect of our lives. Some strategies for creating and defining ourselves for ourselves are offered.
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