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Housework and Social Subversion: Wages, Housework, and Feminist Activism in 1970s Italy and Canada
My dissertation, Housework and Social Subversion: Wages, Housework, and Feminist Activism in 1970s Italy and Canada, presents a history of the Wages for Housework movements in Italy and Canada (1972-1978), looking at the parallel development of autonomist feminist politics in these locations. Based …
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Housework : here today and here tomorrow
… explains time budget data on the division of housework. The data was gathered from 6484 married respondents in the Canadian General Social Survey of 1986. It is examined for the effects of gender, employment,and the presence or absence of a child under 12. The data was also used to replicate a …
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Market substitutes for housework: Variations in use
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of mother's marital and employment status on expenditures for time-saving durables and services. The theoretical framework of this study was derived from the household production model. Data were taken from the 1988-89 Consumer Expenditure Survey. …
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A sociological study of housework as a vocation.
Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology. Paper copy at Leddy Library: Theses & Major Papers - Basement, West Bldg. / Call Number: Thesis1982 .B475. Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 40-07, page: . Thesis (M.A.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 1982.
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Gender, occupation, and time allocation for market work, commuting, and housework
… of employed women's allocation of time for housework, market work, and commuting; to compare the time allocation by women and men in relation to their hourly wages; and also to compare the time allocation of women in male-dominated and non-male-dominated occupations in relation to their …
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Substitution of food away from home for the wife's housework time
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Who's Doing the Dirty Work? Development and Preliminary Validation of a Measure of Housework
… couples' attitudes and behaviors regarding housework. This study was conducted in two phases. The first phase focused on developing reliable subscales that would reflect various dimensions of housework. Phase one consisted of 199 individual participants in committed relationships who were …
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Presence of children and inequality in the household: employment, housework and earnings in European heterosexual couples
The dissertation investigates couples’ gender inequality in paid and unpaid work as well as in earnings, especially as this inequality relates to parenthood with a cross-national focus. The different behavior of partnered women and men in the three areas is investigated in different institutional …
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The Relationship Among Gender, Gender Role Attitudes, and the Anticipated Commitment to Career, Marriage, Family, and Housework
The relationships between gender, gender role attitudes, and participants' anticipation of future life roles (career, marriage, family, and homecare) were examined. Participants consisted of 297 single college students between the ages of 17-29 years (M = 20). Females reported significantly (p< …
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Essays in applied microeconomics
… second, I focus on the gender differential in housework hours and its evolution in the 2001-2009 period. For the maternity leave part, identification relies on geographical and temporal variation of the extensions. Data are drawn from the Annual Report on Social Information (RAIS) and from the …
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IL FEMMINISMO PER IL SALARIO AL LAVORO DOMESTICO IN ITALIA: GENEALOGIE, PRATICHE E PROSPETTIVE INTERNAZIONALI
… and practices of the Italian Wages for Housework movement, which emerged in the early 1970s and soon acquired a transnational dimension. It investigates how activists within Lotta Femminista and, later, the Network of Committees and Groups for Wages for Housework redefined the notion of …
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An Analysis of the Economic and Social Values Attributed to a Variety of Occupations as Portrayed in Adolescent Literature
… categories: professional work, industrial work, housework, hustling work, and counter-cultural work. Each job was then given a prestige rating of 0 to 100. Fourteen of the twenty-two novels focused on professional work, four on industrial work, three on hustling work, one on counter-cultural …
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Exploring gender division of labour within households: the case of Schoemansdal Village in Nkomazi Local Municipality, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa
… still carry out more domestic labour than men. Housework is shared quite unequally among most married couples. Work performed directly in the service of families including housework and childcare is often unacknowledged all over the world because of cultural assumptions that a wife or mother …
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His marriage and her marriage: gender differences in time use in China
… about gender differences in paid work, housework and leisure activities. On the whole, urban women had an equal amount of paid work as men had, their unpaid housework hours doubled or tripled their men's, and their leisure time was one hour less than men's. The gender gap in time use was …
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Conflict and child labor: evidence from poor households in Colombia
… timeallocation to two different types of work: housework and work performed outsidethe household for poor families living in small municipalities in Colombia. I findthat conflict significantly increases the amount of time children allocate to work. Both housework, for girls, and work outside the …
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Explaining the Gender Wage Gap in Rural and Urban China
… factors (such as education, occupation, and housework involvements) affect the wage; (3) assess and compare gender discrimination in the rural and urban labor markets. This paper utilizes the survey data from China Health and Nutrition Survey in 2011. The methods of descriptive statistics, …
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Accounting for the Gender Income Gap in Urban China
… and health), guanxi (social connections), housework, and employment in different sectors of the economy influence the income gap between men and women in urban China when traditional, socialist, and market mechanisms are all present. The data were collected from two large Chinese cities, …
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Three essays in applied microeconomics on contemporary Chinese economic issues
… we show that when parents can help children with housework, they will coreside with higher-educated children whose opportunity cost of housework is higher. On the other hand, when parents need help from children in housework labor, they will coreside with lower-educated children whose opportunity …
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THE GENDERED IMPACT OF THE PANDEMIC: EMPLOYMENT, INCOME AND UNPAID DOMESTIC WORK DURING COVID - 19 PANDEMIC IN EUROPE.
… show shift towards more equal division of unpaid housework and childcare in the lockdown and post-lockdown period within couples in the UK. In Germany, shift towards more equal division is only evident for childcare, while division of housework remains without notable shifts compared to the …
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