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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Unpaid care work"”.
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The political economy of gender inequality in South Africa: Why unpaid care work should be recognised in economic policy
… to present a feminist political economy framework within which to understand the nature of gender inequality in South Africa. Particular attention is placed on the role of unpaid care work as this work is shown to be predominantly undertaken by women and still goes unrecognised, despite its …
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An intersectional exploration of the motherload among black mothers in professional occupations in South Africa
Recent work-family research has begun recognising the most invisible aspects of unpaid care work to be the physical, cognitive and emotional care load placed on women. The concept of the motherload, which describes the “highly gendered, often invisible, and undervalued work that those who perform …
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Women's and Men's Health care utilisation from a cost perspective
… thesis was to explore sex differences in health care utilisation and costs (i) in a region in Sweden, (ii) in treatment of dialysis patients across the region, and (iii) in the treatment of specified dermatological diagnoses at an outpatient specialist clinic. Data were retrieved from medical …
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Refugee Economies: labour market integration, the gender gap in employment, and the impact of refugees in Jordan
… affecting the integration of refugees into the workforce in a host country, the correlation between traditional gender roles and the gender gap in labour force supply, and the impact of refugees on the labour market in order to contribute to the literature in this field. Thus, there are three …
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Exploring gender division of labour within households: the case of Schoemansdal Village in Nkomazi Local Municipality, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa
… 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 should …