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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Women's Labor"”.
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Religious Affiliation and Women's Labor Patterns in U.S. Counties
… United States has experienced a large influx of women, particularly those with young children, into the paid labor force. Concurrently, adults across the country have steadily moved away from organized religion. Nonetheless, sociological research has documented relationships between affiliation …
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The incentive effects of Medicaid on women's labor supply
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Ethnographic Inquiry of Social Support throughout Women's Labor and Childbirth Experiences
… the phenomenon of social support throughout labor and childbirth in order to develop descriptive theory based on the behaviors of the labor and childbirth convoy. Utilizing ethnographic methodology, five women and their support convoys were observed throughout the women's labor and childbirth …
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The Effect of Free Day Care on Women's Labor Force Participation
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She Swims in Silence: Spatial Narrative, Women's labor in Contemporary Art
… investigates the collective lives of Chinese women sent to Xinjiang in state-led migration after 1949 and the erasure of their gendered narratives. Drawing on a unique family history and archival evidence, the thesis reveals how the personal identities of these female “Aid to Xinjiang” …
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Contract and contradiction: Representations of women's labor in 18th century British literature.
Contract and contradiction: Representations of women's labor in 18th century British literature.
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Gender and the Political Economy of Oil in the Niger Delta: A Feminist Critique
<p>The exploitation of women's labor is central to the international political economy. Since the 1980s, the trend has been towards a 'feminization of labor' in which women are confined to low-skilled, low-paying, and mostly part-time work. The exploitation of women's labor is not just confined to …
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Labor Force Participation of Married Women When Wages and Employment Are Risky: Theory and Estimation
… 25 years, literature on the growth of married women's labor force participation, has concluded virtually without exception that the principal source of the growth has been the concurrent growth of women's real wages. In fact, while the rapid real wage rate growth of the 1950's and 60's …
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In Her Place: Geographies of Urban Female Labor in Spanish Culture (1880--1931)
… that middle-class representations of working women result from a dominant conceptualization of class and gendered spaces in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Spain. For that reason, my thesis draws a geography of urban female labor through the analysis of the symbolic condensation of …
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Fashion, Class, and Labor: Clothing in American Women's Fiction, 1840-1913
… reinforce the connection between dress and the labor that goes into producing it. In The Deserted Wife and Britomarte, the Man-Hater Southworth's attention to clothing highlights her central concern with women's economic dependence on men and the ways industrialism exploits women's labor. In her …
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Caring Work: Opening a Space of Possibility for Exploring Transnational Feminist Solidarity Between Privileged and Marginalized Women
… economic development globally, has only pushed women further into the margin of society. Structural adjustment programs (SAPs), which impose state budget cuts on healthcare and welfare programs, particularly have kept poor women and women of color in poverty and generally, have exploited women's …
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Essays in Labor Economics
… consists of three chapters in the area of labor economics. My first chapter looks into the puzzling decline in U.S. women's labor force participation after 2000. The second chapter examines the cross-border spillover effects of increases in state minimum wages. The third chapter studies …
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The Comparative Impact of Family Policies in Sweden and Japan
What impact do family policies have on women's ability to have a family and participate in the labor market? Drawing on two cases, Japan and Sweden, I will identify different patterns of family policies' impact on fertility rates and women's participation in the labor market. Comparing the …
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The visible and invisible dimensions of gender inequality in the Global South. Three essays on time use, mental load, and depression.
… market activities within the household, leading women to engage more in income-generating activities and increasing their empowerment. However, if not paired with a more gender-equal division of roles in the household, an increased participation in the labor market risks enhancing mental load, …
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Tradwives: The Housewifization of the Girl Boss
… built on the erasure of social reproductive labor. Tracing the lineage of the “housewife” from the enclosure of the commons to imperial domesticity and from the “girl boss” to tradwife influencer culture, this project situates the tradwife within a longer history of "housewifization"—wherein …
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Essays on Intra-Household Bargaining Power of Women in India
This thesis investigates the factors that affect women's bargaining power within the household, in India. The first chapter introduces the literature on household bargaining mostly by describing how household outcomes like children's health indicators and expenditure pattern change with increase in …
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ECONOMICS AND EMPOWERMENT: CATALYSTS OR COMPETITORS?
… known locally as JEEViKA, relies on mobilizing women from impoverished, socially marginalized households into Self Help Groups. Simultaneously, activities such as micro-finance and technical assistance for agricultural livelihoods are taken up by the project and routed to the beneficiaries via …
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Comparative examination of maternity protection in EU and in Georgia, an analysis of the effectiveness of paid parental leave in promoting gender equality in the workplace
Protection of women's labor rights is one of the most important challenges in today's world. Discrimination based on gender is especially manifested in the physiological conditions of women, during pregnancy and childbirth, which is one of the grounds for violating their rights. The Universal …
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Essays in Macroeconomics
… family ties and insurance within the family for labor supply decisions, and their macroeconomic consequences (first and second chapter); second, the role of intangible capital and disclosure regulation in shaping firm financing decisions, output, and productivity (third chapter). The first …
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Three Essays on Labor Supply in China
… studying the determination and evolution of labor supply in China. The analysis especially focuses on the labor market behavior of the wage workers with urban registration (Hukou). The first chapter outlines the dissertation by briefly discussing the motivations, methods, and main findings in …
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