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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Women’s employment"”.
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Barriers to women’s employment and the extent of gender inequality in the labour market in Turkey
This thesis investigates gender inequalities in employment outcomes in Turkey in the context of low employment rates of women, occupational gender segregation and gender wage differentials. The first empirical chapter of the thesis sheds light on the role of traditional or conservative social norms …
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How the COVID-19 pandemic has influenced women’s employment and their health: an inquiry into their lived experiences
The COVID-19 pandemic accentuated employment vulnerabilities among women working in the Canadian services sector. Research shows how poverty, precarious employment, and crisis are gendered and racialized. Few studies, however, critically explore women’s employment in Canada and how neoliberalism …
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Bargaining Power, Gender Norms, and Intimate Partner Violence: An Examination of Latin American Countries
… dissertation explores the relationship between women’s employment, bargaining power, gender norms, and intimate partner violence (IPV) in Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, and Peru. It is structured around three empirical papers using data from the Demographic and Health Survey, which …
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Gender inequality and its impact on economic growth: a study of the relationship between gender inequality in employment, education and growth in South Africa
… explores the impact that gender equality in employment and education in South Africa has on the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth on a quarterly basis from 2008 – 2017. The hypothesis is that gender equality in employment and education will impact economic growth in South Africa …
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Great Expectations: Women's Help Wanted Ads In Kansas City, 1920-1936
The question of the nature of women’s paid work has been a frequent point of historical inquiry. Using a source previously only tapped quantitatively, this paper seeks to expand our understanding of how women’s employment was advertised for and viewed during the 1920s and 30s in the United States …
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Work-Family Reconciliation Policies Reexamined: Good or Bad for Gender and Class Inequality in Employment across Twenty-Four High-Income Countries?
… well-developed leave and ECEC support women’s employment but adversely affect women’s work intensity, earnings, and occupational attainment, by class. To extend the literature, the relationship between the two policies and class inequality in employment between low- and highly educated …
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Changing patterns of female employment in rural England, c. 1790-1890
… economic history: the work of rural labouring women in nineteenth-century England. The subject is approached firstly through a thorough investigation of a variety of contemporary printed sources: parliamentary papers, census figures, journal articles, books and pamphlet literature. The general …
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Marriage, motherhood, childcare arrangements and work: female labor force participation and informal employment under Chinese economic reform
… comprehensive study of the ways in which Chinese women seek to balance family and work obligations during the market transition from 1991 to 2011. I study family obligations arise from marriage, motherhood, and childcare arrangements along Chinese women’s life course, and how they impact on …
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Three Essays in Development Economics
… respectively, spousal violence and female employment in Colombia, inequality of opportunity in adult health in Colombia, and welfare of rural Peruvian households. The evidence presented in the first essay, ”Intimate Partner Violence and Women’s Employment: Evidence from Colombia,” suggests …
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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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Women Employment and Health
… as set out in the Introduction, is to explore women’s specific difficulties regarding labour market outcomes in the first decade of the 21st century, related to their dual role as mothers and labour force participants. The overarching context of the thesis is a contemporary profile of the …
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Staying in the Workforce with Fibromyalgia
… for people with this illness, affecting mostly women. Their home lives may also impact their ability to remain employed, in conjunction with their impairments. Yet, despite varying degrees of pain, fatigue, and other health issues, 44% of Canadians with fibromyalgia remain in the workforce. How …
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Women naval dockyard workers in two 19th century dockyard towns: Chatham and Plymouth
The study focuses on various aspects of the employment of women in the Royal Naval Dockyards of Chatham and Plymouth in the nineteenth century in order to enlarge the current body of knowledge about the lives of women workers. Through an examination of the history of the two towns and the impact of …
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A női munkavállalás hatása a napi időfelhasználásra = The effect of female employment on time use
… the most important dependencies between women’s employment and daily time use within the 1999-2000 and 2009-2010 time periods. Through the analysis of time use we can capture social-economic changes, which evolve over a longer period of time therefore their trends can be formulated within …
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'Not just a housewife': Gender, Class, and Labour in the New Economy of Urban India
… ethnographic study of young lower middle class women’s engagement in the new service economy in Delhi, India. Following the economic restructuring of the 1990s, the emergence of a ‘New Middle Class’ in urban India has been widely and popularly noted. The newness of this middle class, scholars …
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Women as industrial labour: an enquiry into economic and social consequences of growth of garments manufacturing in Bangladesh
… Bangladesh. The industry is the first to employ women in large numbers in the formal manufacturing sector. Using information collected by the author from readymade garments firms, women workers and a group of non-working women, this thesis investigates the factors behind women’s labour market …
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Women and Paid Work in Industrial Britain, c.1945 - c.1971
This thesis is a study of working-class women and their paid employment between the temporal limits c.1945 and c.1971. Centralising women’s experiences, three distinct methodologies – statistical analysis, archival research, and oral history – discretely delivered, explore changing patterns of …
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Three Essays on the Impact of Education on the Women's Employment and Empowerment in South Korea
… essays, explores the impact of education for women’s employment and empowerment. As a context, this thesis has chosen South Korea as a newly industrialized but a non-Western originating economy during the mid-late twentieth century. All three essays adopt different theoretical frameworks and …
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Exploring maternal employment in post-socialist countries: understanding the implications of childcare policies
Access to paid employment has conspicuous economic, political, cultural and social implications, for both personal autonomy and gender equality. Eight most advanced postsocialist countries that entered the European Union in 2004 have boasted comparatively high full-time employment rates for women …
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The Role of Gender in Post-Disaster Recovery and Disaster Risk Governance in Nepal: Examining Links Between Women, Institutions and Capacity-Building
… acknowledged within disaster scholarship that women are more vulnerable to disasters than men, there is a dearth of literature explicitly discussing the ways in which governmental and non-governmental institutions have supported, strengthened and built the capabilities of Nepali women since the …
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