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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"household work"”.
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Husbands' time use in Virginia families, 1978 and 1986
… increases in employment hours and decreases in household work time, nonwork (leisure) time, and personal maintenance time. Within the category use were physical husbands of household work, significant decreases in time found in both weekend and weekday samples in care of other family members. On …
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Sons, daughters, and arab-american family dynamics: does a child's gender matter?
… parental involvement with children, allocating household work to children, and marital quality.</p> <p>A cross-sectional quantitative research design was employed, using a convenient sample (N=200) of Arab-American parents in families who have at least two children under 18 years old at home and …
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The invisible weight of cognitive labor
Cognitive labor is the mental work it takes to run a home. This type of labor, separate from physical tasks, is a form of domestic labor that often goes unnoticed, it is often invisible. This invisible mechanism that shapes our home life has historically been excluded from research on topics …
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Impact of Credit and Extension on Women Participants in the Small Farmers Development Program: A Gendered Case Study in Lombok, Indonesia
… control over their bodies; (d) participation in household work through allocation of labor in the household; (e) provision of food variety; and (f) higher aspiration of children's education including girls'.
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The relationship of age span between children and time use in two- parent, two-child families
… the individual activities that comprised household work time, it was found that age of the younger child, age of the older child, and age span, the interaction between the ages of the children, were significantly related to and were responsible for 49% of the variation in wives’ and nearly …
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Why EU Work-Family Reconciliation Policies Fail in Italy: A Feminist Legal Analysis
… and Italian women continue to do twice as much household work as Italian men. Parents, especially women, struggle to find a balance between professional work and their family lives in a society that encourages the traditional gendered roles of the housewife and the breadwinner. The following …
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The Educational Dimensions of Filipina Migrant Workers’ Activist Identities
… are 10.4 million Filipino/a migrant workers worldwide, with the large majority of Filipina migrants working in traditional gendered labor such as domestic work, care giving, nursing, teaching, and factory work (Ruiz, 2013). Because of the private nature of household work, Filipina …
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Essays on international economics and labor markets
… that low-skilled immigration has increased hours worked by women with a graduate degree, especially those with a professional degree or a PhD and those with children. Our estimates suggest that the low-skilled immigration flow of the 1990s increased by 7 and 33 minutes a week the average time of …
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The influence of parents social economic status on students dropouts in community secondary schools: A case of Kahama district
… selling groundnuts, potatoes around bus stand, household work, small mining activities at Mwabomba, domestic servant and manual work such as cultivation during rain seasons and fetching water. Based on the findings, the recommendations of the study are that the government and community members …
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Identity, women managers and social change: Comparing Singapore and Britain
… career families have increasingly contracted out household work. Coupled with a consumer led society these changes have weakened the family. Furthermore, women managers, like their male counterparts have increasingly been constructed as individualised unencumbered workers. Despite these wider …
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Gamification for a healthier lifestyle – user adherence
… engage in small activities, for example, doing household work, walking and many others. Some physical activity gamification applications focus on elements such as rewards, leaderboards and competition, while very few investigate various motivational elements using motivational techniques. The …
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Three Essays on Nepalese Development: Technology Adoption, Agricultural Risk and the Effects of Remittances on Recipient Households
… and the effects of remittances on recipient households combined with the motivation of migration decisions in low-income countries such as Nepal under the theories of incomplete and imperfect markets. This dissertation contains three substantive essays applying a number of econometric models …
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How Soviet Russia Liberated Women: The Soviet Model in Clara Zetkin's Periodical 'Die Kommunistische Fraueninternationale'
… be fully emancipated. Women needed freedom from household work and increased training and support to aid them as workers, and Zetkin's writings centered on these principles. The Bolshevik Revolution proved to Zetkin that communism rescued women from the oppression of capitalism. The Soviet model …
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Psychosocial work conditions - cardiovascular disease, perceptions and reactive behavior
… of (1) associations between adverse psychosocial work conditions and less explored cardiovascular outcomes, and (2) workers’ perceptions and reactive behaviour when exposed to such conditions. Psychosocial job environment was evaluated with the job demand-control and effort-reward imbalance …
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Relationship between urinary levels of organophosphate metabolites and pesticide exposures among rural school boys of the Western Cape
… increased DAP levels were found with increased household income, member of household work with pesticides, living on a farm, drinking water from an open water source and eating crops from the vineyard and or garden. Conclusion: The study found younger age and living in and around an apple and …
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Konsten att lyckas som par : Populärterapeutiska berättelser, individualisering och kön
… autonomous and responsible for doing “couple work”, but also dependent on the experts’ definition of ideals of “the good couple” as well as on guidelines for ways to get there. As a result, the popular therapeutic narrative (contrary to the argument of theories of late modernity) ends up …