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Showing 1 to 20 of 56 for “"women's work"”.
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Women's Work & Other Stories
… Foster explores her kinship with the strong women who shaped the land and the character of her home state with their bare hands. Inspired by her grandma's stories of growing up the daughter of sharecroppers, Women's Work captures the rhythm of daily labor and explores the emotional landscape …
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Women's work and child nutrition in Haiti
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Nutrition and Food Science, 1981.
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The Effects of Partner Aggression on Women's Work
… between partner aggression enacted against women and victims’ work withdrawal, as well as to investigate the possible moderators of this relationship. To accomplish this, I conducted three studies. The first two studies examined the effects of partner aggression on work withdrawal (i.e., …
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Women's work and household income: evidence from Bangkok's urban fringe
This research asks whether the patterns of women's economic contribution and marginalization that previously have been identified apply to the emerging metropolitan fringe areas. I argue that women in metropolitan fringe communities are more marginalized than men in terms of type of employment, …
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Not a Joke: Women's Work and Feminist Laughter in Stand-Up Comedy
… approach to studying the cultural and political work done by Ontario-based, women-identified stand-up comics and comedy producers. I engage with and extend the emerging field of critical comedy studies by drawing on a range of disciplines to analyze the affective politics of live feminist …
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Women's Work: Stitching New Identity Narratives in Conflict and Post-Conflict Settings
… Specifically, I explore how the ways in which women narrate their experiences of violent conflict through sewing collectives can inform conflict transformation work. I engage in this exploration within the framework of narrative theory, using Kenneth Burke’s dramatistic pentad to analyze the …
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Lillian Moller Gilbreth's Extensions of Scientific Management Into Women's Work, 1924-1935
… management who applied her expertise to women working as department store employees, homemakers, and consumers. Through her efforts between 1924 and 1935, techniques of motion study and industrial psychology which were originally designed for factories were adapted for the …
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"Quality" control in China's reform era : investigating the suzhi discourse in women's work
… are particularly targeted at rural migrant women who have been migrating to Chinese cities at an increasing rate. This investigation attempts to delineate to what extent this is a story of complete domination of the hearts and minds. To what extent do the women themselves internalize these …
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Women's Work: Human Rights Journalism in Chechnya, A Case Study of Anna Politkovskaya
… topic of human rights journalism conducted by women in Chechnya. The primary research question that will be supported by this research, is whether or not Anna Politkovskaya's gender impacted her work, the reception of her work, and her overall experience as a human rights advocate in Chechnya. …
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Figuring Women's Work: The Cultural Production of Care and Labor in the Industrial U.S.
… and labor legislation, to the exclusion of work performed in the “private sphere”: domestic, service, and care labor. But by presuming that these forms of “women’s work” were outside the market and the interests of labor, scholars obscure a vast array of historical possibilities that precede …
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Women's Work, Men's Work: The Relationship Between Wife's Wage Rate and Husband's Relative Input to Household Production
The purpose of this research was to study the relationship between wife's wage rate and percentage of spouses' time contributed by the husband in total tasks and in nine different categories utilizing a modified household production model. Data were taken from the main sample of the National Survey …
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Ten Cents a Dance: Taxi Dancers, a Living Wage, and the Sexual Politics of Women's Work, 1912-1952
… 1930, taxi dancers joined thousands of unmarried working-class women who moved beyond the domestic sphere to actively engage in public, market-oriented roles that transformed urban culture. During this time, a new form of commercialized entertainment emerged to bridge women's work with the …
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“Social work is women's work, right?” Amplifying the voices of male social work students entering into a female majority occupation: applying qualitative methods.
… the dearth of men now engaged in social work training, which has been of concern to social work regulatory bodies. Statistics from the former professional body for social work in England, the General Social Care Council, suggests that 77% of registered social workers in 2010 were female …
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Codemakers
… three sections: "Topophilia," "Goodwill," and "Women's Work."</p>
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