Much of sex work-related health programming has focused on HIV/STI prevention. Although important, this singular focus may reinforce harmful notions that sex workers are vectors of disease, thus undercutting more holistic support for overall occupational health and human rights. In reality, sex worker...
World-wide regular full-timewage employment has given way to a broad range of irregular forms oflabour that are not covered by standard labour legislation, such asoutsourcing, contract labour, home work, part-time work and self-employment in the informal sector. The rise of these jobs has ...
The perception of certain work as feminine has had a significant impact on women, both at home and in the workplace. Often feminine jobs regulate women to positions where they earn less money and are less likely to become management than their male counterparts. In addition, at home women ar...
Data from a 1989 survey of over 700 managers of a large Canadian corporation were analyzed to examine the characteristics of jobs held by career-family and career-primary men and women. The human resource and computer services departments fit many characteristics of "mommy tracks" for women and ...
(while ac-knowledging these) and instead point to the need to create jobs that not onlyattract women to the labour force but retain them (Deshpande and Kabeer2019; Deshpande and Singh 2021). Another issue is that of counting—oraccounting for—women’s work, which is often invisible or is...
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Chapter 3 focuses on women and work--nontraditional careers, home-based employment, self-employment, public life, voluntary work, and where the jobs will... H Johnson - 《Womens Studies International Forum》 被引量: 34发表: 1995年 Career Trajectories for Women After Childbirth: Job Quality and...
Many of the world’s women are unable to earn a living and support a family in equal and dignified conditions. Women suffer from segregation in low-paying and low-status jobs, often with long working hours. Women workers are overrepresented in the informal sector and they rarely hold upper ...
Womens work and social support for child care in the Third World. This chapter aims to set out what is known about the means used for child care by working women in developing countries with regard to their household circ... JL Jacobsen,J Salas - 《Women Work & Child Welfare in the Thi...
from 12 to 40. Hospitality workplaces, such as hotels, bars, restaurants, fast-food establishments, cafeterias, and taverns, were chosen as the setting for this research. Hospitality jobs are customer service positions in hotels, restaurants, events, and other tourism industry areas. The ...