Rural Women At Work

Author : Ruth B. Dixon-Mueller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135994143

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Rural Women at Work by Ruth B. Dixon-Mueller Pdf

First Published in 2011. This study is Volume I of the Global Environment and Development 7 volume set. One of the most promising areas identified in the initial study was female labor-force participation. If good jobs at decent wages were offered to women, particularly those living in rural areas, would such employment have an effect on family size? Would their jobs compete for the women's time as mothers and housewives, offer them an alternative route to acquiring status and a sense of purpose, and perhaps also provide the women with an independent source of income which would enable them to achieve more control over their lives? But, as the original volume makes clear, the situation is more complicated than it first appears to be.

Author : Ruth Dixon-Mueller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Producer cooperatives
ISBN : 1617260002

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Rural Women at Work by Ruth Dixon-Mueller Pdf

Author : Madhura Swaminathan
Publisher : Tulika Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 819392696X

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Women in Rural Production Systems by Madhura Swaminathan Pdf

The book is a compilation of papers examining women's role in rural production systems in India. The book is divided into six sections that explore conceptual, theoretical, and methodological issues; primary and secondary data; and historical perspectives.

Author : Arianne M. Gaetano
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789888208531

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Out to Work by Arianne M. Gaetano Pdf

Out to Work is a fresh, engaging account of the lives of a group of rural Chinese women who, while still in their teens, moved from villages to Beijing to take up work as maids, office cleaners, hotel chambermaids, and schoolteachers. By pursuing new opportunities afforded by migration and strategically applying accumulated knowledge and resources, these women were able to forge better lives for themselves and their families. But as this book also makes clear, broader social inequalities persist to make these women's futures precarious. "This book's unique approach offers readers an intimate look at the impact of labor migration on young women over a ten-year period. We follow Gaetano's informants as they adapt to Beijing, visit their home villages, and move on to new jobs and postmarital homes. Gaetano does an excellent job showing how these young female migrants navigate constraints and challenges, enhancing their own and their family's social and economic status."—Hong Zhang, Colby College "This fresh, highly readable book demonstrates vividly how gender norms and rural-urban inequalities not only shaped women's identities and aspirations but also had palpable physical and material consequences for them. Yet despite the discrimination and hardship they experienced, they were able to build better lives for themselves. Gaetano's book convincingly shows that labor migration has increased many rural women's possibilities for exercising agency."—Rachel Murphy, University of Oxford

Author : Nicola Verdon
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0851159060

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Rural Women Workers in Nineteenth-century England by Nicola Verdon Pdf

The range of women's work and its contribution to the family economy studied here for the first time. Despite the growth of women's history and rural social history in the past thirty years, the work performed by women who lived in the nineteenth-century English countryside is still an under-researched issue. Verdon directly addresses this gap in the historiography, placing the rural female labourer centre stage for the first time. The involvement of women in the rural labour market as farm servants, as day labourers in agriculture, and as domestic workers, are all examined using a wide range of printed and unpublished sources from across England. The roles village women performed in the informal rural economy (household labour, gathering resources and exploiting systems of barterand exchange) are also assessed. Changes in women's economic opportunities are explored, alongside the implications of region, age, marital status, number of children in the family and local custom; women's economic contribution to the rural labouring household is established as a critical part of family subsistence, despite criticism of such work and the rise in male wages after 1850. NICOLA VERDON is a Research Fellow in the Rural History Centre, University of Reading.

Author : Punam Kumari
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Rural women
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025740270

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Rural Women at Work by Punam Kumari Pdf

Author : Tamara Jacka
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1997-02-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521599288

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Women's Work in Rural China by Tamara Jacka Pdf

Based on interviews with rural Chinese women, officials and social scientists, and on Chinese newspapers, journals and academic reports. Analyses the situation of women of Han nationality with rural household registration, most of whom worked in townships and villages, but some of whom worked in cities. Delineates patterns in gender divisions of labour in the context of economic reform.

Author : V. K. Ramachandran,Madhura Swaminathan
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 184277316X

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Agrarian Studies by V. K. Ramachandran,Madhura Swaminathan Pdf

The Development and Planning Department of the Government of West Bengal held an international conference in Kolkata in 2002, which provided a forum for debate and discussion on new research in the field of agrarian relations in less-developed countries. The papers brought together in this volume were first presented at this conference, and cover a wide range of theoretical issues and empirical experiences. Some address land reform, and others focus on liberalized trade and mobile financial flows. Country case studies concerned with changes in agrarian relations include Mexico, Chile, Brazil, Cuba, China, and Bangladesh; others on South Africa, the Philippines, and sub-Saharan Africa identify land reforms in the contemporary period.

Author : Gail Hershatter
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520950344

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The Gender of Memory by Gail Hershatter Pdf

What can we learn about the Chinese revolution by placing a doubly marginalized group—rural women—at the center of the inquiry? In this book, Gail Hershatter explores changes in the lives of seventy-two elderly women in rural Shaanxi province during the revolutionary decades of the 1950s and 1960s. Interweaving these women’s life histories with insightful analysis, Hershatter shows how Party-state policy became local and personal, and how it affected women’s agricultural work, domestic routines, activism, marriage, childbirth, and parenting—even their notions of virtue and respectability. The women narrate their pasts from the vantage point of the present and highlight their enduring virtues, important achievements, and most deeply harbored grievances. In showing what memories can tell us about gender as an axis of power, difference, and collectivity in 1950s rural China and the present, Hershatter powerfully examines the nature of socialism and how gender figured in its creation.

Author : Carolyn E Sachs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429973437

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Gendered Fields by Carolyn E Sachs Pdf

Author : Beverly Leipert,Belinda Leach,Wilfreda Thurston
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-17
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781442662520

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Rural Women's Health by Beverly Leipert,Belinda Leach,Wilfreda Thurston Pdf

The well-being of rural communities affects the well-being of those who reside in towns and cities because of rural-urban connections through food, drinking water, infectious disease, extreme environmental events, recreation, and for many, retirement residence. In rural areas themselves, women play a critical role in the health of their families and communities, yet women’s health is often marginalized or ignored. There have been limited studies to date about rural women and health in Canada. Filling an important gap in scholarship, this collection identifies priority issues that must be addressed to ensure these women’s well-being and offers innovative theoretical and methodological ideas for improvement. Rural Women’s Health integrates perspectives from rural practitioners, residents, and scholars in a variety of fields, including nursing, sociology, anthropology, and geography, to tackle issues relevant to diverse settings across the country. As such, it presents a national perspective on the nature of women’s health while respecting internal and regional diversity, as well as viewpoints from international scholarship.

Author : Martha Fetherolf Loutfi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : PSU:000014080401

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Rural Women by Martha Fetherolf Loutfi Pdf

Outlines the basic reasons for women's growing inequality and dependence especially in rural areas, and the concomitant food shortages and poverty in many developing countries. This book should be of interest to all those concerned with women's development.

Author : Diane J. F. Martz
Publisher : Condition féminine Canada
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Agricultural processing industry workers
ISBN : 0662492684

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Hidden Actors, Muted Voices by Diane J. F. Martz Pdf

"The purpose of the research is to understand the nature, extent and conditions of women's employment in the forestry and agri-food industries in Saskatchewan. Governments at all levels in Canada promote the further processing of resources as a strategy in rural development; increasingly, rural women are taking up these opportunities as they seek to maintain their families in rural Canada where good-paying jobs for women are often scarce. While women do have an important role in the renewable resource sector, their contribution has largely been absent from any public discussion. The ultimate goal is to document the opportunities and experiences rural women have in these industries. Particular issues include safe and healthy (socially, psychologically and physically) workplaces, job (re)training and upgrading, and other social services that will allow women to engage in paid employment. Women working in the agri-food and forestry industries, as well as their employers, participated in the study providing information in these various areas. The goal is to provide recommendations to improve their work environments through programs, such as sensitivity training and restructuring of work days to meet women's needs."--Unedited text from document.

Author : Henry Buller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781351142861

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Women in the European Countryside by Henry Buller Pdf

Much of the literature published so far on gender relations in rural areas has either focused on comparisons of the position of men and women, or explored the position of women given prevailing structural forces and behavioural 'norms' that restrict the autonomy of women as human agents. This groundbreaking book broadens the debate by developing our understanding of how societal processes produce and sustain gender divisions, particularly in rural areas, highlighting aspects of rural women's lives previously invisible in the literature. Illustrated by case studies from France, Germany, Greece, Norway and Sweden, the book examines the critical issues of education and training, entrepreneurship, leadership, limited work and service opportunities, social mobility, and work experiences. In doing so, the contributors provide a fascinating comparative study of both national-regional and broader European realities.

Author : Karen Sayer
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Women in agriculture
ISBN : 0719041422

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Women of the Fields by Karen Sayer Pdf

Item "describes the work that women did in agriculture, as seen in the parliamentary reports of 1843, 1967 [sic., 1867] and the 1890s, and the meanings given to that work in the local and national press, farming advice books, autobiographies and the art and literature of the period" -- back cover.