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Work Intensity, Gender and Well-being
Jackson, Cecile Palmer-Jones, Richard
Jackson, Cecile
Palmer-Jones, Richard
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"Employment is central to current understandings of poverty and well-being, as well as to prescriptions for poverty reduction. Labour-intensive growth, and greater labour force participation by women, are major policy recommendations in the New Poverty Agenda of the 1990s. They are also prominent elements in the discourse on Women in Development. But gender analysts paint a complex picture of women and work. They note that women often face social and ideological constraints when seeking, obtaining and performing work outside households, with responsibilities for child bearing and rearing generating particular problems. And the objective of increasing female employment can in the context of long working days and added household duties contribute to what has been termed time famine , with negative effects on women s health and well-being. Finally, it is important to analyse the specific content and character of work and especially its physical arduousness."(pg ii)
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1998-10
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