Gender-based Division Of Labor Research Articles

Gender as a Factor in the Uptake and Use of ICTs on Family Farms in Southern Queensland, Australia

It is often suggested that farming womens increased access to technology particularly information and communication technologies (ICTs) will increase their power on the farm and in related agribusiness activities. A study of the use of ICTs on family cotton farms in southern Queensland Australia sought to discover whether tools such as cellular phones. CB radios computers fax machines and the telephone had gendered patterns of usage. An analysis of these patterns of usage applying a well-known theory of the social construction of gender and technology was carried out in the context of family cotton farms in Southern Queensland Australia. The focus of the analysis was on the gender-based division of labor and on the power relations embodied in the usage of the technologies. The study found that access to such technologies did not result in appreciable changes in womens power nor in changes to the established gender-based division of labor. It is therefore highly unlikely that Internet-based ICTs will deliver on their promises of womens empowerment particularly in family farm contexts. (authors)

Gender as a Factor in the Uptake and Use of ICTs on Family Farms in Southern Queensland, Australia

It is often suggested that farming women ’s increased access to technology, particularly information and communication technologies (ICTs), will increase their power on the farm and in related agribusiness activities. A study of the use of ICTs on family cotton farms in southern Queensland, Australia, sought to discover whether tools such as cellular phones, CB radios, computers, fax machines, and the telephone had gendered patterns of usage. An analysis of these patterns of usage, applying a well-known theory of the social construction of gender and technology, was carried out in the context of family cotton farms in Southern Queensland, Australia. The focus of the analysis was on the gender-based division of labor and on the power relations embodied in the usage of the technologies. The study found that access to such technologies did not result in appreciable changes in women ’s power, nor in changes to the established gender-based division of labor. It is, therefore, highly unlikely that Internet-based ICTs will deliver on their promises of women ’s empowerment, particularly in family farm contexts.

Making Women Visible: Gender Spaces and ICT Work in the Philippines

Studies of technology in developing countries have addressed the conundrum of 'invisible women' by focusing either on women-dominated assembly work or on women as users. This article looks at the social shaping of technology and tries to render the women in certain arenas of information technology (IT) visible. Underlying the emergence of this group of women IT workers are 'user-friendly technologies,' horizontal learning structures, and the hybridity of some arenas of IT. After an examination of some of these issues, the article goes on to examine the creation of 'female spaces' in IT through an analysis of the gendered social distribution of knowledge, and the compensation structures and social constructs that accompany and affect the changes in the gender division of labor. The article shows that within the international division of labor and the gender-based division of labor, IT in the Philippines still offers scope for and supports the creation of 'female spaces'.

Making Women Visible: Gender Spaces and ICT Work in the Philippines

Studies of technology in developing countries have addressed the conundrum of ’invisible women’ by focusing either on women-dominated assembly work or on women as users. This article looks at the social shaping of technology and tries to render the women in certain arenas of information technology (IT) visible. Underlying the emergence of this group of women IT workers are ’user-friendly technologies,’ horizontal learning structures, and the hybridity of some arenas of IT. After an examination of some of these issues, the article goes on to examine the creation of ’female spaces’ in IT through an analysis of the gendered social distribution of knowledge, and the compensation structures and social constructs that accompany and affect the changes in the gender division of labor. The article shows that within the international division of labor and the gender-based division of labor, IT in the Philippines still offers scope for and supports the creation of ’female spaces’.

Municipal middle managers: psychosocial work environment in a gender-based division of labor

The purpose of the reported study was to explore how 245 municipal middle managers perceived their psychosocial and physical work environments, and to examine psychosomatic reactions and job satisfaction in departments engaged in different types of activity, also to compare male and female managers in these respects. The way in which psychosomatic reactions and job satisfaction were related to the psychosocial and physical work environments was also investigated. The results indicated a difference between departments depending on the type of activity. Departments concerned with care and education, i.e. care of the elderly, child care and schools showed a tendency to lower values for psychosocial work environment factors and more psychosomatic reactions than the departments geared more towards maintenance and production, i.e. street maintenance, the power plant department and the recreation office. In the departments concerned with children female managers were in a majority. In the street maintenance department, the recreation office and the power plant department, male managers predominated. Compared to the men, the women had a higher level of education, lower salaries, more reactions of a psychosomatic nature, lower job satisfaction and a less satisfying psychosocial work environment. The only department with an equal number of male and female managers was the schools department. Here there were no differences between men and women in the factors studied. Two partial correlations were computed in order to separate the importance of type of activity and sex to the work environment factors and outcome variables. This indicated that the type of activity was more important than biological sex. The gendering of work activities is therefore also discussed and further investigations are suggested.

Gender differences in parenting a child with cancer.

This study of 124 parents of children diagnosed with cancer investigates parents' perceptions of their role in the illness situation. The study found that mothers and fathers differ in their experience of and response to parenting a child with cancer. These differences appear to reflect traditional parenting roles characterized by a gender-based division of labor. Sex-role socialization theory is discussed as an explanatory model of the parenting experience. Practice recommendations are offered to medical social workers and other health care professionals concerned about the long term psychosocial adjustment of parents with chronically ill children.

“WORSE THAN MEN”

Although women's movements have received considerable scholarly attention, the role of women in movements that are not overtly gender based has not. Gender, however, plays a significant role in generic movements (i.e., movements seeking general benefits that are not necessarily restricted to one sex). Over a 20-year period, an urban squatter settlement in Brazil experienced five collective campaigns, not one of which was gender conscious, but all of which were shaped by gender. In these collective campaigns, everything from participation to strategies to outcomes was grounded in the gender-based division of labor in the community.

Mechanisation and the gender-based division of labour in the US cigar industry

Journal Article Mechanisation and the gender-based division of labour in the US cigar industry Get access Mark J. Prus Mark J. Prus ⋆Potsdam College, State University of New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Cambridge Journal of Economics, Volume 14, Issue 1, March 1990, Pages 63–79, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.cje.a035119 Published: 01 March 1990 Article history Received: 14 September 1987 Accepted: 08 July 1988 Published: 01 March 1990