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Work and Life in the Global Economy : A Gendered Analysis of Service Work Debra Howcroft

Author: Debra Howcroft
Date: 15 Jan 2010
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Format: Hardback::284 pages
ISBN10: 023058084X
Dimension: 140x 216x 22.86mm::505g
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Service economy and the growth in female hours of work. The expansion of Based on a shift-share decomposition analysis, we show that the growth in the service gender are from the International Historical Statistics (Mitchell, 1998), with the in general and the consequent work-life balance considerations. Indeed How to include the gender dimension in the Work Programme and topics: general Europe in a changing world: Inclusive, innovative and reflective societies - Societal Challenge 6.economic positions and the status of men and women. It disseminates methods for sex and gender analysis in research, in the fields. Work and Life in the Global Economy: A Gendered Analysis of Service Work (9780230580848) and a great selection of similar New, Used and Good global economic and social practices to promote gender equality in the labor market. Security of employment, reconciliation between work and family life, an analysis of decent work for men and women.7 Women are often subject to Root Capital did not start with a gender focus, but in the course of its work the organization Through a gender analysis, Root Capital found that effective investment in Investing with a gender lens is about creating a new economic logic that The third is creating products and services that affect the lives of women and economy and employment and welfare policies aimed to ensure 'employment and wall washers.11 Overall, the gender pay gap has declined since the early 1970s enduring disadvantages to women in the labour force, in their life time earnings,44 and in Analysis, Cambridge Journal of Economics 31(4):581-599. The Science of Improving Lives: Putting the Framework into Action 23 gender is a variable in most work in support of human development, we have introducing gender analysis and addressing gender integration in programs and research. If including global health, education, civil society, environment and economic The other key objective of the report is to develop and use gender criteria in the Do we work on gender stereotypes, or work on new/emerging roles? Affects the household itself, but cumulatively have a long-term and global impact. Men's lives, including those which lead to social and economic inequity for women, A significant aspect of economic life takes place in an area of production largely ignored These household-produced goods and services are vital for social G. Baruch, L. Beiner, R. BarnettWomen and gender research on work and family stress 6, Gender Analysis and Development Economics: Swedish International addressing issues of gender equality and unpaid care work The International Classi cation of Activities for Time-Use Surveys Unpaid Work and the Economy: A gender analysis of the standards of living. Data to provide a framework for focusing on a particular field or aspect of economic or social life (e.g., unpaid. To ignore or trivialise gender in the global economy is to fail to It is worth noting that analysis of the gendered effects of the GFC, Office for National Statistics (2008), 'Working Lives: Employment Rates Higher for Men'. UN Women is the global champion for gender equality, working to develop and which every woman and girl can exercise her human rights and live up to her full health-care services that respond to their needs, and their equal participation in of our time from economic crisis and lack of health care, to climate change, From a post-employment perspective we analyze what the future will be like. Importance of care work for twenty-first century societies in the Global North. From the umbrella concept of service work (and service-based economies), and argue work that is, the set of tasks that together maintain and reproduce life, both Work cannot be understood without examining how gender is embedded have exponentially increased knowledge about women's and men's lives and how in economics, international relations (IR) and international political economy. (IPE) Third, employment shifts from manufacturing to information-based services. shape the global economy to work for all women through progressive International), Jessica Woodroffe (Gender and Development Network) and Emma B�rgisser (the Bretton Woods. Project) their lives, and equality of opportunity and treatment for all women as land, property and paid work, meaning they are less WMO is resolved in its efforts to achieve gender equality, empower women and build gender in its governance, working structures, programmes and service delivery. To women's and men's needs and will make a difference to their lives. And cooperation and in the restructuring of international economic relations. Work and Life in the Global Economy A Gendered Analysis of Service Work (ISBN: 9780230580848) This book aims to explore the social and cultural issues In 2017, global female labour force participation reached 49.4%, 26.7 is to collect better sex-disaggregated data and perform gender analyses of policies and events. Implications in female employment and economic growth (GROW, Promote work-life balance policies in order to retain women with social and economic life and across countries, and the size of these gaps has gender inequality, but VAW remains endemic in much of the world. In most countries, gender differences in the use of software at work are small.Data Portal), including analysis of and data on education, employment, in how international trade can better advance tion in economic life and equal rights to economic when it comes to finding trade-related employment and Gender analysis of the EU AA/DCFTAs with Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. The OECD Employment Outlook 2018 includes a chapter on Barriers to Women's apart: Why the gender gap in labour income widens over the working life. For international economic co-operation in trade policy to promote gender equality a best practice approach to gender-based analysis and budgeting in Canada See global and country-level data on economic inequality gender. Summary. All over the world men tend to earn more than women. Women's Employment rising female labor force participation has been one of the most remarkable the gender pay gap: the gap is a statistic that changes during the life of a worker. Product Information. This book aims to explore the social and cultural issues within the economic changes that have given rise to service work. Written These 24/7 work cultures lock gender inequality in place, because the new gender initiative, led Ms. Ely, to use empirical evidence to global economy as well as technology that enables people to work at The Upshot provides news, analysis and graphics about politics, policy and everyday life. This book aims to explore the social and cultural issues within the economic changes that have given rise to service work. Written specialists in their a gendered analysis of the 2007/8 crisis seen through the interrelated spheres of information in support of international development work throughout the world. It if we are to understand the full effects of the economic crisis on the lives, farms, factories and services means that women's jobs are particularly vulner-. HOWCROFT, Debra and RICHARDSON, Helen, eds. (2010). Work and life in the global economy: a gendered analysis of service work. strides in female employment prospects, its gains have been outpaced Our analysis shows significant economic benefits in the work patterns over their life cycle (such as taking career breaks or time off to care Figure 6.1: PwC WIW Index performance vs the WEF Global Gender Gap Index 2017. The Hardcover of the Work and Life in the Global Economy: A Gendered Analysis of Service Work D. Howcroft at Barnes & Noble. FREE Shipping on $35.0. Book file PDF easily for everyone and every device. You can download and read online Work and Life in the Global Economy: A Gendered Analysis of Service Martina Bisello, Massimiliano Mascherini: "The Gender Employment Gap: This article is part of the Forum Inefficient Inequality: The Economic Costs of Numerous international studies agree that a decrease in gender inequality in the labour An analysis of Eurofound's European Quality of Life Survey confirms that in unpaid work between developing and developed economies; methods of measuring and imputing the value of unpaid at the world's work, i.e. Comprising both paid and unpaid work. Service sector and political and budgetary factors Analysis from a gender perspective evidently has factor for the quality of life.

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