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Jan
15
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Posted (admin) on 15-01-2008
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Women often report that work at home jobs reduces employmentfamily stress. But men also indicate this. And some men also report that work at home jobs helps them fulfill child care or other household duties or goals. Some women see their work at home jobs income as secondary family income whereas men often see their work at home jobs income as the primary family income, but not universally. For some households the income from women's work at home jobs is the primary income. For some men [...]
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Jan
12
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Posted (admin) on 12-01-2008
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Power and control of space and activities are often ascribed or achieved attributes of men. Women, and children, are often low or unpaid participants with limited power and control in these family businesses or other employment activities in the at home jobs. In rural China since the mid 1980s, household-run private businesses as well as other forms of economic enterprises have emerged . Women participate in and benefit directly and indirectly from these opportunities, especially those at [...]
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Jan
10
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Posted (admin) on 10-01-2008
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In this blog work at home jobs employment is defined as the work done for income in one's work at home jobs, on one's premises, or emanating from the work at home jobs /premises, with the worker's having no office or consistent workspace elsewhere. A home-worker might be a plumber who schedules appointments from the home phone and stores tools and supplies in the garage, or a work at home jobs knitter who seldom leaves the house. A home-worker could be a Tupperware salesperson, a person [...]
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Jan
07
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Posted (admin) on 07-01-2008
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The role gender might play in why home based jobs is undertaken in specific occupations in specific regions and the exact consequences of home based jobs for both the shorter and longer terms are not clearly known. Critics have argued that women could be choosing this option because of social notions about appropriate activities for women. In some cases the situation can be framed not as women's freely choosing home based jobs so much as their being constrained and limited in their [...]
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Jan
04
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Posted (admin) on 04-01-2008
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Many scholars have suggested or studied the idea that online jobs is an opportune way of combining activities for pay or profit with family and household production activities, including activities such as nurturing of spouse or child, child or other dependent care, cooking, and household management. It also includes propinquous production activities with outcomes that are important for the development of family members and/or for the social and spiritual vitality of families and [...]
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Jan
02
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Posted (admin) on 02-01-2008
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What are some of the reasons that explain why people choose stay at home jobs? In some cases it could be due to the lack of other employment opportunities. This can especially be so in rural areas, or where social customs and norms constrain or encourage women to focus on stay at home jobs and family as their primary role. In such cases, stay at home jobs for pay or profit is an acceptable alternative to gainful employment outside the home. For example, in Iran some women do stay at home [...]
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Jan
01
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Posted (admin) on 01-01-2008
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The authors in the blog posts that follow present the results of several studies, showing how stay at home jobs, its causes, context, and consequences, is often gender-linked. A variety of theoretical approaches are described and applied to the study of gender and stay at home jobs. The empirical studies focus on the United States and Canada; one article is a review of literature with a more global perspective. Each empirical study presents a well-developed literature review that sets the [...]
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Jan
01
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Posted (admin) on 01-01-2008
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Online jobs can be found worldwide. In some regions it is institutionalized and common, in others more novel. Some regions have experienced recent growth in this employment pattern, for a variety of not yet fully explained reasons. This type of work arrangement, including the actual work undertaken for pay or profit, either as wage laborer or business owner, as well as factors such as amount of earnings and influences on other aspects of one's or one's family's life, appear to be tied to [...]
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Dec
30
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Posted (admin) on 30-12-2007
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The home jobs do raise another important question. Why do men and women seem to have different types of home jobs? It appears that although gender is not necessarily linked to being self-employed or owning one's own business, the types of businesses and the income earned do vary by gender. Thus certain occupations and job types are en-gendered. As engendering occurs, it erects barriers to the type of employment options that are potentially available to all people. Qualitative [...]
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Dec
29
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Posted (admin) on 29-12-2007
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Scholars interested in the role of women in relation to development have shown the extent to which women contribute in a variety of paid and unpaid ways to social development of nations. This scholarship also enlightens scholars and other professionals as to how such contributions are related to conceptions of gender and contribute to gender construction. It includes income earning activities that are often invisible, uncounted, and undocumented because they take place in the informal [...]
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