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Posted (admin) on 28-12-2007
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As gender is contested and negotiated in a specific locale, gender expectations can and do change. home based jobs might be one of those settings in which what it means to "do gender" can be different from that in other settings. Although families are embedded in societies and reproduce culture more locally, families are also the settings in which people confront daily the notions each member has of what is proper behavior. Maybe male home based jobs are more likely to define [...]
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28
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Posted (admin) on 28-12-2007
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Another point that must be considered is that each study and its findings in this blog are bound by a particular cultural context--modern and industrialized societies with an emphasis on individualism and achievement--and each context studied here has some sense of gender equality. It is important to consider what the gender effects discovered mean within a particular society and how these findings fit into larger considerations of jobs at home as a global phenomenon. Whereas jobs at home [...]
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28
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Posted (admin) on 28-12-2007
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An empirical question is whether this type of employment and the motivations for choosing to work from home jobs vary in some patterned way by gender. That is, do women and men systematically engage in different types of work from home jobs and for different reasons? If so, then gender and the way it shapes one's life would appear to be important conceptual tools for gaining better insight into work from home jobs as a social phenomenon. As home-worker, do men and women manage their time [...]
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Dec
28
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Posted (admin) on 28-12-2007
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Work at home jobs take place in what is often considered family space. When employment activities take place in one's dwelling, it brings paid work into the space where duty, need, and love motivate labor. work at home jobs helps to construct gender at the household level. Gender and its influence on family and household activities are rooted in the more general conceptions of gender within larger sociohistorical settings. The historically structured conceptions of gender within a [...]
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28
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Posted (admin) on 28-12-2007
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When profits fall and cheaper labor can be found elsewhere, these corporations move on, leaving disorganization and economic destruction in their wake. Studies have shown the connections among subcontracting chains, jobs at home, export increase, and rising profits for corporations. jobs at home -workers worldwide and Third World women in particular have been called upon because of their cheap labor. To the extent that homes in any country can and "should" be used for employment [...]
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Dec
26
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Posted (admin) on 26-12-2007
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How does feminist theorizing shape the consideration of work from home jobs? As Osmond and Thorne determined: Feminist scholarship on the historical development of the public-private dichotomy offers scholars a wealth of theorizing and research on the complex interrelationships between family and economy. In the process, feminists redefine social scientists' concepts both of work (traditionally defined in terms of men's occupations and organizations) and of family (traditionally defined [...]
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Dec
23
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Posted (admin) on 23-12-2007
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This is a blog about men and women engaged in online jobs employment for pay or profit. The focus is on gender and its influence on the type of work individuals do as well as their work processes and outcomes. Because of the spatial link between these workers and their families' living activities, a study of online jobs provides a unique opportunity to study paid-work and family interaction with a special emphasis on gender differences and similarities. Traditionally, women dominated the [...]
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Dec
21
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Posted (admin) on 21-12-2007
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One limitation of the work presented here is the lack of distinction between home-workers who have jobs from home and those who work from their home (with no other office or consistent work site). Differences between the two groups of home-workers obscure significant gender influences on either group. First, it is important to ascertain whether gender plays a role in who works at home or from home, and the types of home that people do in either situation. In societies where women are [...]
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20
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Posted (admin) on 20-12-2007
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There is a caution however--the extend to which there is gender inequality in one culture when considered from the viewpoint of a different culture can be hegemonic. What some outsiders perceive as serious gender inequity might be acceptable to those people directly involved. In other cases, gender inequity cries out for policy intervention to protect rights and provide economic subsistence. In all situations it is advisable that serious attention be given to the social construction of [...]
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Dec
17
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Posted (admin) on 17-12-2007
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Worldwide, employers have used this gender ideology to their advantage. Women are paid less because women belong in the home jobs. As women accept low pay for doing home jobs, the economic structure as well as the gender ideology that rewards men with higher pay are perpetuated. In essence, women working in their homes for pay help to create and reinforce barriers that women often face when seeking out-of-the home jobs. On the other hand, defining home jobs as women's work closes [...]
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