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IN WOMEN'S EMPLOYMENT UNDER CONDITIONS OF RAPID URBANIZATION
NGO THI KIM DUNG
Research Fellow, Center of Sociology and Development, Institute of Social Sciences in
Hochiminh City.
It is no accident that sociologists in Vietnam have during the past decade devoted
considerable attention to gender issues, in particular in the role of women in urban and
rural areas due to the impact of changes in macro policies (1).
Although the rate of urbanization in Vietnam is not yet high (only 20%) a new round of
urbanization is starting. The social consequences of this process are creating promising
opportunities for the development of women. At the same time, they are posing stern
challenges that are unlikely to be overcome rapidly.
In this article we wish to deal with opportunities and challenges to women in the suburbs
of Hochiminh city, a densely populated city "overspilling" beyond its narrow
limits. Social problems pertinent to the change of female occupation in the city's rapidly
urbanizing rural suburban areas will be the main theme of this article. -
http://vsed.onestop.net/7nkdung.htmEXOTIC
DANCERS: GENDER DIFFERENCES IN SOCIETAL REACTION, SUBCULTURAL TIES, AND CONVENTIONAL
SUPPORT - Old Dominion University - Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice
- ABSTRACT - We explore the world of female and male exotic dancers. Utilizing
Hirschis Bonding theory, we look at gender differences in societal reaction,
subcultural ties, and conventional support among dancers in a large metropolitan area. -
Full-Text - albany.edu/scj/jcjpc/vol10is1/bernard.html
Author
Gul Ozyegin - Untidy Gender - Domestic Service in Turkey
- Interviews with Turkish maids yield surprising facts about class and gender roles
- Excerpt available at www.temple.edu/tempress |
Female Athletes: Being both Athletic and Feminine
W. Stephen Royce, Janet L. Gebelt, & Robert W. Duff , University of Portland
Abstract: Because athletics traditionally has been seen as incompatible with traditional
roles for women, female athletes have been expected to experience gender role conflict as
they attempt to identify with incompatible roles. However, while negative stereotypes of
female athletes persist, research has found little such conflict. In this study,
questionnaire and interview data from male and female college athletes and nonathletes
suggest some explanations for this. The data showed: (a) Female athletes were accorded
greater respect than were male athletes; (b) all groups' ratings of the femininity of
female athletes were above the neutral point, though the ratings of men and nonathletes
were significantly lower than those of women and athletes; and (c) consistent with the
multiplicity perspective, female athletes reported experiencing their feminine and
athletic identities as distinctively different aspects of self. -
http://www.athleticinsight.com/Vol5Iss1/FeminineAthletes.htm
Social Structural Model of Womens
Reproductive Rights:
A Cross-National Study of Developing Countries
Vijayan K. Pillai and Guang-zhen Wang
Abstract: Using data from 101 developing countries, this study tests a theoretical model
of womens reproductive rights in developing countries. The effects of modernization
processes and family planning programs on womens reproductive rights are examined.
It is found that family planning programs have no statistically significant effect on
womens reproductive rights, although they contribute to the decline in population
growth. The effect of womens education on reproductive rights is found to be
negative. Gender equality is the most important factor that affects the achievement of
womens reproductive rights in developing nations. Social and economic development
does not directly influence womens reproductive rights, but functions through the
attainment of womens education and gender equality. Policy implications are
discussed.- http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/cjscopy/articles/abstracts24-2.html
Trail, G. T., Anderson, D. F., & Fink, J. S. (2002). Examination
of gender differences in importance and satisfaction with venue factors at intercollegiate
basketball games: Effects on future spectator attendance. International Sports
Journal, 6, 51-64.
Abstract: The results of this study indicated that respondents differed on satisfaction
with, and importance of, venue characteristics (overall venue cleanliness, concessions,
parking, usher behavior, restrooms, audio experience) at intercollegiate basketball games
based on team gender and spectator gender. -
http://exercise.educ.iastate.edu/research/research_abstract.asp?pubid=132
UNIFEM - Women's Empowerment and Gender Equality:
Implementation and Accountability
Presentation by Noeleen Heyzer, Executive Director, UNIFEM -
http://www.unifem.org/speeches.php?f_page_pid=77&f_pritem_pid=118
Experts Say Bias and Violence Increase Women's Vulnerability to HIV/AIDS -
http://www.unfpa.org/news/news.cfm?ID=373&Language=1
UNIFEM LAUNCHES WEB PORTAL ON WOMEN, PEACE AND SECURITY
Portal Launched to Commemorate Third Anniversary of Security Council Resolution 1325 on
Women, Peace and Security -
http://www.unifem.org/pressreleases.php?f_page_pid=6&f_pritem_pid=122
Partnerships for Women's Empowerment: Key to Sustainable Development
Presentation by Noeleen Heyzer, Executive Director, UNIFEM -
http://www.unifem.org/speeches.php?f_page_pid=77&f_pritem_pid=117
New Report Reveals Paradox of Ongoing Violence Against Women Despite Considerable Progress
Over Last Decade in Efforts to Eliminate It -
http://www.unifem.org/pressreleases.php?f_page_pid=6&f_pritem_pid=147
One in Three Women Worldwide Could Suffer Violence
Directed at Her Simply Because She is Female -
http://www.unifem.org/pressreleases.php?f_page_pid=6&f_pritem_pid=149
Women Pioneers in Canadian Sociology: The Effects
of a Politics of Gender And a Politics of Knowledge
Margrit Eichler
Abstract: This article examines the life histories of ten anglophone Canadian pioneer
women sociologists: Helen Abell, Grace Anderson, Jean Burnet, Eleanor Cebotarev, Kathleen
Herman, Helen McGill Hughes, Thelma McCormack, Helen Ralston, Aileen Ross and Dorothy
Smith. All were born before 1930, encountered significant sexism, and found jobs very
easily. This pattern is placed into the context of a politics of gender and a politics of
knowledge. Politics of gender in the institutional context and in family roles resulted in
disadvantages, while the effect of the womens movement led to solidarity among women
sociologists and eventual improvements in their situation. The simultaneous emergence of
the womens movement and the Canadianization movement led to a politics of knowledge
which proved advantageous for both. Nevertheless, the sociological canon so far has not
included women pioneers the author needed to conduct interviews since almost no
published information existed about most of these important sociologists prior to this
paper.
Author Gul Ozyegin
- Untidy Gender - Domestic Service in Turkey
- Interviews with Turkish maids yield surprising facts about class and gender roles
- Excerpt available at www.temple.edu/tempress
"A sophisticated and sensitive text on domestic service in Turkey that singles itself
out by a powerful account of the micro-sociology of power. It engages the reader in much
broader debates about the mutual relations of class and gender, the role of patriarchal
controls in shaping informal female labor markets and the management of status
differentials by women in their daily lives. An important scholarly contribution written
in a lucid and accessible style."
Deniz Kandiyoti, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Untidy Gender takes readers into the interconnected worlds of Turkish maids and the women
who employ them, tracing the incorporation of rural migrant women into the interiors of
the domestic spheres of the urban middle-classes. Firmly grounded in data collected
through a representative survey of 160 domestic workers, in-depth interviews, and
participant observation in the kinship-based communities of domestic workers, this book
forges a new understanding of the complex interaction between gender and class
subordination.
Ozyegin traces the lives of two kinds of workers; those from the squatter settlements who
work in a number of locations, and those who live with husbands employed as
"doorkeepers" or building superintendents in the basements of middle-class
apartment buildings. In a literal "upstairs, downstairs" arrangement, the latter
women sometimes take on apartment cleaning for clients in the building.
At the center of the book are a number of ironies about patriarchy. On the surface,
husbands have absolute control over whether or not their wives work, but some women work
in secret, and those "doorkeeper" husbands who allow their wives to work often
provide child care themselves. Ironically, the very constraints on the spatial and social
mobility of the women creates a labor market in which domestic workers' labor is expensive
and not readily forthcoming, which, in turn, gives them a degree of power in negotiating
their relationship with their middle-class employers.
Untidy Gender offers insights not only into the gender and class dynamics of Turkish
society, but contributes to the refinement of central terms of feminist scholarship and
research on work in the informal sector, cross-class relations between women, gender and
class inequality, and women's experiences of modernity and urbanization. The author ends
with a personal account of her own difficulties with the class tensions of the
maid-employer relationship.
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