tag: women's work (feimineach)

#vivelafeminism: #WomensMarch needs to care about capitalism (too) – @feministcurrent

February 6, 2017

On January 21st, an estimated 2.9 million people participated in Women’s Marches around the U.S., setting a record for the largest one-day protest in the nation’s history. For many feminists, a public display of enthusiasm of this degree is inspiring, perhaps marking the resurgence of a mass movement against the politics of the right. But in order to take the […]

#guestpost: the 2.2%: meet the women who drive London’s cabs

November 1, 2016

This is a man’s world. And if you have any reservations about that statement, we’re about to hit you with some pretty depressing statistics. Buckle up… 36% of secondary school headteachers are women, despite the fact that 62% of the secondary school workforce is female A meagre 29% of the UK’s MPs are women Women hold just 11% of roles […]

#womenslives: “When women are too busy cleaning and cooking…”

February 28, 2016

#womenslives: “When women are too busy cleaning and cooking, they have less time for paid work” – @olgakhazan For example: “American women spend more than two hours daily on chores, compared to just 82 minutes for men. Even in Finland, a country that seems more progressive on gender issues, women sweep, scrub, and change diapers for 137 minutes daily, and […]

#womenslives: Do we value women’s work?

November 20, 2015

Do we value women’s work? (The F-Word) Global Women’s Strike argue it’s time to stand up for women’s unpaid care work. It is forty years since the women of Iceland took a Day Off and brought the country to a halt and 20 years since we won a commitment from governments celebrating the UN Decade for Women to include the […]

#research: ‘Women are just better at this stuff’: is emotional labor feminism’s next frontier? (guardian)

November 9, 2015

‘Women are just better at this stuff’: is emotional labor feminism’s next frontier? (guardian) In a work context, emotional labor refers to the expectation that a worker should manipulate either her actual feelings or the appearance of her feelings in order to satisfy the perceived requirements of her job. Emotional labor also covers the requirement that a worker should modulate […]

#research: Patriarchy’s Magic Trick: How Anything Perceived As Women’s Work Immediately Sheds Its Value

September 9, 2014

I’ve posted quite a bit about gender imbalance in the workplace this week (particularly in terms in science careers) and here is another. This post (from cratesandribbons) is from a while back but it’s well worth posting again. It debunks the idea that women earn less than men because they “naturally” gravitate towards less well paid industries and puts forth […]