Recently added articles from Women's Health Collection:
Caregiving services and social and gender equity: recovering the State's capacity for regulation and social protection.(THEORY)
Jan 01, 2009; ... 1. The Interaction between Production and Reproduction from a Gender Perspective Traditionally, the Welfare State has sought to create societies that are integrated by actions intended to influence and regulate the allocation of resources and opportunities dictated by the ...
Caregiving from a rights-based perspective: from individual to universal.(THEORY)(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Everyday, we hear more and more about the difficulties that women face as they try to coordinate their productive work with their family responsibilities. Just how can women get to work, looking like calm, cool and collected professionals, after having to organize logistics and ...
What's so economic about the economy of care? (And why should we care?).(division of labor, caregiving, and home economics)(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... In recent years, the concept of "the economy of care" has been used to resuscitate a longstanding feminist debate on the inequitable distribution of domestic responsibilities between private households and the State, on one hand, and between women and men, on the other. The ...
Healthcare work as women's work: parallels and analogies between domestic care and paid caregiving.(RESEARCH)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Introduction This article reports on a study analyzing the structure, characteristics and distribution of employment in the healthcare sector in the province of Cordoba, Argentina. (1) This research project applied a gender perspective to the complex institutional and ...
From sun to sun.(gender bias, roles, and stereotypes on women)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Six in the morning. The baby wakes up hungry and cries. The sounds of domesticity are all around: the kettle is boiling, quick footsteps in the hallway. "Come on. It's time to wake up!" Nine in the morning. A frail, elderly woman is seeing the doctor about her diabetes. Her ...