Gender, Work, and Employment
Year: 2017
Type: reference-entry
Abstract: The unequal distribution and embodied performance of “work” are intimately bound up with everyday sites and activities of production, consumption, and domestic social reproduction. It is important to differentiate between work and employment and to qualify these terms with the concept of gender. This is because the prevalent notion of work as employment overlooks a wide variety of unpaid work without which any society could not reproduce its working population. Persistent inequalities are evident in the nature and extent of work performed by women and men around the world and in how different jobs are rewarded and afforded social status. Work and employment can be viewed in a number of ways: as structured events in people's lives, as flows of income and social capital, and as enduring sites of identity formation. Understanding the multidimensional world of work is central to our wider appreciation of global social justice, inequality, and uneven development.
Author: Helen Jarvis
Institution: Newcastle University
Language: English
Subfield: Safety Research
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2545513803