Dissertations / Theses: 'Working women'

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Lai, Pui-yim Ada. "Working daughters in the 1990's /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B20716515.

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Young, Mai-san. "Women in transition : from working daughters to unemployed mothers /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk:8888/cgi-bin/hkuto%5Ftoc%5Fpdf?B22956384.

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Mandeville, V. Ann. "The Scriptural validity of working women." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1986. http://www.tren.com.

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James, Laura. "Working women : gender, class and place." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.440718.

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Korpradit, Chanatip. "The working lives of Thai women." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2011. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/51475/.

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This study draws on gender issues relating to the employment and family responsibilities of Thai working women in order to better understand their management of these. The study thus attempts to address key gaps in the literature through a consideration of women’s careers, the social structure in Thailand, Thai women in the labour market, equal treatment according to merit and respondents’ experiences of being working mothers. This research thereby contributes to the research on employment and the family responsibilities of Thai working women. Thus, the study is not only an examination of gender issues in relation to employment and family responsibilities, but the data collected also enables the generation of interesting new hypotheses derived from the narratives provided by women concerning the impact of these dual spheres. Moreover, this study contributes to the wider literature on gender by seeking to explore the role of working mothers as a complex aspect of women’s experiences.

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Archer, Janice Marie. "Working women in thirteenth-century Paris." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/187182.

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This thesis examines the role of women in the Parisian economy in the late thirteenth century. The Livre des metiers of Etienne Boileau offers normative provisions regarding societal structures that permitted but restricted the participation of women, while the tax rolls commonly known as the roles de la taille de Philippe le Bel furnish numbers which show their actual participation. While these sources are well known, they have not heretofore been rigorously examined. Conclusions about women based on them have been amorphous. Married women are nearly invisible in these records, but unmarried women and widows headed 13.6% of Parisian workshops. Women monopolized the Parisian silk industry. About one-third of Parisian women in the late thirteenth century worked in jobs traditionally considered "women's work," including the preparation of food and clothing, peddling food on the street, and providing personal services. The other two-thirds did nearly every kind of work that men did. A "putting out" system was well in place in Paris at this time. Women classified as chambrieres or ouvrieres worked at home, spinning and weaving raw materials provided by an entrepreneur and selling back to the entrepreneur the finished product. Working at home allowed a woman to combine household duties with production for the marketplace. Girls usually learned a trade by working alongside their parents. Formal apprenticeships were less common for girls than for boys. While women could and did participate in nearly every trade, their numbers were concentrated in the lowest-paid metiers. The few women who practiced trades dominated by men were much more successful financially.

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Hearn, Roxane Evonne. "Exercise Adherence Among Active Working Women." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3996.

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Low levels of exercise adherence has contributed to the increased prevalence of heart disease, cancer, and diabetes in American women. These low levels, coupled with high exercise program dropout rates, point to a need for strategies to increase exercise frequency in women who exercise, but not enough to improve their health and reduce risks. Real-time interventions, such as text messaging, could be useful in improving the cognitions that regulate adherence. Using a snowball sampling strategy, a cross-sectional sample of working women (N =130), ages 18-64, in the volitional stage of exercise behavior, completed a 60-item survey on exercise behavior. Social Cognitive Theory SCT and the Health Action Process Approach HAPA served as the guiding theories to test the first hypothesis that the mean strength of maintenance-self efficacy, action and coping planning skills, and limitation of real-life demands between women who adhered to exercise frequency recommendations and women who did not, would differ. Findings from an independent t test revealed significant differences in each of the variables of interest between adherers and nonadherers. A Pearson correlation test of the second hypothesis, which was guided by the SCT and the Technology Acceptance Model, revealed a significant positive relationship between the perceived usefulness of texting and the limitation of real-life demands reported by participants. This study highlights a need for further research into these differences so interventions can be more effectively aimed at addressing the factors that most affect an active working woman's ability to maintain adequate exercise frequency levels. Doing so could improve their quality of life, reduce mortality rates, and the societal burden of healthcare costs.

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Chwang, Lam-ying Constance. "Working women in Japan and Hong Kong." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1991. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13022180.

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Khumalo, Keku Elizabeth. "Working against and working towards : narratives of South African women principals." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/63183.

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Although women continue to experience setbacks in senior education positions, few people know about that as their stories are rarely written nor told. This study is an attempt to tell such silenced stories about me and my co-story teller, Mrs Nalo. We are mothers, wives and principals of successful secondary schools in Limpopo province. The purpose of this study is to understand the experiences and challenges of women principals in a distinctly South African context. The study is a narrative of our stories with the intention of exploring our experiences so that I could better understand how our stories speak to challenges of leadership in South African Secondary Schools. My aim is to set my story alongside hers and to look for commonalities that offer insights into the stories of women principals in South Africa. The study lends itself to combination of “auto ethnography”, ethnography as well as narrative approach. In carrying out this study we kept our daily journals. We engaged in three taped recorded conversations followed by a number of telephone conversations. I transcribed verbatim the three conversations and identified common themes across both stories and read them against the Capability Approach (CA). I took a positive and optimistic stance and recognised that we were not always able to achieve our desired functionings and that at times we were not able to realise fully the potential of our capabilities. The study again found that regardless of setbacks we encounter in achieving our functionings, we still managed to convert resources at our disposal to achieve them. I also found that although CA aims to enhance the developmental opportunities for those who have been marginalised, it turns a blind eye to invisible elements of women’s lives in their profession; that of being a mother and a wife. Its logic applies primarily to the professional aspects of women’s lives. My final argument in this study is that prioritising the professional, especially for women, limits the scope and potential of a CA. CA therefore needs to wholly consider the complexities of being a woman leader, a wife and a mother, for women to be able to enhance their ability to use capabilities and resources to achieve much-valued functionings. Key words: Auto ethnography, ethnography, narrative inquiry, capability approach, agency, functionings, women principals, South Africa; women and leadership; traditional practices; developing countries; secondary school leadership.
Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2017.
Education Management and Policy Studies
PhD
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Rankin, Cherie L. Breu Christopher. "Working it through women's working-class literature, the working woman's body, and working-class pedagogy /." Normal, Ill. : Illinois State University, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=1417799101&SrchMode=1&sid=7&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1205258868&clientId=43838.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 2007.
Title from title page screen, viewed on March 11, 2008. Dissertation Committee: Christopher D. Breu (chair), Cynthia A. Huff, Amy E. Robillard. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 262-273) and abstract. Also available in print.

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Gonick, Marnina K. "Working from home : women, work and family." Thesis, McGill University, 1987. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=63862.

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Meier, Stephanie, and Kelly Nash. "Diggin’ Independence: Women Working Toward Self-Sufficiency." Research Showcase @ CMU, 2011. http://repository.cmu.edu/theses/24.

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Women with young children are a growing population experiencing homelessness. Transitional housing services provide shelter and educational programming aimed at fostering the development of skills necessary to attain and maintain basic needs. Adagio Health’s transitional home, Healthy Start House (HSH) served as a case study in which to explore the intersection of design, service and social innovation. The metrics of success outlined by the county for HSH include attaining permanent housing and employment or education. Using a co-creative process, exploratory and generative research uncovered that the service had no clear route to assist the women to develop core competencies to meet the county’s metrics of success. Rather than create a new extension of the current service, this design solution focuses on amplifying the resources and infrastructure already in place to improve the current service delivery. The solution includes an ideal plan for the HSH staff to work with the clients to comprehensively develop their core competencies, and an expanded view of how a money management system helps the clients meet the county’s metrics. We hypothesize, through this system, clients will re-enter society smoothly, armed with the skills and knowledge needed to provide for themselves and their children. While the design generated much enthusiasm from all stakeholders, the concept would benefit from further testing and iterations over a longer length of time to understand if it can, indeed, improve learning and performance outcomes and create sustained behavior change.

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Chwang, Lam-ying Constance, and 莊琳瑛. "Working women in Japan and Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1991. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31949885.

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Petty, Sue. "Working-class women and contemporary British literature." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2009. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/5441.

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This thesis involves a class-based literary criticism of working-class women s writing. I particularly focus on a selection of novels by three working-class women writers - Livi Michael, Caeia March and Joan Riley. Their work emerged in the 1980s, the era of Thatcherism, which is a definitive period in British history that spawned a renaissance of working-class literature. In my readings of the novels I look at three specific aspects of identity: gender, sexuality and race with the intersection of social class, to examine how issues of economic positioning impinge further on the experience of respectively being a woman, a lesbian and a black woman in contemporary British society. I also appropriate various feminist theories to argue for the continued relevance of social class in structuring women s lives in late capitalism. Working-class writing in general, and working-class women s writing in particular, has historically been under-represented in academic study, so that by highlighting the work of these three lesser known writers, and by indicating that they are worthy of study, this thesis is also complicit in an act of feminist historiography.

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Lai, Pui-yim Ada, and 黎佩炎. "Working daughters in the 1990's." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1999. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31221063.

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Schreiner, Jennifer Ann. "Women working for their freedom : FCWU and AFCWU and the women question." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15841.

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Bibliography: leaves 192-203.
This thesis has two parallel processes of investigation. Firstly, it is an investigation of the extent to which a trade union can successfully participate in the struggle for working women's rights at work and concerning motherhood and childcare, and in the struggle for the realisation of the political aspirations of women workers within a capitalist society. Secondly, the thesis examines the ideological position of the Food and Canning Workers Union in order to refine the theoretical understanding of the woman question in South Africa. Research methods have relied on use of archival documents, both published and unpublished; oral history; secondary sources on the union being studied and on South African society; as well as classical and contemporary texts on the theory of women's oppression and its interconnection with exploitation. The research has been hindered by the historical repression meted out by the South African state, which has forced people into exile, banned written sources, and removed archival material from South Africa. The recent repression has severely hampered the extent of interviewing and discussion, as well as made the process of research and writing of the thesis a difficult undertaking. The union's organising strategy is examined in terms of the following three issues: 1. Because of their dual responsibilities as worker and mother, and because of their relatively unorganised position, women workers are ultra-exploited. What role can a union play in fighting against the various aspects of this? The specific aspects of ultra-exploitation found in the food and canning industry are temporary employment and periodic unemployment; child labour; piece-work; excessive overtime. 2. The inclusion of women into wage labour faces them with a task of combining motherhood and wage labour. How can a union win demands to assist these women workers with this task? The two ways in which the union confronted this question were maternity rights and childcare facilities. 3. The assault on working class in terms of the right to work, the right to live where one chooses, the right to family life, and the right to a decent standard of living was a burden to working class women in particular.

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Yau, Kin-man Angela. "Changes in educational and working opportunities for women of China and Japan." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2001. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31953335.

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Robinson-Pyne, Elizabeth Mary. "Rugby working women : choices and experiences, 1920-1950." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/31039.

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This thesis is a study of working women in the town of Rugby, Warwickshire. It aims to 'tracks' the experiences of young female embarking on their first job and their subsequent lives via the oral testimony of Rugby inhabitants. Oral evidence has been used, which has provided a unique resource. Over one hundred interviews were conducted with Rugby women which discussed their background, childhood and school days, starting work, employment experiences, finding a husband and their lives after marriage. The oral testimony is used to create a 'cameo' of national experience during the period and poses questions as to how young Rugby girls were affected by national events. First, the thesis concentrates on the question of 'choice' for girls upon leaving school compared with the opportunities offered in the town, and how a number of factors influenced their decisions when seeking employment for the first time for example, parental influence, financial considerations and the prospects for future education and training. Secondly, the future lives of the young girls are explored by focusing on the ramifications of their 'choices' and how important it was for girls to have made the 'correct' decision. For example, different employers are discussed in relation to promotion and the training of a skill, the earning possibilities when comparing factory and clerical work and the possibilities of finding a suitable marriage partner. Lastly, the female 'powerbase' is discussed in relation to the home and workplace. The thesis suggests that married women found themselves in an ambiguous position of having moral authority and power in the home, whilst being unable to match this in the workplace.

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Dahlberg, Raymond. "Health and working conditions among low-educated women /." Stockholm : Arbetslivsinstitutet, 2005. http://diss.kib.ki.se/2005/91-7045-758-1/.

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Faris, Ariana. "Community approaches to working with asylum seeking women." Thesis, University of South Wales, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.492504.

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Thomson, Aleksandra. "Flexible working : the experiences of women knowledge workers." Thesis, Bournemouth University, 2018. http://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/31040/.

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Work organisations in the knowledge economy depend on a different talent: knowledge workers, whose tacit knowledge is valuable to employers in the quest for a competitive advantage. Knowledge work and its concomitant reliance on information and communication technologies facilitate flexible work arrangements (FWA), which in turn enable crossing of spatial and temporal boundaries. These new ways of working are often recommended for women to retain their careers, resolve work-life balance issues and achieve their full potential. However, there is a dearth of studies into experiences of women knowledge workers who use FWA. Furthermore, existing research on knowledge workers not only largely neglects women’s perspectives, but it also presents utopian ideals of freedom, autonomy and prestige often adopting high-status, exclusive knowledge worker conceptualisations. Moreover, FWA and knowledge work fused under one theoretical framework is still under-explored and under-theorised. Therefore, the aim of this research is to better understand how women knowledge workers obtain, experience, and manage FWA. A qualitative approach was adopted involving semi- structured interviews with 30 women knowledge workers in South West England. Template analysis was used to make sense of the data. The research findings emerged inductively and structuration theory (ST) guided the exploration of the participants’ accounts. This study found that the women knowledge workers drew upon their internal and external structures, such as occupational capital, knowledge and people to obtain FWA by the practices of leveraging, rationalising and bargaining. Once they had secured FWA, these women engaged in practices to emulate normativity, compensate, conceal their flexible status, reciprocate flexibility, and create impact. Furthermore, the women’s perceived consequences of utilising FWA were explored in relation to their lives and careers. This study proposes an inductively emergent theory of women knowledge workers’ experiences of FWA with the concepts of Becoming and (Un)becoming Flexible. Although the women knowledge workers had a strong human capital to firstly Become Flexible, then they strived to (Un)become Flexible by realigning with the expectations of constant presence, availability and performance in the eyes of organisational audience. These practices contributed to the weakening of their professional currency, strengthening the ideal worker and gender norms, and reproducing neoliberal values making these women responsible for the unwanted daily incursions of outside commitments. This study fills a number of gaps in current scholarship. Firstly, by focusing on women, this study contributes to a largely gender- neutral knowledge work literature. Secondly, by exploring women’s experiences in the context of the right to request flexible working, this study enhances our knowledge of how FWA are negotiated and obtained. Thirdly, by adopting ST to make sense of the data, this study helps us better understand how women knowledge workers are simultaneously leveraging structures for agentic practices and reproducing structures that may ultimately constrain them.

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Doherty, Kate. "Exploring domestic violence towards women working in prostitution." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/31209.

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The aim of this thesis was to explore domestic violence towards women working in prostitution, an area which has been lacking in research, despite a small number of studies suggesting it may be a common feature of sex workers' lives. A review article firstly examines literature on domestic violence in the general population, specifically outlining theoretical models, and research into risk factors and treatment interventions. The second part of the review article examines research on sex workers' experiences of childhood abuse and later violence, both whilst working and in their personal relationships.;The research report outlines a qualitative study which aimed to explore sex workers' experiences of domestic violence. Interviews were carried out with seven women with experiences of domestic violence and prostitution, then analysed using grounded theory. This produced a model which describes a number of factors which are hypothesised to sustain or resist domestic violence within these women's lives. The analysis highlighted both the impact of prostitution on domestic violence and the experiences which sex workers have in common with the general population of women experiencing this form of abuse. Clinical implications of the research are examined. Finally a critical appraisal examines describes the researcher's reflections on the overall research process.

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Fernandez, Jody Ann. "The literacy practices of working class white women." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2004. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0000235.

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Marsh, Gloria June. "Working women : the terrain between dependence and independence." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1995.

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In the past twenty years there has been a fundamental change in the roles of women, particularly in relation to women and work. These changes are linked, in part, to women's demands for greater equality such as equal pay, divorce reform, and childcare facilities. In the past the Government reinforced and maintained many of the gender inequalities but in recent years this has changed. Workforce participation for women is now encouraged, or even expected, especially for those women who receive income support from the State. Most research on women and employment has concentrated on well educated women who have professional occupations; little has been done to explore the attitudes and expectations of women who do not fit into this category. This study set out to explore women's attitudes and perceptions about paid and unpaid work; careers and career women; about working mothers and about financial dependence, either on the State or a partner. In-depth interviews with four groups of women were used: those working full time and part time; those who were unemployed and looking for work, and those not looking for work. This study found that the majority of these women wanted to work in the paid workforce but they also wanted to work the hours that fitted into other circumstances of their lives. For some this was the needs of their family roles and for others it was study or other interests. Most of these women supported the right of women with children to paid work but thought that women were most responsible for children. In contrast, housework was seen to be a shared responsibility, although few had experienced this. Most of these women saw a career as being different from having a job, and saw career women as being women whom they respected but did not personally identify with. While many of these women worked, or wanted to work for the financial rewards, many saw paid employment as providing them with financial independence, either from their partner or from State income support.

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Lai, Kwai-fong Wendy. "A study of the roles of Chinese working women in China and Hong Kong." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1995. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B19672159.

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Kellett, Janine. "A study of working women in selected postwar texts by French women writers." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.325394.

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Bowen, Scarlett K. "The labor of femininity : working women in eighteenth-century British prose /." Digital version accessible at:, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p9837908.

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Chenault, Wesley. "Working the Margins: Women in the Comic Book Industry." unrestricted, 2007. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04232007-124907/.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2007.
Title from file title page. Marian Meyers, committee chair; Layli Phillips, Amira Jarmakani, committee members. Description based on contents viewed June 3, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 120-123).

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Cathro, Rebecca Ann. "New Zealand's women working free? : a decade of change." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Department of Political Science, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/4311.

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This thesis examines the effects and impacts of the Employment Contracts Act 1991 on women in non-standard from 1991-1999 in New Zealand. It addresses the need for qualitative research that gives voice to the experiences of women in non-standard work. The research model developed in this thesis is informed by feminist methodology. It is argued that the traditional methods of recording employment statistics and of conducting survey interviews do not account for the personal experiences of the respondents. This study combines three techniques: analysis of published literature, analysis of employment statistics and in-depth qualitative interviews with six women in non-standard employment. Examination of the political context of the enactment of the Employment Contracts Act 1991 highlighted varied expectations of the legislation. Political parties, feminist researchers and interest groups differed in their assessment of the implications of the Act for women in non-standard work. The study compares these views with statistical data and the findings of interviews with women in non-standard work. It is argued that the Act has had a significant effect on women. The flexibility of employment created by the Act has enabled women with young children to work by lifting the constraints on time, as well as the responsibilities of child-care. However, flexible working hours imposed significant constraints on women's private time and the results of the interviews suggest that the affects of the Act are different for women who no longer require flexibility in work in order to work around child-care responsibilities. In conclusion, this discussion gives a new perspective to the study of the effects of the Employment Contracts Act 1991 by supplementing analysis of political debate and statistical records with opportunities for ordinary women workers to reflect on their experiences. This indicative study provides a basis for further research in this area.

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Young, Mai-san, and 楊美珊. "Women in transition: from working daughters to unemployed mothers." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1999. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31225524.

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Ng, Catherine Wah-Hung. "A multiplicity model of oppresssion/liberation of working women." Thesis, University of Kent, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.300946.

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Smeraldo, Kaitlyn N. "(Re)Constructing Gender: White, Working-Class Women and Trauma." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1553336041577677.

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Lau, Sum-yin. "Escape, exploration and pursuit : Japanese women working in Hong Kong /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B20522435.

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Lucas, Denise DeMaria. "Learned resourcefulness in working women who are poor and uninsured." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10450/10932.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--West Virginia University, 2010.
Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains v, 106 p. : ill. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 87-94).

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Yau, Kin-man Angela, and 游健敏. "Changes in educational and working opportunities for women of China and Japan." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2001. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31953335.

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Coughlin, Barbara Ellen. "The subjective experiences of first-time motherhood for career women." Click here for text online. The Institute of Clinical Social Work Dissertations website, 1995. http://www.icsw.edu/_dissertations/coughlin_1995.pdf.

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Dissertation (Ph.D.) -- The Institute for Clinical Social Work, 1995.
A dissertation submitted to the faculty of the Institute of Clinical Social Work in partial fulfillment for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

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Sykes, Barbara. "Making decisions about child care : a study of Canadian women." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2001. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1632/.

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The increasing involvement of mothers in paid employment has brought attention to child care both as a critical social issue and as a pressing need for families. Nevertheless, child care in Canada continues to be framed as a private issue to be resolved by individual families. In the absence of policies and programs that ensure widespread access to affordable, high-quality care, women who combine motherhood with paid employment face considerable challenges in making decisions about child care. This study examines the processes by which women make child care decisions and sheds light on both how and why they make such decisions. The emphasis is on the meanings that women themselves give to motherhood, paid work, and child care and on how they resolve the competing interests that inevitably underlie work and family decisions. By drawing on women's accounts of their own lives, the research elucidates the multiple and interrelated factors that enter into women's decisions and thus offers insights into the reasoning behind complex patterns of decision making. In-depth interviews were conducted with 25 women who were intending to return to work or school following the birth of their first child. Women were interviewed at three points in time, encompassing a period from late pregnancy to several months after returning to work. The study furthers our understanding of the public and private dimensions of child care by revealing the dilemmas faced by women who frame their child care concerns in deeply moral terms, yet are called on to meet their child care needs within a public market oriented child care system. In particular, women's accounts of their experiences demonstrate the ways in which the intertwined and deeply privatised notions of 'dependent child' and 'good mother' underlie women's decisions about child care. Moreover, the research leaves no doubt that women's experiences of making child care decisions do not accord with the prevailing neo-classical economics version of rational and self-interested decision making. By examining women's decisions over time, the study illuminates the sequence of decision making about child care and adds to our understanding of what is entailed in looking for and deciding about child care. The study concludes with a discussion of implications of the findings for policy development and future research.

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Porter, Susie Shannon. "In the shadows of industrialization : the entrance of women into the Mexican industrial work force, 1880-1940 /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 1997. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9732697.

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Haney, Colleen Judith. "Coping strategies for working women : aerobic exercise and relaxation interventions." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/26758.

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This study examined the effects of two 8-week stress-management interventions (aerobic exercise and progressive relaxation) on reductions in trait anxiety, increases in self-efficacy, and enhancement of coping strategies for sedentary working women. It was expected that aerobic exercise, a relatively new treatment, would be as effective or more effective than progressive relaxation, a well researched treatment, as a stress-management intervention. The subjects were 72 females aged 24-59, (M = 39.8) solicited from the Vancouver community via newspaper advertisement asking for stressed volunteers to participate in two stress-management programs. They were interviewed and randomly assigned to an aerobic exercise or progressive relaxation treatment. The treatment sessions were conducted over an 8-week period with subjects meeting in groups for 1 1/2 hours per week. Prior to the first session subjects were administered: STAI-T (Spielberger, Gorsuch, & Lushene, 1970), the General Self-Efficacy Scale (Sherer et al., 1982), Ways of Coping Checklist (Lazarus 6 Folkman, 1984), and a 7-Day Exercise Recall Inventory (Blair, 1984). Subjects were assessed again at post treatment and at 8-week follow-up. Repeated measures, multivariate analysis of variance with preplanned contrasts, indicated that both treatment groups were effective in decreasing trait anxiety and increasing self-efficacy from pre- to post-treatment. These changes were maintained at 8-week follow-up. In addition, a one-way multivariate analysis of variance with repeated measures indicated that the total number of coping strategies, as well as the difference between the number of problem-focused and emotion-focused coping strategies, did not change significantly from pre- to post-treatment. Additionally, there was a negative relationship between low scores in self-efficacy and high scores in emotion-focused coping. In response to ancillary post-treatment and follow-up questionnaires, aerobic exercise was perceived by the participants as a more satisfactory stress-management treatment. Implications of these results and suggestions for future studies are discussed.
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Robbins, Margaret. "Gender matters women counsellors' experience of working with male clients /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ39226.pdf.

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Bylund, Sonya H. "Hand-arm vibration and working women : Consequences and affecting factors." Doctoral thesis, Umeå : Dept. of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Univ. : Arbetslivsinstitutet, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-381.

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Lau, Sum-yin, and 劉心硏. "Escape, exploration and pursuit: Japanese women working in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1998. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31221191.

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Straw, P. "Times of their lives : A century of working class women." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.371886.

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Feldman-Chaberman, Lya. "Social roles, psychosocial factors and health in Venezuelan working women." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.390672.

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Ghasemi, Asemeh. "Iranian women working in broadcast media : motivations, challenges and achievements." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2014. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/27827/.

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This research is premised on the investigation of Muslim women working in the Iranian Radio and Television Organisation (IRIB). The study is structured on a number of principal questions: why these women joined IRIB and how they managed the reactions of sceptical family members; how they construct the meaning of womanhood in relation to work, family and motherhood; what challenges these women encounter in the workplace; and how they negotiate and persevere to overcome those challenges, achieve success and make changes in a male-dominated organisation. The main focus is on the post-1979 Islamic revolution, when many practicing Muslim women, who were largely excluded from the film and media industries before the Revolution, began working in radio and television. Modern media that were considered instruments of ‘westernisation’ and ‘decadence’ before the Revolution were re-legitimised by religious authorities and even elevated to the status of ‘public universities’. Many Muslim women, therefore, entered this male dominated ‘forbidden space’ that had a largely secular and liberal work culture before the Revolution. Through 30 semi-structured interviews with these women, this research examines gender relations within the workspace, family domain and in the public arena. The research manifests complex dynamics of gender relations in the context of Iran and in the IRIB organisation. It argues that gender is a relational concept; and an area of constant negotiation and contest. In particular, the study demonstrates that gender relations are defined in negotiation with religious beliefs, traditional norms and political ideologies. They are also reinforced in the family and embedded in the culture of organisation. Overall, it is concluded that after the Islamic revolution, Muslim women found new opportunities to enter spaces in the public domain that were previously considered as being ‘inappropriate’ for women. Despite confronting many challenges in this respect, they have exercised their agency and achieved considerable success in changing traditional and prejudiced attitudes within structures that are underpinned by Islamic gender ideology. In doing so, they have also constructed a new identity of Muslim women that goes beyond simplistic stereotypical dichotomies such as liberated/oppressed, western/eastern, and secular/Muslim.

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Plummer, Gillian. "What has education done for working-class women and girls?" Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1997. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10020292/.

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What has education done for working-class women and girls?' This study looks at 'how working-class life is theorised , and 'how it is experienced'. I start by analysing historical, sociological and psychological interpretations of class and gender subordination in the context of working-class women's relation to education and success, focusing specifically on inferiority as a learned position. In adopting a multidisciplinary approach I confront dominant discourses and structures of academic knowledge evoking different sides of the conflictual relationship between 'able' working-class girls and formal education. 'Gaps' and 'absences' in theory are identified and interpretations questioned. Set alongside both mainstream and progressive accounts of education and related equality issues are the subjective accounts of educated working-class women. Using autobiography and biography I write analytically of personal experiences which demonstrate classism from an educated white, working-class. female perspective. I take as my subject childhood experiences of home-school conflict in examining in-depth the history of educated working-class women's Odi et amo relationship to education. 'How does family, peer group and schooling impact on identity, academic success and selfworth to the detriment of working-class girls?' The accounts are the testimonies of a group of educated working-class women - including myself - who aspired to obtain a formal education during the 50s; 60s and 70s and were 'educated out of their class'. I use the accounts to challenge and re-shape existing knowledge and theory. This Ph.D is also about its own construction, that is, educated working-class women's need for educational success, for inclusion and for validation of self worth.

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Thondoo, Sandrina. "Working women in Cape Town: reconciling religious beliefs and modernity." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/4740.

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A patriarchal reading of the Qur'ānic verse 4:34 implies the subordination of wives to their husband within their families. The fundamental duty of the husband to support his wife materially has led to the entrenched notion of male protection of women. In exchange for such protection, the wife has the reciprocal duty of obedience to her husband, which may lead to the restriction of her right to work, amongst other rights. In contemporary societies where women are increasingly participating in the maintenance of the family, different interpretations of the verse are now becoming more influential than the patriarchal view. Allowing women access to equal opportunities on the labour market and to receive equal remuneration will not only contribute to the overall improvement of society but could also lead to the effective implementation of gender equality as required by international legal standards and religious doctrines.

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Lai, Kwai-fong Wendy, and 賴桂芳. "A study of the roles of Chinese working women in China and Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1995. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31950954.

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King, Amy. ""Freedom in working" : representations of working women in Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton, Ruth, and North and South /." View online, 2009. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211131559899.pdf.

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Allred, Nissa C. Bengtson. "Active Latter-Day Saint Working Mothers: their Effect on their Daughters' Future Plans." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 1994. http://patriot.lib.byu.edu/u?/MTAF,3901.

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