Gender and Industrial Restructuring: An Analysis of Women's Home-Based Work

性别与产业结构调整：女性家庭工作分析

• 批准号: 9309275
• 负责人: Ann Oberhauser
• 金额: $ 7.46万
• 依托单位: West Virginia University Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1993
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1993-09-15 至 1997-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9309275&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Gender; Industrial; Restructuring; Analysis; Women

9309275 OBERHAUSER In areas like the Appalachian states where manufacturing and mining employment has declined in recent decades, households have placed greater reliance on women to generate income. Increasing numbers of women have become active members of the workforce, although many continue to engage in income-generating activities like telephone solicitation, child care, computer-related work, and housecleaning while based at their homes. Because of the informal character of women's housework, relatively little attention has been devoted by scholars to its nature and its role in both social and economic spheres. This research project will constitute a case study of household economic strategies during economic restructuring over the last few decades by examining the nature and role of women's housework in three economically diverse regions of West Virginia. The study will consist of two related parts. In the first part, aggregate data on socio- economic variables like employment, labor-force participation, household composition, and income will be gathered and analyzed to identify general trends and to distinguish among patterns in the different regions. In the second part of the project, 75 women houseworkers will be interviewed at length to provide information about gender relations in the household and women's home-based economic strategies. This project will provide valuable new information about this understudied form of work, and it will expand general understandings of the complex interactions between social and economic requirements and the ways that women simultaneously respond to both sets of requirements. In addition to its contributions to basic knowledge, the results of this project will benefit regional development efforts and community development programs by making them more aware of the potentials for and needs of women working at home. ***

小行星9309275 在阿巴拉契亚州等地区，制造业和采矿业的就业人数近几十年来有所下降，家庭更加依赖妇女创收。 越来越多的妇女已成为劳动力队伍中的积极成员，尽管许多妇女在家中继续从事诸如电话推销、儿童保育、与计算机有关的工作和打扫房屋等创收活动。 由于女性家务劳动的非正式性，学者们对其性质及其在社会和经济领域的作用的关注相对较少。 该研究项目将通过研究西弗吉尼亚州三个经济不同地区妇女家务劳动的性质和作用，对过去几十年经济结构调整期间的家庭经济战略进行个案研究。 这项研究将包括两个相关的部分。 在第一部分，将收集和分析就业、劳动力参与、家庭组成和收入等社会经济变量的汇总数据，以确定总体趋势，并区分不同地区的模式。 在该项目的第二部分，将对75名妇女家务劳动者进行详细访谈，以提供有关家庭中的性别关系和妇女以家庭为基础的经济战略的信息。 该项目将提供关于这种未得到充分研究的工作形式的宝贵的新资料，并将扩大对社会和经济要求之间复杂的相互作用以及妇女同时对这两套要求作出反应的方式的一般理解。 除了对基本知识作出贡献外，该项目的成果还将使区域发展努力和社区发展方案更加了解在家工作的妇女的潜力和需要，从而使它们受益。 ***