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Leime, Aine Ni. "GENDER, HEALTH, AND EXTENDED WORKING LIFE IN IRELAND." Innovation in Aging 3, Supplement_1 (November 2019): S820. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.3023.
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Abstract This presentation is based on a forthcoming book chapter which analyses policies, statistical evidence and qualitative data to investigate the gender and health implications of Extended Working Life policy in Ireland. The qualitative data is from a study conducted in 2018 that investigated attitudes to extended working life and experiences of late life work among sixty older workers, 30 men and 30 women in three different occupations, health care workers/cleaners, teachers and academic faculty.The data were analysed using a lifecourse approach. Workers in physically-demanding occupations, those in precarious employment and women were found to be more likely to be disadvantaged in relation to options for extending their working lives. It is recommended that policies be modified to address the disadvantages faced by these groups of workers.
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Trobitsch, Julie. "Culture in the French Foreign Language Classroom." TEANGA, the Journal of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics 29 (September 20, 2022): 39–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.35903/teanga.v29i.2212.
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In recent years, our globalised world has put the emphasis on improving foreign language learning to make Irish graduates more employable and to make Irish workplaces more welcoming to workers from abroad. However, the achievement of these objectives poses a number of challenges for the Irish education system. In 2022, five years after the publication of Languages Connect: Ireland’s Strategy for Foreign Languages in Education 2017-2026 by the Department of Education and Skills (DES), these challenges have not yet been met. The Institute for Management Development Word Talent Ranking (2021) placed Ireland 37th (out of 64 countries) in relation to foreign language abilities. The uptake of foreign languages at third-level education in Ireland is also low, dropping from a 70% uptake in second-level education to 4% in third-level education (DES, 2017, p.16). In order to gain insights into the place of foreign languages in education in Ireland, this study investigates the place of culture in the French language secondary school Senior Cycle curriculum based on an analysis of selected textbooks, interviews with teachers of French and a survey of pupils studying French at secondary school in Ireland.
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Sweeney, Leigh-Ann, and Sharron FitzGerald. "A case for a health promotion framework: the psychosocial experiences of female, migrant sex workers in Ireland." International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care 13, no. 4 (December 11, 2017): 419–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijmhsc-04-2016-0017.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the barriers preventing women in prostitution from accessing co-ordinated health services in the Republic of Ireland. By examining the experiences of migrant women engaged in prostitution, the research contributes to knowledge pertaining to the psychosocial experiences of female sex workers’ access to healthcare. Design/methodology/approach The study interviewed migrant women across Ireland, using a biographical narrative approach and an adapted voice-centred relational model of analysis to determine the necessity for a health promotion strategy for this demographic. Findings The findings indicate migrant women work primarily indoors, hold precarious legal status and are in Ireland due to processes of globalisation, migration and economic necessity. The women discussed their entry into prostitution and their experiences within prostitution in the context of their psychosocial experiences. Research limitations/implications While the findings are from a small qualitative sample confined to the Republic of Ireland, it is the first study to prioritise migrant sex workers’ psychosocial experiences in Ireland. Practical implications The research concludes education and service development that respects the various social determinants impacting women in prostitution is missing but remains necessary in Ireland. It finds a gendered reform of policies using an ecological framework for health that can address issues of poverty, migration and the global trends of the sex industry. Social implications This means a national review of current services in health, social work and community development fields is timely. Originality/value This paper gives insight into the lives of migrant women involved in the sex industry and can make an important contribution to future research directions and practice in Irish and European prostitution contexts.
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Ní Léime, Á., and Debra Street. "Working later in the USA and Ireland: implications for precariously and securely employed women." Ageing and Society 39, no. 10 (July 17, 2018): 2194–218. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0144686x18000508.
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AbstractPolicies to extend working life (EWL) assume homogeneous workers face similar choices about working longer: this may be difficult for women, workers in physically onerous jobs or in low-paid precarious employment. Work-life trajectories are gendered; women interrupt employment and pension-building to provide care. There is occupational variation in capacities to prolong working lives: physically demanding jobs cause work-related health deficits. The precariously employed cannot contribute regularly to pensions and may face age discrimination. This research provides an inter-occupational and cross-national dimension to EWL research, comparing women teachers and health-care workers in the United States of America (USA) and Republic of Ireland. It documents intra-cohort distinctions that emerge among women when considering educational opportunities and occupational tracks expressed in lifecourse trajectories and accumulated capacities for extended work. Analysis draws on interview data from ten teachers and ten health-care workers in each country, comparing the implications of EWL policies for women workers: in precariousversussecure occupations and occupations with different physical demands. It reveals work-life trajectories leading to poorer financial and health outcomes for older health-care workers, especially in the USA. Most women (regardless of occupation or country) opposed extending working life, with concerns ranging from health status and ability to work to the desire to have healthy years in retirement. The most important distinctions are between the occupational categories considered, rather than cross-national differences. Implications for national and work-place policy and research are considered.
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Bae, Sung-Heui. "Work Hours of Immigrant Versus U.S.-Born Female Workers." Workplace Health & Safety 65, no. 10 (May 9, 2017): 478–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2165079916686358.
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This study was a secondary analysis of cross-sectional data extracted from the 2011-2012 California Health Interview Survey. Data from 8,931 full-time (i.e., 21 hours or more per week) women workers aged 18 to 85 years were analyzed to examine the nature and prevalence of immigrant female workers’ work hours, overtime, and related factors in the United States compared to U.S.-born female workers. Results showed that foreign-born female workers did not work longer hours than U.S.-born female workers. Foreign-born female workers who reported poor health worked longer hours than did their U.S.-born counterparts. Foreign-born female workers who were self-employed or worked in family businesses tended to work longer hours than did those women who worked for private companies or nonprofit organizations.
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Léime, Áine Ní. "Older women public sector workers in Ireland: Decisions about retirement timing." Journal of Women & Aging 29, no. 5 (August 23, 2016): 392–404. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08952841.2016.1196079.
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Lestari, Sulistyani Eka. "Protection of constitutional rights against Indonesian women workers." Linguistics and Culture Review 5, S1 (September 9, 2021): 710–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.21744/lingcure.v5ns1.1458.
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Female Labor generates foreign exchange. Objectives: want to know among other things: (1). TKW as a supporter of foreign exchange (2). Protection of constitutional rights abroad (3). The concept of protection of female workers outside. (4). Forms of legislation and international agreements. Method: With a qualitative approach in developing research to reveal the truth systematically, it is done through (a). Type of Research (b). Research approach and (c). Data collection technique. Conclusion: (1). Law Number 39 of 2004 concerning the Placement and Protection of Workers Abroad (2). Women Workers as elements of the State, must continue to have their rights as citizens as regulated in the constitution (3). The rights of every citizen, everyone has the right to be free from discriminatory treatment, and has the right to protection.
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Miller, Jennifer. "Her Fight is Your Fight: “Guest Worker” Labor Activism in the Early 1970s West Germany." International Labor and Working-Class History 84 (2013): 226–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s014754791300029x.
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AbstractWhen the postwar economic boom came to a crashing halt in early 1970s West Germany, foreign “guest workers,” often the first to be laid off, bore the brunt of high inflation, rising prices, declining growth rates, widespread unemployment, and social discontent. Following the economic downturn and the ensuing crisis of stagflation, workers' uprisings became increasingly common in West Germany. The summer of 1973 saw a sharp increase in workers' activism broadly, including a wave of “women's strikes.” However, historical attention to the role of foreign workers, especially of foreign female workers, within these strikes has been limited. This article presents a case study of wildcat strikes spearheaded by foreign, female workers in the early 1970s, focusing specifically on the strikes at the Pierburg Autoparts Factory in Neuss, West Germany. For these foreign women, activism in the early 1970s had a larger significance than just securing better working conditions. Indeed, striking foreign workers were no longer negotiating temporary problems; they were signaling that they were there to stay. Foreign workers' sustained and successful activism challenged the imposed category of “guest worker,” switching the emphasis from guest to worker. Ultimately, the Pierburg strikes' outcomes benefited all workers—foreign and German, male and female—and had grave implications for wage discrimination across West Germany as well.
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Kaya, Omur, and Edna Erez. "Migration, Agency, and the Sex Industry: Practitioners’ Perspectives on Foreign Sex Workers in Turkey." International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology 62, no. 10 (September 5, 2017): 2954–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306624x17726514.
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The article presents the political, economic, and sociocultural factors that make Turkey an attractive destination for foreign sex workers, and reviews trends in official statistics of arrested traffickers, rescued victims, and deportation of migrant illegal sex workers. In-depth interviews of 20 law enforcement and nongovernmental organizations staff members, who in the course of their work come into close contact with foreign sex workers, shed light on the statistics. The interview data provide insights into the structure of the Turkish sex market, the factors that bring foreign women to work in this market, and the impact of legal reforms on the circumstances of foreign sex workers. The article concludes with the implications of the findings for public policy.
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Hill, Myrtle. "Women in the Irish Protestant Foreign Missions c. 1873-1914: Representations and Motivations." Studies in Church History. Subsidia 13 (2000): 170–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0143045900002854.
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The importance of women’s contribution to foreign missionary work has now been well established, with a range of studies, particularly from Canada, America, and Britain, exploring the topic from both religious and feminist perspectives. The role of Irishwomen, however, has neither been researched in any depth nor recorded outside denominational histories in which they are discussed, if at all, only marginally, and only in relation to their supportive contribution to the wider mission of the Church. The motivations, aspirations, experiences, and achievements of the hundreds of women who left Ireland to do God’s work in India, China, Africa, or Egypt are yet to be explored. My intention in this paper is to discuss their work and the ways in which they have been represented in the context of socio-economic developments in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Ireland, to determine how the interaction of class, gender, and religion helped shape their missionary endeavours.
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Leime, Aine Ni. "WORKING LONGER FOR ACADEMICS IN THE U.S. AND IRELAND: A GENDERED LIFECOURSE ANALYSIS." Innovation in Aging 3, Supplement_1 (November 2019): S129. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.469.
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Abstract Many governments including the US and Ireland have been advocating longer working lives for all workers to ensure pension sustainability in the light of population ageing. Policy changes encouraging increased social security/state pensions age reflect this. However, there has been limited investigation of how the gender implications of these policy changes. While longer working lives may be attractive for some workers, there is evidence that women and men have profoundly different work-life trajectories and women may be more financially disadvantaged approaching retirement age. There is a need to explore how this affects their ability and/or desire to continue working past traditional retirement age and their financial security. This presentation is based on analysis of evidence from an EU-funded cross-national research project involving work-life history interviews conducted with forty older workers in academia in the US and Ireland in 2016 and 2017. A lifecourse approach is used to analyse interview data from ten male and ten female academics in Ireland and ten male and ten female academics in the US, aged 50 or over. Participants discussed early influences, work-life history and health concerns. The paper uses a cumulative disadvantage perspective to analyse how gender, family and health trajectories across the life course affect and can limit options around late work and retirement. It concludes that gender differences regarding norms of care-giving are important and that extending working life is more likely to be caused by financial necessity for women. The implications for future research and policy are discussed.
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Jamieson, Suzanne. "Feminist theory, globalization and comparative labour law: women workers in Australia and Ireland." International Journal of Human Resource Management 15, no. 3 (May 2004): 459–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0958519042000181197.
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Sweeney, Leigh-Ann, Leonard Taylor, and Michal Molcho. "Sex workers access to health and social care services: A social justice response." Irish Journal of Sociology 28, no. 3 (July 14, 2020): 333–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0791603520937279.
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This research explores service providers’ views on the barriers that prevent women in the sex work industry in Ireland from accessing co-ordinated health services. A purposive sample of eight service providers in the field of women’s health and social care in the West of Ireland were selected and interviewed for this study. The service providers were asked about their perception of the barriers of sex workers accessing health and social care services. Using thematic analysis, three key themes were identified: (1) lack of knowledge of women’s involvement in sex work; (2) identified barriers to health services; and (3) legislative and policy barriers to providing supportive services. While the service providers acknowledged that they do not knowingly provide services for sex workers, they all recognise that some of their service users are at risk of, and potentially are, involved in sex work. Yet, they were able to identify some of the barriers sex workers face when accessing their services. All these barriers were the result to the services’ limited capacity to support women engaging in sex work. At the time of data collection, the legislative context meant that selling sex under certain conditions was outside the law. This study highlights the consequences that criminalisation can have on the health of sex workers and the need for a paradigm shift in existing health and social care services. In this paper, we propose that a social justice rather than a criminal justice approach has the potential to address sex workers’ right to access appropriate health care. This paper gives due recognition to marginalised women, and advocates for better provision of services for women in the sex industry, while considering the new legislation of 2017.
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Bari, Lauren. "Who are solo self-employed women? Analysis of the trends and characteristics of solo self-employed women in Ireland 2003–2019." Irish Journal of Management 40, no. 1 (July 1, 2020): 42–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ijm-2021-0006.
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Abstract Solo or ‘freelance’ self-employment is becoming a more popular form of self-employment in the labour market. In some jurisdictions such as the UK, this growth is being attributed to rising numbers of women – and women with children in particular - seeking the flexibility and autonomy of freelance work as a response to shortages of flexibility in wage-and-salaried employment. Yet little is known about how these trends might be occurring in Ireland and who might be represented in this small but growing cohort of workers. This research uses Labour Force Survey data to explore trends in female solo self-employment in Ireland between 2003 and 2019 and key variables are drawn upon to develop a profile of this underexplored labour market group. The analysis highlights that while growth in solo self-employment rates has been slow and numbers still relatively small, it is increasingly made up of highly educated and professional women in relatively high-paid sectors opting for flexible working arrangements.
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Carey, Margaret. "Gender and Power: Boys Will Be Boys and So Will Girls." Irish Journal of Sociology 4, no. 1 (May 1994): 105–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/079160359400400106.
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This paper examines the treatment of women by men in two areas of male-dominated employment: specific professions and non- traditional ‘manual’ employment such as construction, transport, and other trade workers. Based on data from secondary sources, and in-depth interviews with non-traditionally employed women in Northern Ireland, the paper is divided into three main parts. The first section assesses the extent of harassment and discrimination towards women in male- dominated professions; the second provides a similar account of the treatment of non-traditionally employed women in Northern Ireland. Evidence suggests that there is a dichotomy in the treatment of women between the two areas discussed - given that men and women in ‘manual’ employment seem to sustain a more ‘peer-like’ relationship than their counterparts in some male-dominated professions. Thus, in the third section of the paper, while attempting to avoid the trap of dualism, I posit reasons for the existence of such a dichotomy.
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Taylor, Larry W., Thomas J. Hyclak, Piotr Sedlak, and Vera A. Adamchik. "Foreign ownership and gender differences in pay: causal evidence from a sample of Polish workers." International Journal of Contemporary Management 60, no. 1 (February 27, 2024): 75–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ijcm-2024-0003.
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Abstract The study attempts to estimate the causal relationship between foreign company ownership and wages that is driven by ownership per se, and not by observable or unobservable worker and firm characteristics. We employ proprietary data from surveys conducted by Sedlak & Sedlak, a major Polish HR consulting firm, with our pooled cross-section data set comprising over 300,000 men and 250,000 women working in the Polish labor market between 2013 and 2017. The foreign-firm wage premium is estimated by several techniques, ranging from ordinary least squares and two-stage least squares to a recently developed frequentist RX-2SLS econometric procedure that relaxes IV assumptions via the exclusion restriction. Our major findings are: (1) regardless of gender, Polish workers employed by majority foreign capital firms earn a significant wage premium; and (2) the foreign-firm wage premium is substantially larger for women, suggesting that the wage policies used by foreign-owned firms in Poland have an equalizing effect on the gender wage gap.
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Stasiulis, Daiva, and Abigail B. Bakan. "Negotiating Citizenship: The Case of Foreign Domestic Workers in Canada." Feminist Review 57, no. 1 (September 1997): 112–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/014177897339687.
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This paper argues that most conceptualizations of citizenship limit the purview of the discourse to static categories. ‘Citizenship’ is commonly seen as an ideal type, presuming a largely legal relationship between an inidividual and a single nation-state – more precisely only one type of nation-state, the advanced capitalist post-war model. Alternatively, we suggest a re-conceptualization of citizenship as a negotiated relationship, one which is subject therefore to change, and acted upon collectively within social, political and economic relations of conflict. This dynamic process of negotiation takes place within a context which is shaped by gendered, racial and class structures and ideologies; it also involves international hierarchies among states. Citizenship is therefore negotiated on global as well as national levels. This conceptualization is demonstrated by way of identifying one particular set of experiences of negotiated citizenship, involving foreign domestic workers in Canada. As non-citizens originating from Third World conditions, this is a case involving women of colour workers, highly prone to abusive conditions, and under the direction of employers who are more affluent First World citizens and predominantly white women. Original survey data based on interviews with Caribbean and Filipino domestic workers in Canada are used to demonstrate the varied, creative and effective strategies of two distinctive groups of non-citizens as they attempt to negotiate citizenship rights in restrictive national and international conditions.
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Ortuzar, Jimena. "Performing the “Foreign Maid” in the Global Market." TDR/The Drama Review 62, no. 1 (March 2018): 98–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/dram_a_00721.
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YouTube videos of migrant domestic workers made by private recruitment agencies reproduce Southeast Asian women as transnational subjects whose mobility across borders is largely dependent on their performance of the ideal “foreign maid” — a figure that has become central to the maintenance of middle-class lifestyles in global cities across Asia and beyond.
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Singh, Pradip Man, Neelam Joshi, and Anita Prajapati. "A Study on Depression in Returnee Female Migrant Workers." Journal of BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences 3, no. 1 (July 26, 2020): 50–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jbpkihs.v3i1.30321.
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Introduction: Women seeking foreign employment have been rising in Nepal. Changing scenarios, like: household structure and women's desire to work outside have provided opportunity for women from countries like Nepal to become independent and give financial support in family. For female migrant workers, it is not easy to adjust to new country because of difference in socio-cultural aspect, poor working and living condition. Many of them suffer from health issues including psychiatric morbidity.
Objective: To estimate the prevalence of depression and the socio-demographic profiles of returnee female Nepalese migrant workers.
Methods: A descriptive study was undertaken in Emergency Shelter House of an NGO, among returnee female migrant workers using semi-structured questionnaire, interview and Hamilton’s Depression Rating Scale (HAM-D). Ethical clearance and consent were taken.
Results: The HAM-D score showed that 71.5% of the subjects were depressed which was analyzed with various socio-demographic profiles and the factors of foreign employment. A strong significance was seen with residential area (p= 0.004). The level of depression was not statistically significant with age, education, marital status, earning of husband and monthly household income.
Conclusion: Depressive symptoms were common among returnee female migrant workers. Regular mental health assessment of returnee women migrant workers should be done. This will help to minimize the psychiatric morbidity among them.
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Eng, Julia CL, Joyce BT Er, Carrie SY Wan, YK Lim, Ida Ismail-Pratt, and Joseph SY Ng. "Cervical screening in foreign domestic workers in Singapore." Annals of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore 50, no. 2 (February 28, 2021): 135–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.47102/annals-acadmedsg.2020293.
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Introduction: Globally, cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer in women, with about 85% occurring in low-middle income countries (LMIC) and an age-standardised incidence rate of more than 15 per 100,000. It is largely preventable through HPV vaccination and cervical cancer screening. In Singapore, 18% of the foreign domestic workforce hail from Indonesia, the Philippines, Myanmar, and India. However, there is no data on preinvasive cervical disease and cervical cancer in foreign domestic workers (FDWs) and the aim of this pilot programme is to determine the baseline screen positive rate of high-grade intraepithelial in this population. Methodology: A total of 322 FDWs were offered HPV screening through the Helping Our Helper (HOH) pilot programme. Data from this pilot program was analysed and reported using simple descriptive statistics. Results: Out of the 322 FDWs who registered for HPV screening, 68.6% participated. There was a 22.2% screen-positive rate; 10% of those who screened positive for high-risk HPV had histologically confirmed high-grade cervical intraepithelial neoplasia. This result is similar to other data on cervical cancer screening in Singaporeans. This pilot project screened less than 1% of the eligible FDWs in Singapore. Discussion: The findings of this pilot program suggest that there is public health value in providing cervical cancer screening to FDWs. Improving cervical cancer screening by increasing awareness and including routine cervical cancer screening as part of the employment medical examination should be studied. Keywords: Cervical cancer, CIN 2, colposcopy, HPV, HSIL, LSIL
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Lowell, B. Lindsay. "The foreign born in the American healthcare workforce: Trends in this century’s first decade." Migration Letters 10, no. 2 (May 31, 2013): 180–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.33182/ml.v10i2.142.
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This study describes the native and foreign born in US healthcare in the first decade of this century. Immigrant women are more likely than natives to be employed in long term care where they are most concentrated among professional practitioners and lesser skilled direct care workers. The foreign born are similar to natives in their average age, education and the dominance of women. They differ in being more likely to reside in metropolitan areas and in central cities. The foreign born earn more than natives and this appears to be both significant and inexplicable by way of differences in experience or education.
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Hovell, Melbourne F., Carol Sipan, C. Richard Hofstetter, Barbara C. DuBois, Andrew Krefft, John Conway, Monica Jasis, and Hope L. Isaacs. "Occupational Health Risks for Mexican Women: The Case of the Maquiladora along the Mexican-United States Border." International Journal of Health Services 18, no. 4 (October 1988): 617–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/1gbv-09qv-vbpp-ubt9.
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International reports of morbidity among female workers in Mexico's border zone have raised concern about the occupational health of female workers in maquiladora plants (foreign-owned border industries with special tariff benefits). Commentators have suggested that U.S. industries may be exploiting workers by transferring work to nations with less stringent health and safety regulation through the maquiladora program. Using data from a larger evaluation of the effectiveness of Project Concern and a specially developed questionnaire, this study investigated the extent to which female workers reported higher morbidity rates than women with other employment and women not employed outside the home in seven colonias (communities) in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. Results showed essentially no difference in many short-term self-reported symptoms of illness among maquiladora workers and two other groups. Women who worked exclusively in the home reported the greatest number of symptoms. These results suggest that additional primary care services may be needed for women who have primarily domestic responsibilities. Additional research is needed to assess the risks for long-latency morbidity.
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Drew, Eileen. "Part-Time Working in Ireland: Meeting the Flexibility Needs of Women Workers or of Employers?" Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 18, no. 1 (1992): 95. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/25512899.
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Paksi, Arie Kusuma, and Pebria Prakarsa Renta. "Indonesia’s pro-people foreign policy: the protection of Indonesian women migrant workers in Malaysia in 2022." Otoritas : Jurnal Ilmu Pemerintahan 13, no. 2 (August 31, 2023): 203–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.26618/ojip.v13i2.8989.
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This study investigates the Indonesian government's strategies to safeguard its informal sector in Malaysia, which has experienced considerable human rights violations and exploitation. Such incidents breach both the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and Law No. 18 of 2017 on the Indonesian migrant workers' protection. Utilizing the pro-people foreign policy theory and the citizen protection concept, this research explores the government's responses to these issues as a protective measure for its citizens. Employing a qualitative descriptive method, data was gathered through library studies. The findings reveal that the Indonesian government, in its bid to protect indonesian women migrant workers in malaysia by 2022, has publicly criticized the Malaysian government, implemented a Moratorium, and pushed for immediate bilateral meetings between the two nations. Hence, the study concludes that these efforts have positively influenced the protection of indonesian women migrant workers in malaysia in 2022
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Bibikova, Olga. "ON SYSTEMIC RACISM IN THE LEBANON SOCIETY." Russia and the moslem world, no. 2 (2022): 77–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.31249/rmw/2022.02.07.
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On the example of Lebanon, the features of the functioning of the system of hiring foreign workers (kafala) in the Arab countries are considered. In Lebanon, this system applies to domestic workers, especially women. However, employers often do not fulfill their obligations under the contract. In addition, the economic crisis that broke out in the country made its own adjustments.
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Omans, Katie. "The Belfast Boycott: consumerism and gender in revolutionary Ireland (1920–1922)." Irish Historical Studies 46, no. 169 (May 2022): 101–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ihs.2022.5.
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AbstractThe Belfast Boycott was a protest designed to dislodge loyalism in Northern Ireland, punish its adherents for perceived intolerance toward Catholics and end Irish partition. The boycott was set off by the expulsion of several thousand Catholic workers from employment in Belfast in July 1920. A total boycott of all goods coming from Belfast was implemented by the Dáil in September 1920. Boycotting provided Irish nationalists with an alternative to violent retaliation that allowed for the participation of a wider segment of the Irish population and diaspora in the revolutionary movement. However, such mass mobilisation meant that nationalists had to entrust their plan for an independent Ireland to a segment of the population that they overwhelmingly viewed as politically and economically uninformed: Irish women. The boycott offers a new vantage point from which to view the actions of and attitudes towards women and the role of mass mobilisation during the revolution. This article explores nationalists’ conceptions of Irish identity, the intersection between consumerism and patriotism, and the role that women played as both political and economic actors throughout the Irish revolutionary period.
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Maskey, Rekha. "Remittance: It’s Impact and Utilization Trend: A Case Study of Returned Migrant Women of Kathmandu Valley." Voice of Teacher 6, no. 1 (December 24, 2021): 151–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/vot.v6i1.44076.
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Foreign Labor migration has lured to Nepalese and huge numbers of youths left the country daily for jobs abroad. Mainly unemployment is the cause that has encouraged people for foreign labour migration on one hand; it too has been a global issue on the other. With globalization and liberalization, the trend of going people from one place to another has intensified. Today, foreign employment among both male and female has become a significant aspect in strengthening the country's economy. The study entitled as Remittance: Its Impact and Utilization Trend (A Case Study of Returned Migrant Women of Kathmandu Valley) has been conducted to analyze the role of remittance. For this noble cause, researcher has adapted exploratory and descriptive research design where purposive sampling has been applied along with proper interpretation of both qualitative and quantitative data. This study has tried to provide a clear picture of contribution of Nepalese Women migrant Workers for supporting their families. The significant factor of remittances and changes felt by the migrants are highlighted throughout the text. Researcher hopes that the description, findings, conclusion and recommendation of the research will be useful to the agencies which are programming on the issues, academicians, students and others and will increase consciousness of the migrant workers, their families and the agencies which support women to send them to foreign lands safely.
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O'Sullivan, Kevin. "‘Ah, Ireland, the caring nation’: foreign aid and Irish state identity in the long 1970s." Irish Historical Studies 38, no. 151 (May 2013): 476–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021121400001607.
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On a plane leaving Baidoa refugee camp in Somalia in late 1992, an Arab doctor offered John O'Shea, head of the relief agency Goal, a glimpse of how the Irish were viewed in that civil war-ravaged state. ‘Ah, Ireland’, he remarked on learning of O'Shea's country of origin, ‘the caring nation’. He had reason to be complimentary. In addition to the aid agencies and aid workers involved in the ongoing relief effort, Somalia had recently hosted two highprofile visitors from the Irish state. In August 1992 the minister for Foreign Affairs, David Andrews, spent three days in the country to view at first-hand its escalating civil war. He was followed less than two months later by President Mary Robinson, whose arrival at Baidoa on 2 October marked the beginning of a tour – the first by a Western head of state – of the feeding stations and refugee camps that provided succour to those displaced by the conflict.
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FREIRE, TIAGO. "HOW THE 1978 FOREIGN DOMESTIC WORKERS LAW INCREASED THE LABOR SUPPLY OF SINGAPOREAN WOMEN." Singapore Economic Review 61, no. 05 (December 2016): 1550075. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0217590815500757.
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In 1978, Singapore became the first country to introduce legislation allowing foreign domestic workers to work in the country under special visas. Although Singapore is often cited in the literature as a success story, no studies have quantified the impact of this legislation. In this paper, we use data derived from the Singapore Yearbook of Manpower Statistics between 1974 and 1985 to determine the influence of the 1978 legislation on the labor supply of Singaporean women. We find that the labor supply of women affected by this policy increased by between 3.1% and 6.2%.
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Rachmawati, Budi. "THE EFFECT OF ENGLISH AND CANTONESE SPEAKING ABILITY OF THE INDONESIAN FEMALE MIGRANT WORKERS IN HONGKONG TOWARD PEOPLE AROUND THEM." Journal of English Language and Literature (JELL) 3, no. 01 (October 4, 2018): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.37110/jell.v3i01.60.
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The globalization era, requires some life aspects to be mastered. One of the aspects is the ability to communicate among others in any languages as communication tool to interact with the world community. The fact that Indonesia migration of labors had a big number of portion since the Dutch East Indies Government, makes the mastery of foreign language important. Most of the migrant workers of Indonesia are women. They migrate abroad because of economic difficulties. For that, they are willing to become domestic helper to improve the economic conditions of their families. Having enough and compatibel skills are very important to minimize the problems that arise with the fellow and people around them. The training for these migrant workers are conducted by Indonesian Manpower Supplier (PJTKI) where they can get such Training Center-Foreign Affairs (BLK –LN). By doing the training, the migrant workers will get some skills like basic skill and interpersonal skills. Female migrant workers get English and cantonese language, especially for those who work in Hongkong. The training is done in 4 months including daily foreign language speaking practice. The objective of the training are to help the female migrant workers in bargaining position and more appreciate existence
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Shepard, Christopher. "A liberalisation of Irish social policy? Women’s organisations and the campaign for women police in Ireland, 1915–57." Irish Historical Studies 36, no. 144 (November 2009): 564–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021121400005885.
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For much of the twentieth century, Ireland was quite unusual in comparison with other western European nations in its exclusion of women from policing. By the time women were allowed to join the national police force, the Garda Síochána, in 1957, women were already established in the police forces of Britain, Germany and France, as well as that of Northern Ireland. Further afield, women were already employed in police forces in Poland, New Zealand and the U.S. The appointment of women police was a major demand of feminists, moral campaigners and social reformers during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, all of whom sought better protections for women. As in the U.K., U.S. and many European countries, women’s organisations in the Irish Free State were to the forefront of the debate over the need for women police. Beginning with the Irish Women’s Suffrage and Local Government Association (I.W.S.L.G.A.) in 1915, women’s organisations such as the National Council of Women, Joint Committee of Women’s Societies and Social Workers (J.C.W.S.S.W.), and the Catholic Women’s Federation campaigned relentlessly for nearly half a century in the face of governmental indifference and obstruction. When the first class of ‘experimental’ women police emerged in 1958 from the Garda training college in Templemore, County Tipperary, women’s organisations hailed it as a victory.
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Delay, Cara. "Wrong for womankind and the nation: Anti-abortion discourses in 20th-century Ireland." Journal of Modern European History 17, no. 3 (June 20, 2019): 312–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1611894419854660.
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This article asks how anti-abortion discourses and dialogues engaged with ideas about motherhood, national identity, and women’s reproductive decision-making in 20th-century Ireland, particularly from 1967, when abortion was decriminalized in Britain, to 1983, when Ireland’s Eighth Amendment became the law of the land. It assesses the ways in which ‘pro-life’ advocates rejected the notion that women were independent adults capable of reproductive decision-making. Indeed, throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, anti-choice activists defined all Irish women as innately innocent, moral, and naturally desirous of domesticity and motherhood. Abortion, they argued, was encouraged, coerced, and even forced by outsiders or ‘others’. The arguments of some anti-abortion activists utilized meaningful themes in Ireland’s colonial and nationalist history, including the historical notion of Irish sacrificial motherhood, the depiction of Irish women as young and vulnerable, and the explanation of abortion as foreign, anti-Irish, and reminiscent of British colonial repression.
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Kanchana, Radhika. "Oman: Recent Developments in the Protection of the Rights of Migrant Workers and of Women." Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law Online 22, no. 1 (June 27, 2023): 298–303. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22112987-20230043.
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Abstract This survey is a review listing some key legislative and executive measures of the government of Oman in the year 2021–2022, which have relevance to mainly the rights of the migrant workers. Further, and in less detail, this survey also refers to some of the developments pertinent to the rights of women living in Oman. However, more generally these rights are less relevant to women who are not Omani nationals. Oman is a member country of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). The GCC comprises six states in the Arab-Gulf region: Oman, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Kuwait, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. These oil-producing states have a significant proportion of foreign workforce in the population. Foreign workers work mostly in the private sector and are also residents in the host countries. At 46.5 per cent, Oman has a relatively lower proportion of migrants in its population among the GCC members (UN DESA, 2020). Therefore, a broader spectrum of governments’ measures relating to the issues like labour, entry and residence, and ownership of property or business touch the lives of the foreign/migrant workers or expatriates in the Gulf country. Governments’ initiatives targeting domestic workers are relevant also for women because they comprise the majority in this group. The survey notes that most of the governmental activity in Oman in the past year largely concern new laws or amendments of the existing legislation and regulations linked to labour and residency matters. Some of the more relevant ones that the survey has selected here confirms this. It also marks the period post the pandemic, which had posed considerable economic challenge for the government. Hence, as also some neighbouring Gulf countries, Oman has shown a balance of measures. On the one hand, to revive its economic dynamism and competitiveness by facilitating more ease and benefits to attract and retain foreign labour and investment in the country. On the other hand, with measures such as increased nationalization effort and support expressly favouring the national workforce to boost their more active participation in the labour market. The new labour law declared by the Omani government and its signing of the Maritime Labour Convention are a few notable highlights. The survey has essentially drawn on the government’s documents and announcements as available in English or translated text, in addition to information in the press and other relevant sources.
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Wahyudi, Yustinus, Natalia Puji Rahayu, and Gatot Sasongko. "LIVELIHOOD STRATEGY OF FORMER FEMALE MIGRANT WORKERS." Jurnal REP (Riset Ekonomi Pembangunan) 6, no. 2 (October 1, 2021): 168–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.31002/rep.v6i2.3662.
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The life of female former migrant workers after working abroad is an interesting phenomenon to study. The contradiction in the conditions of life when working as a TKI and after working demands a strategy to maintain its survival. The purpose of this study is to analyze the survival strategies of women migrant workers after not working abroad. This type of research is a qualitative descriptive study and was conducted in Sarimulyo Village, Kebonagung District, Demak Regency. The type of data used is primary data. The technique of collecting data by interviewing direct sources. The research findings show that women former migrant workers use the livelihood strategy, namely human capital by relying on foreign language skills to teach lessons and courses as well as baking skills. Natural capital by managing rice fields and gardens. Social capital by borrowing from relatives and cooperatives. Financial capital using savings. Physical capital is by utilizing the paddy slip tool left by our parents and cake-making equipment to make pastries.
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England, K., and B. Stiell. "“They Think You're as Stupid as Your English is”: Constructing Foreign Domestic Workers in Toronto." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 29, no. 2 (February 1997): 195–215. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a290195.
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In Canada, paid domestic work is often associated with (im)migrant women from a variety of countries of origin. We critically analyse Canada's foreign domestic worker programmes, noting the shifting definitions of which nationalities should participate. We note how gendered, racialised, and classed constructions of national identities infuse these programmes. We then turn to an empirical analysis of how foreign domestic workers are constructed in Toronto, where demand is the highest in Canada. In particular, we investigate how the practices of domestic worker placement agencies reinforce images about which national identities supposedly have qualities that make them best suited to certain types of domestic work. Finally, we explore how domestic workers' constructions of their occupation are interwoven with their own national identities, the (partial) internalisation of others' images of them, and how they define themselves in relation to other domestic workers.
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McGarry, Kathryn, and Sharron A. FitzGerald. "The politics of injustice: Sex-working women, feminism and criminalizing sex purchase in Ireland." Criminology & Criminal Justice 19, no. 1 (November 24, 2017): 62–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1748895817743285.
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This article interrogates the discursive framing of recent law and policy debates on criminalizing sex purchase in Ireland and the implications this has for sex workers’ political voice. Drawing on Nancy Fraser’s work on the political dimensions of justice, we look at how Irish neo-abolitionists, through their Turn Off the Red Light (TORL) campaign, map and delimit access to political space and consequently misframe, misrecognize and misrepresent the ‘problem’ of sex work and sex-working women. We employ the methodological framework suggested by Carol Bacchi’s What’s the Problem Represented to Be (WPR) approach to explore how TORL campaigners exercise and manage frame-setting in law and policy contexts to deny all ‘other’ voices parity of participation in political space. We argue these misframing strategies reflect meta-political injustices of misrepresentation.
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Briones-Vozmediano, Erica, Luis Alejandro Rodríguez-Guerrero, Agustín González-Rodríguez, Sergio Andrés-Cabello, Maria del Mar Jiménez-Lasserrotte, Jose Tomás Mateos, and Elena Ronda-Pérez. "P-512 THE WORKING CONDITIONS OF AGRICULTURAL WORKERS FROM MAGHREB AND SUBSAHARAN AFRICA IN SPAIN. THE AGROMISALUD PROJECT." Occupational Medicine 74, Supplement_1 (July 1, 2024): 0. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/occmed/kqae023.1272.
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Abstract Introduction In Spanish agriculture, thousands of foreign workers are hired each year to collect fruits and vegetables. The AGROMISALUD project aims to describe the working conditions of agricultural workers from Magreb and Subsaharan Africa in Spain. Methods A multicentre cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted in 4 Spanish regions in 2022. A 43-question questionnaire was designed. Descriptive statistics (frequencies and percentages) were calculated in STATA.13. Results and discussion 623 agricultural workers (65% men, 34% women) from 21 countries on the African continent were surveyed: 62% North African and 38% sub-Saharan. 40% of the men and 88% of the women were from Morocco. 14% (19%men,5%women) of the sample used chemicals, flammable liquids and gases. 29% (35% men,7%women) had received information or courses on occupational hazards from the company or employer. 46% (60%men,18%women) lifted, carried, or pushed heavy objects of more than 20 kg or more manually at least 10 times a day. 48% (61%men,21%women) did not have the necessary protection such as gloves, masks, helmets, and 54% (50%men, 61%women) did not know their rights and responsibilities about their health and safety at work. Conclusion Migrant agricultural workers in Spain need to receive both the required material to prevent injuries at work and information and/or courses on occupational hazards from the company or employee.
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Vu, Thi Thanh. "Vietnamese Migrant Women Working Abroad: Risks and Challenges for Accessing Support Services." DEMIS. Demographic research 1, no. 1 (2021): 71–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.19181/demis.2021.1.1.8.
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Today Vietnam is a country with second largest number of migrant workers in Southeast Asia. Every year a great number of Vietnamese women migrate abroad by various ways for earning a living. They might experience many risks such as labor exploitation, violence and human trafficking. Basing on qualitative data collected from in-depth interviews and focus-group discussions with return women migrant workers and with provincial authority agencies in 5 provinces in Vietnam, the article reflects the risks faced by women migrant workers and their limitation of accessing help services during the time working overseas. The study also examines the ways that Vietnamese women migrate abroad. The survey proved that Vietnamese female migrant workers generally find illegal migration riskier, but easier and cheaper because it does not require a command of foreign languages, vocational skills or costly fees. Illegal migrants do not have to sign any contracts, so they can return home whenever they want. However, illegal women migrant workers experience various risks including being captured by the police, being unable to work freely and inability to access official migrant support services. The author argues that in order to increase the ability of women migrant workers to avoid risks and access support services when working abroad, it is necessary to strengthen communication channels, which would help people to know more about reliable services to send migrants to work overseas. Trainings and professional orientation workshops before departure should include more information about possible risks and the ways to find accessible support in Vietnam as well as in the destination countries. KEYWORDS:
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Cohen, Marilyn. "Survival Strategies in Female-Headed Households: Linen Workers in Tullylish, County Down, 1901." Journal of Family History 17, no. 3 (June 1992): 303–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/036319909201700305.
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Recent scholarship reveals that women's employment patterns in the nineteenth century were more complex than the prevailing family wage ideology might suggest. This was especially true for those women living in female-headed households. Although female-headed households represented a sizeable minority of the working class, there has been little systematic analysis of them in Ireland. This article addresses this gap and contributes to a more differentiated perspective by examining several survival strategies utilized by female-headed households to ensure independence in the Ulster parish of Tullylish, in 1900, including employment patterns, household formation, marriage patterns, literacy, and schooling.
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Harvey, Elizabeth. "LAST RESORT OR KEY RESOURCE? WOMEN WORKERS FROM THE NAZI-OCCUPIED SOVIET TERRITORIES, THE REICH LABOUR ADMINISTRATION AND THE GERMAN WAR EFFORT." Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 26 (September 29, 2016): 149–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0080440116000098.
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ABSTRACTForeign labour was an essential resource for the Nazi war economy: by September 1944, around six million civilian labourers from across Europe were working in the Reich. Any initial readiness on the part of the peoples of Nazi-occupied Europe to volunteer for work in the Reich had quickly dissipated as the harsh and often vicious treatment of foreign workers became known. The abuse and exploitation of foreign forced labourers by the Nazi regime is well documented. Less well understood is why women formed such a substantial proportion of the labour recruited or forcibly deported from occupied eastern Europe: in September 1944, a third of Polish forced labourers and just over over half of Soviet civilian forced labourers were women. This article explores the factors influencing the demand for and the supply of female labour from the Nazi-occupied territories of the Soviet Union, particularly after the appointment of Fritz Sauckel as Plenipotentiary for Labour in March 1942. It explores the attitudes of labour officials towards these women workers and shows how Nazi gender politics and the Nazi hierarchy of race intersected in the way they were treated.
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Kanchana, Radhika. "Bahrain: Recent Developments in the Protection of the Rights of Migrant Workers and of Women." Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law Online 22, no. 1 (June 27, 2023): 180–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22112987-20230032.
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Abstract This survey reviews some of the key legislative and executive measures of the government of Bahrain in the year 2021–2022, which have relevance to mainly the rights of the migrant workers. Further, and in less detail, this survey also refers to some of the developments pertinent to the rights of women living in Bahrain. However, more generally these rights are less relevant to women who are not Bahraini nationals. Bahrain is a member country of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). The GCC comprises six states in the Arab-Gulf region: Oman, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Kuwait, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. These oil-producing states have significant proportion of foreign workforce in the population. Foreign workers work mostly in the private sector and are also residents in the host countries. At 55 per cent, Bahrain has a relatively lower proportion of migrants in its population among the GCC members (UN DESA, 2020). Therefore, a broader spectrum of governments’ measures relating to the issues like labour, entry and residence, and ownership of property or business touch the lives of the foreign/migrant workers or expatriates in the Gulf country. Governments’ initiatives targeting domestic workers are relevant also for women because they comprise the majority in this group. The survey notes that most of the governmental activity in Bahrain in the past year largely concern new laws or amendments of the existing legislation and regulations linked to labour and residency matters. Some of the more relevant ones that the survey has selected here confirms this. It also marks the period post the pandemic, which had posed considerable economic challenge for the government. Hence, as also some neighbouring Gulf countries, Bahrain has shown a balance of measures. On the one hand, to revive its economic dynamism and competitiveness, measures have been taken aimed at facilitating more ease and benefits to attract and retain foreign labour and investment in the country. On the other hand, measures have been taken that expressly favour the national workforce in order to boost their more active participation in the labour market and to support increased nationalisation efforts. The Bahraini government’s introduction of new labour reforms replacing its Flexi-work permit programme, initiatives to enforce the Wage Protection System, and easing of residence permits are a few notable highlights. The survey has essentially drawn on the government’s documents and announcements as available in English or translated text, in addition to information in the press and other relevant sources.
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Jagvir Dixit and Deldan Namgial. "Anthropometry of Farm Workers of Kashmir Region of India for Equipment Design." Journal of Agricultural Engineering (India) 49, no. 2 (February 19, 2024): 8–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.52151/jae2012492.1472.
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Anthropometric data (25 body dimensions, relevant to design of farm machinery) of 610 farm workers was collected from Kashmir region of India. The comparison between the Kashmir region data and different regions of India and six foreign countries is presented. There were significant differences in weight, stature and other body dimensions between the populations. Kashmiri women were taller by 31 mm as compared to south Indian female workers, but had differences in hand length. No differences existed between stature eye height, hand length and inside grip diameter among females from Kashmir and North-eastern regions. Kashmiri women were heavier and fatter as compared to other selected regions of the country. Indian men were shorter by 75 mm as compared to Americans. The muscular strength (elbow flexion) of Indian workers was lower (241 N) as compared to Americans (270.7 N). Similarly, hand grip strength of Indian workers was lower (301.8 N) than Americans (398 N). Application of data in design of agricultural equipment is demonstrated.
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Shield, Andrew DJ. "‘A Southern man can have a harem of up to twenty Danish women’: Sexotic politics and immigration in Denmark, 1965–1979." Sexualities 23, no. 1-2 (November 21, 2018): 224–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460718758665.
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During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Denmark received about 15,000 foreign workers from Turkey, Yugoslavia, Pakistan, the Middle East and North Africa during a unique period of women’s and sexual liberation. As foreign men visited discos—sometimes in search of sexual relationships with Danish women—a segment of Danish men accused foreigners of taking not only ‘their’ jobs but also ‘their’ women, and depicted foreign men as hypersexual or sexually violent (e.g. in union newspapers, men’s magazines). These ‘sexotic’ depictions of foreign men had immediate and negative effects on immigrants’ lived experiences in Denmark. In gay male subcultures, ‘sexotic’ depictions of men of color served mainly to entertain white fantasies, which also affected the experiences especially of gay men of color in Denmark. Overall, sexualized stereotypes about the male Other were central to broader political discussions in Denmark in the long 1970s, including debates about Danish wage suppression, immigrant ghetto formation, and the definition of sexual liberation.
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Felipe A. Alicante, Kriztianpery, Aaron Will G. Calbang, Ej Angelo R. Gamboa, Daniel V. Garcia, Thed Lorhen B. Hermoso, Krisha Denise L. Bautista, Alexandra Aaron G. Fauni, Maria Mikaela V. Herrera, and Evelyn S. Marinas. "BEHIND A MASCULINE SPACE: THE EXPERIENCES OF WOMEN IN MALE-DOMINATED ENVIRONMENTS IN THE STATE OF QATAR." International Journal of Advanced Research 8, no. 12 (December 31, 2020): 979–1000. http://dx.doi.org/10.21474/ijar01/12245.
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Background: The experiences of women, especially those in male-dominated environments in Qatar, may either be positive or negative. It is an arising topic in the 21st century to hopefully remediate gendered barriers and acknowledge womens struggles in the workplace. Method: This research utilizes a qualitative approach specifically, it uses the phenomenological approach to deeply understand the participants experiences, which are Filipina workers who are working in male-dominated environments. The phenomenology aims to answer the central question: What are the experiences of Filipina migrant workers in a male-dominated profession?. The researchers used 25 semi-structured interview questions to obtain the data needed, transcribing, and analyzing the studys themes. Findings: Findings show that we can categorize the lived experiences of Filipina workers in male-dominated environments into four main themes: Cultural Adaptation, Foreign Circumstances, Work Difficulties, and Professional Adjustments. Women in male-dominated environments face various challenges however, these challenges are vital in helping women adapt to their work environment and succeed. Conclusion:Women have been eradicating gender norms and are fighting to normalize treating men and women as equals in the workforce, despite these gendered barriers. Recommendation:The paper recommends interviewing female migrant workers with diverse nationalities and focusing on females specific work and working status in different male-dominated institutions.
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Yonghui, Chen. "Report on Foreign Shoe Factories That Endanger Women Workers with Hydrocarbon Poisons in Putian, Fujian." Chinese Sociology & Anthropology 30, no. 4 (July 1998): 35–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.2753/csa0009-4625300435.
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Grossman-Thompson, Barbara H. "Disposability and gendered control in labor migration: Limiting women’s mobility through cultural and institutional norms." Organization 26, no. 3 (November 23, 2018): 337–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1350508418812584.
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In this article, I draw upon interviews with 30 Nepali returned women migrant workers to elucidate how the gendered institutional logics of both the Nepali state and for-profit manpower companies synergistically function to constrain women’s mobility. In particular, I focus on women migrant workers who migrate illegally to Gulf countries to work as domestic laborers, as this constitutes one of the largest channels of women’s labor migration from Nepal. To illuminate the particulars of Nepali women migrant workers’ experiences, I employ two theoretical frameworks, both developed by feminist political economists within the context of feminized workplaces broadly and global factory floors specifically. The first framework presents a logic of female disposability as shaping the feminized workforce of the global South. The second framework presents a logic of gendered control as doing the same. In this article, I show how these dual logics can be applied to women’s foreign labor migration in Nepal, and argue that these logics operate simultaneously through the various institutions that Nepali women navigate during migration. The Nepali case shows how both logics serve ultimately to limit women’s mobility and bolster the authority of institutions and organizations historically controlled by men—for example, the family, the state, transnational corporations—over women migrants. By bringing these two logics to bear on a case of women domestic workers’ migration from the global South, this article offers new insights into the functioning of institutions central to this large-scale, transnational movement of people.
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Paillard-Borg, Stéphanie, and Jessica Holmgren. "Immigration, Women, and Japan—A Leap Ahead and a Step Behind." SAGE Open 6, no. 4 (October 2016): 215824401667312. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2158244016673129.
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Japan has become a super-aged society, facing demographic challenges resulting in societal and economic consequences. In its political structural reform, the Japanese government presented the urgency to consider the increase in labor mobility that includes the issues of immigration and female employment, both domestic and foreign. The aim of this study was to explore, from a Japanese woman’s perspective, the intertwined issues of immigration. An in-depth interview was performed and analyzed by content analysis with a methodological departure in qualitative journalistic interviewing. The case was a Japanese woman with a unique profile. The results of this study, family permanency and group cohesiveness, can contribute to understand the potential interdependency between the roles, within the Japanese society, of foreign female domestic workers and Japanese women. In conclusion, it appears that the pivotal role of women in the Japanese society and the global feminization of migration challenge Japanese social consistency.
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Ahmed, Tayyaba, and Nasreen Aslam Shah. "Study Of Labour Legislation And Its Implementation To Women Workers In The Fisheries Industries Of Pakistan." Pakistan Journal of Gender Studies 5, no. 1 (December 8, 2011): 149–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.46568/pjgs.v5i1.395.
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Pakistan is endowed with rich fishery potential and can contribute extensively in the Nation Economy in terms of foreign exchange. At present, there is 300,000 and 400,000 employment opportunities as direct and indirect respectively. About 10,000 Fisher Women are working in different sea food Processing Plants and “Warrahs” (unregistered Processing Plants being run by the Contractors). These Fisher Women working in the “Warrahs” have been deprived off the basic fundamental rights of an Industrial Worker. This discrimination is because the fisher workers being women, resulting in appalling work conditions, low wages, insecurity of job and all types of malpractices are inflicted upon them. All these malpractices are drastically causing health problems and low productivity of fisher women thereby increasing poverty in the society.
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O'Brien, Diana Z., Matthew Mendez, Jordan Carr Peterson, and Jihyun Shin. "Letting Down the Ladder or Shutting the Door: Female Prime Ministers, Party Leaders, and Cabinet Ministers." Politics & Gender 11, no. 04 (December 2015): 689–717. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1743923x15000410.
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In October 2012 the Danish Socialist People's Party chose Annette Vilhelmsen as its leader. With her ascension to power, women simultaneously headed all three of Denmark's governing parties for the first time. Though an exclusively female-led coalition government remains exceptional, in developed democracies the number of female prime ministers and party leaders has grown in recent years. Since 2000, women have governed in Denmark, Germany, Finland, Iceland, New Zealand, and Australia and have commanded coalition partner parties in Austria, Ireland, and Sweden. Just as there are now more female leaders, governments are also nominating more women to cabinets than ever before. Women recently held half of all ministerial posts in Finland, Iceland, Sweden, and Spain. Female ministers are also serving in high-prestige portfolios from which they were traditionally excluded, including finance and foreign affairs.
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Ayupova, Z. K., D. U. Kussainov, S. S. Dzhankadyrov, Winston Nagan, and N. L. Seitakhmetova. "PECULIARITIES OF THE LEGAL REGULATION OF THE LABOR OF SOME CATEGORIES OF EMPLOYEES." BULLETIN 5, no. 387 (October 15, 2020): 117–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.32014/2020.2518-1467.150.
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Research on the specifics of the legal regulation of certain categories of employees is conducted by leading foreign research centers and international organizations. In particular, the work of women, children, disabled people, homeworkers, seasonal workers and migrants is one of the most active research topics within the UN, ILO, OSCE, and CIS. For example, the topics are “Labor Market Trends and Outlook”, “Labor, Income and Equity”, “Changing World of Work”, “Macroeconomic Policies and Jobs”, “Globalization and Labor Market”, “Policy evaluation”, “Youth and Gender Issues” (Special issues of youth and gender are also covered) are recognized as one of the main topics studied by the ILO Research Department in The direction of labor market trends and prospects. The following results were obtained in scientific studies conducted in the field of determining the features of legal regulation of labor of certain categories of workers in foreign countries: proposals were developed and implemented to ensure gender equality in labor relations (University of Sterling, Scotland), eliminate discrimination by introducing rules of differentiation (Rand Afrikaans University, South Africa), and provide additional opportunities in the field of labor for women and persons employed in family responsibilities (University of Essex, UK), increasing the role of contracts in regulating the work of home workers (Middlesex University, UK), providing equal rights in the use of migrant labor (University of Oxford, UK).