مورد إلكتروني
The perceived value of women's unpaid work : as experienced by eight New Zealand women born between 1922 and 1946 : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Philosophy in Women's Studies at Massey University
| العنوان: | The perceived value of women's unpaid work : as experienced by eight New Zealand women born between 1922 and 1946 : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Philosophy in Women's Studies at Massey University |
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| بيانات النشر: | Massey University 1998 |
| تفاصيل مُضافة: | Cave, June |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Electronic Resource |
| مستخلص: | At some time in their lives, most New Zealand women have undertaken unpaid work either in the home or in the community. Much of women's unpaid work is concerned with caring and nurturing. Women undertake the major share of child rearing, caring for sick and elderly relatives both within the home and in the community and emotional work within their family. Women also undertake most of the unpaid household maintenance in the home, from domestic labour to decision making and budgeting. Many women act as helpmeet to their husbands in support of their careers. A large proportion of women's unpaid work is connected with both informal and formal voluntary work in the community. There is no question that this work is valuable, as it is critical to the New Zealand economy. However, many women believe that this work is not always valued by male partners, government policy makers, and in some cases, the women themselves. In certain contexts, this work is valued more than in others. And at certain periods of time this work has been valued more than at other times. The method chosen for this research was a modified form of the grounded theory approach developed by Glaser and Strauss, as outlined by Kirby and McKenna (1989). The data was collected by conducting qualitative interviews with eight New Zealand women between fifty and seventy years of age. The interviewees were encouraged to relate their experiences of unpaid work and to reflect on their mothers' and daughters' experiences of unpaid work. The women in this study had much in common, in that they had all been married, had adult children, and had undertaken a variety of unpaid work both within the home and in the community. However, along with the commonalities, there were differences. Six of the women were Pakeha and two were Maori. The twenty year age range among the women, meant that they experienced different economic and historical events. Some of the women came from a higher than average socio-economic level than o |
| مصطلحات الفهرس: | Housewives, Women volunteers, Middle-aged women, Unpaid work, Voluntary work, Thesis |
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| الإتاحة: | Open access content. Open access content The Author |
| ملاحظة: | English |
| أرقام أخرى: | UW1 oai:mro.massey.ac.nz:10179/6574 1085528478 |
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| رقم الأكسشن: | edsoai.on1085528478 |
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