HILDA Survey finds working from home boosts women's job satisfaction more than men's, and that has a downside
The shift to working from home is unlikely to reverse.
Social Sciences
Dec 5, 2022
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News tagged with women workers
19th century hand bones provide novel insights into the daily lives of early industrial women workers
The hand skeletons of women workers from the early days of industrialization reflect the diverse and unstable manual activities of their everyday lives.
Archaeology
Nov 2, 2022
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Sociologist interviews formerly incarcerated mothers about the trauma of institutional separation
When Zimife Umeh, a new assistant professor of sociology at the George Washington University's Columbian College of Arts and Sciences (CCAS), first embarked on researching the experiences of incarcerated mothers, she worried ...
Social Sciences
Oct 12, 2022
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Refugee and migrant women are often excluded from mainstream domestic violence services and policy
In Australia, the discussion around gendered violence is increasingly focused on diversity. However, policy and services continue to be based mostly on the experiences of white, Anglo-settler women.
Social Sciences
Jul 25, 2022
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Delay and deflect: How women gig workers respond to sexual harassment
These days, we use apps to order food, call ride-sharing vehicles, assign home improvement tasks and personal errands. But these apps depend on people to deliver the promised service—to deliver food, provide rides and complete ...
Social Sciences
Jul 6, 2022
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Online data, medical records could be used to put women in jail under new abortion laws
If the Supreme Court rules to overturn Roe v. Wade this month, lawmakers and law enforcement may have varied means to go after women and health care providers who participate in abortions in large part because of technology ...
Social Sciences
Jun 13, 2022
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Women working for apps like Uber and Doordash often 'brush off' harassment
Gig industry platforms such as Uber, Doordash, and TaskRabbit fail to acknowledge the realities of women workers' experiences, putting women at financial and personal risk, finds a new study.
Social Sciences
May 5, 2022
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Getting ID after exiting prison is harder than you might think. So we built a chatbot to help
Getting out of prison is often assumed to be cause for celebration and a new beginning. However, many women exiting prison face profound disadvantage, isolation, poor mental and physical health and struggle finding housing.
Social Sciences
Apr 26, 2022
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Domestic violence increase during natural disasters
Thirty percent of women experience domestic violence in various circumstances but the rate increases during natural disasters such as bushfires, floods, and cyclones while community attention is focused on recovery and reconstruction.
Social Sciences
Mar 15, 2022
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Many of us welcome working from home, but universities show its dangers for women's careers
If one possibly positive thing came out of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was the impetus it gave to letting people work from home.
Social Sciences
Mar 11, 2022
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