Sentences with phrase «domestic labor»

And while working mothers didn't influence the careers of sons, they did influence their attitudes toward domestic labor.

International labor unions may be granted unprecedented authority to set and legally enforce domestic labor policy in the United States, activists participating in United Nations climate talks in Paris hinted Friday.

In the United States, the effort to provide benefits for domestic labor revalues housework that has never been represented in the nation's gross domestic product.

And despite the fall in sterling and the euro, Europe's policy of emphasizing exports to the American market rather than to sell to its own domestic labor force looks pretty bad in view of the imminent economic slowdown in store.

While stories about children in garment production and domestic labor surface more regularly, slavery in the chocolate industry oftentimes slips into obscurity.

As she sees it, the growing success of the feminist movement combined with emancipation from domestic labor via technology to create a crisis for American society just after World War II, when millions of returning servicemen were flooding the job market.

So if those couples can escape gendered expectations when it comes to free domestic labor masquerading as «love,» then why can't hetero couples and those of us with kids?

Findings from a study by Stanford University's Clayman Institute for Gender Research in Palo Alto, California, which surveyed 1222 partnered tenured and tenure - track faculty respondents (910 men and 312 women), indicates why the division of domestic labor matters — especially for women.

In the Kingdom of Bubunne, women are in power and men wear veils, sexually repressed and required to do domestic labor.

The two forces he labels «Asia» and «Automation» have changed the U.S. job market forever, pushing domestic labor into more creative practices.

«Second - wave feminism» refers to a generation of pioneering female artists working in 1960s and»70s who embodied the infamous phrase «the personal is political,» by putting bodies, emotions, and domestic labor on display.

Ukeles» shift from more traditional object - making to maintenance at first involved declaring the day - to - day drudgeries that consumed her postpartum life as a form of art, a position not dissimilar to a number of feminist interventions of the era aligning domestic labor and artwork, such as Martha Rosler's hysterical Semiotics of the Kitchen (1975), Mary Kelly's Postpartum Document (1973 — 79), and even Judy Chicago's Dinner Party (1979).

Gomez began his works on labor by taking advertising from luxury magazines and inserting figures representing domestic labor.

Saar taps the symbolic richness of found objects, reusing cast iron frying pans as ideally - sized surfaces for portraits — the pans» «seasoning» (the aromatic patina that builds up after frying stuff) becoming part of the object's story, focused around domestic labor.

«You know that my assignments on women in the mili - tary have emphasized the small domestic labors necessary for the survival of the feel and form of what we call our country.

The distribution of domestic labor among mothers, fathers, and school - age children in 153 families was examined with attention to three conditions that might facilitate or constrain the distribution of tasks: familial earner status, child gender, and «social time» (defined here as the distinction between weekdays and weekends).

One step forward, one step back: «Progressive traditionalism» and the negotiation of domestic labor within Evangelical families.

As Britain cedes its border fluidity with the 27 other European Union countries, new tariffs will drive down U.K. exports, while domestic labor costs will slowly increase as a result of likely more restrictive immigration policies going forward.

... For a person like me, a feminist with a keen awareness of the generally unfair division of domestic labor, my friends» irritated gripes, or the findings in books like Arlie Hochschild's 1989 classic The Second Shift, are little horror stories.

The administration believes that long - term deficits have a negative impact on U.S. business and domestic labor.

Strong Protections for Labor and the Environment: Both parties commit to effectively enforce their domestic labor and environmental laws.

On the economic front, U.S. jobless claims declined last week to a fresh 48 - year low, underscoring the health of the domestic labor market.

Radical women and flamboyant homosexuals are easy (and ancient) targets, but neither undermines heterosexual marriage more than an array of other factors, such as financial instability, emotional dysfunction, unfair distribution of domestic labor, widespread divorce, interreligious differences and intercultural conflict.

He's still more fun to spend time with than the easily flustered Jinny (Emily Mortimer), who quickly blurts out that she's expecting triplets, and her more emotionally remote partner, Martha (Cherry Jones), a self - serious academic specializing in «domestic labor, gender differentiation and American utopianism.»

That is the alternatively optimistic and bleak picture of the domestic labor market sketched by economists Frank Levy of MIT and Richard J. Murnane of Harvard, who conducted a detailed study of what jobs have been lost to automation in recent years and which jobs are likely to be lost as technology keeps advancing.

Washington Post, July 12, 2013 «That is the alternatively optimistic and bleak picture of the domestic labor market sketched by economists Frank Levy of MIT and [Professor] Richard J. Murnane of Harvard, who conducted a detailed study of what jobs have been lost to automation in recent years and which jobs are likely to be lost as technology keeps advancing.»

Sex or domestic labor are the most frequent uses, but it's up to you.

These works also address classic feminist critiques of body language (the socialized differences of behavior between men and women) and reference the many works made by women artists that deploy imagery of hands: a symbol of domestic labor, idealized femininity, craft, and self - image.

The space of domestic labor has long trafficked in the unacknowledged and unpaid labor of women, and van der Stokker takes the argument that women should be compensated for their skills and contributions one step further with the text «Crying Crying for $ 320 p day 8 hours a day,» which proposes women should be paid for expressing their emotions.

Coining the term «Maintenance Art» she explores the roles of domestic labor, both at home and within the community.

Other works, such as his 2002 print series Five Beauties Rising, use patterns produced by steam irons as iconographic metaphors for female bodies, domestic labor, or slaving vessels.

In her reference to Klein's Anthropometries, Wagenknecht conflates a critique of the male use of female bodies (both in art and in general) with the surprisingly entangled histories of military technology and domestic labor.

The proposal argued for an intimate relationship between creative production in the public sphere and domestic labor — a relationship whose intricacies Ukeles has been unraveling ever since.

Issues such as nurturance, sentimentality, expectation, domestic labor, familial hierarchy and family narrative motivate her work.

Referencing fashion, women's domestic labor, and Surrealism, Stainman uses cultural tropes around beauty to create an embodied response in the viewer as a method of exploring the connection between body and mind.

Her initial choice to use them as patterns for her works gave these textiles a new life and purpose, and in making paintings from their structures she honored the embedded intelligence in the domestic labor and traditions that produced them.

Gomez's sculptural take on Diego de Velazquez's famous 1656 painting «Las Meninas,» which depicts an act of domestic labor.

The Three Corners of Domestic Labor: Mothers», Fathers», and Children's Weekday and Weekend Housework

Marriage works best and has the most logic when it can create economies of scale between two individuals with jobs, and / or resources, either tangible in the form of a paycheck, or intangible in their willingness to contribute parenting and domestic labor — even if that means engaging in «ideology mobility,» as I call it, and setting aside patriarchal, «traditional» ideas that husbands should be breadwinners.

The book addresses such key issues as the division of domestic labor, the changing nature of couples» marital relationships, changes in new parents» attachment networks, postnatal depression, and factors predicting the ease of the transition.