Maternity protection in formal and informal economy workplaces: The case of Ghana

Stumbitz, Bianca; Lewis, Suzan; Kyei, Abigail; Lyon, Fergus

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.06.007

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“…Our study has important implications for the design of MLPs in developing countries like Pakistan. Our study reaffirms the finding (Stumbitz, Lewis, Kyei, et al, 2018) that it is important to account for heterogeneities in women workers, for example, based on the type (public/private) and size (small, medium, large) of employing organization, and employment type (contract-based, entrepreneurial or formal). Our data suggests that women working as regular employees in public hospitals generally have better overall access to maternity policies.…”

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Crushed between two stones: Competing institutional logics in the implementation of maternity leave policies in Pakistan

Masood

Nisar

2020

Gender Work & Organization

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Maternity leave forms the mainstay of work-life policies aimed towards creating an inclusive and diverse workplace. While extensive research has examined the impact of maternity leave on women's participation, progress and retention in the labour force, the institutional micro-social foundations of implementation and interpretation of these policies remain underexplored. Based on an ethnographic study of Pakistani women doctors, this study explores the intersection of different logics prevailing in various institutionsfamily, state and professioninvolved in implementing maternity policies. Our findings illustrate that cultural configurations of motherhood, norms of the medical profession and the administrative burden of applying for leave, shaped by the trans-institutional logic of patriarchy, limit the effectiveness and utilization of maternity policies. Our research, therefore, supports context-specific reconceptualization and redesign of maternity leave policies. Based on our findings, we offer suggestions to account for heterogeneity of women workers based on their employment status (regular/contractual) and employing organizations (public/private) in the design of maternity leave policies to improve their implementation.

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Crushed between two stones: Competing institutional logics in the implementation of maternity leave policies in Pakistan

Masood

Nisar

2020

Gender Work & Organization

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“…With a few exceptions (e.g., Gatrell, 2019), research on maternal body work has also mostly focused on women in highly skilled, professional occupations (Stumbitz, Lewis, Kyei, et al, 2018). Gatrell (2019) argued that continued breastfeeding beyond a few weeks of a baby's birth was problematic especially for low-income mothers needing to combine paid work and breastfeeding.…”

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“…Like work on the broader concept of 'body work' (Coffey, 2016), the literature on maternal body work and organizations has primarily been developed in the global North (Stumbitz, Lewis, Kyei, & Lyon, 2018), neglecting views on bodies and the specific nature of families, employment and societies in the global South. For example, in South Africa, colonial and apartheid legacies of unequal education, land distribution by race and migrant labour influence the nature of family forms, working conditions and employment.…”

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A Southern encounter: Maternal body work and low‐income mothers in South Africa

Stumbitz

Jaga

2020

Gender Work & Organization

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This article explores the maternal body work practices of black low-income mothers from resource-poor urban spaces in South Africa. Using Southern Theory to open our analytical lens, we recognize that location has implications for how we understand the embodiment of gender and the lactating body in the global South. We argue that maternal body work, as one form of gendered embodiment, must be understood in a postcolonial landscape where histories of colonization and indigenous gender orders continue to shape how women respond to work conditions and how they manage the competing demands of work and breastfeeding. Our analysis from 51 in-depth interviews conducted in Cape Town, demonstrates that maternal body work practices are interpreted through the entanglement of embodiment and work and non-work spaces. By emphasizing contextual specificities relating to low-income workers' living, working and family realities, we advance studies on maternal body work and employment from the global South.

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“…In this wide range of views, it can be seen easily that participants who had shown positive attitude towards pregnancy and maternity at workplace, at some point expressed their concern regarding difficulties, which small organizations have to face in handling this situation. Small organizations, no doubt, see pregnancy at workplace as a potential problem that they have to handle, not a welcoming situation [7] . For small organizations, the hostility factors against pregnancy and maternity at work place come from the fact that they, generally, don't support labour law and has resentful attitude towards maternity act specially.…”

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“…In many instances, employers reported that their employee had said that they would join but did showed up after leaves Female employers were sympathetic about this but male employers were clearly not ready to accept the situation. This issue was noted more upsetting for small employers [6,7] . "Mostly the female workers don't return to their jobs after delivery and we have to hire another person for that job.…”

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Pregnancy and Maternity at Workplace, a Qualitative Study to Know the Employers’ Perspective

Akhtar¹,

Khan²

2020

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A B S T R A C T BACKGROUNDThe twentieth century witnessed women expanding the range of possibilities for their gender; by participating as professionals in different fields and by actively dissolving the boundaries of the traditionally held gender roles and they continue to work even during the most crucial phase of their life, that is pregnancy. Discussing the factors related with women's career progress, the negative aspects were found to be domination of men in senior executive positions, discrimination against women, and gender stereotyping. The main objective of this study was to take point of view of employers regarding pregnancy at workplace, their concerns and challenges and how they place themselves in the whole scenario of changing environment for a worker. METHODSA qualitative study design was adopted by conducting semi-structured interviews for which a guideline was developed beforehand. In depth interviews were conducted with the employers at different levels in different organizations of Lahore. RESULTSClassical content analysis of interviews revealed that employers display unfavourable attitude towards the employment of childbearing age group women in the first place and pregnancy at workplace is not a welcoming event at all. All this negative attitude is due to the cost and HR issues raised by the absences and maternity leave of a pregnant worker. There is a great chaos regarding workload shared by the colleagues in pregnant women's absence. For maternity leave, cost of hiring a new person and training are the issues raised by the employers especially in small organizations. CONCLUSIONSThere is a great need to give awareness to workers as well as management regarding laws and regulations about maternity at workplace.

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Maternity protection in formal and informal economy workplaces: The case of Ghana

Cited by 18 publications

References 45 publications

Crushed between two stones: Competing institutional logics in the implementation of maternity leave policies in Pakistan

Crushed between two stones: Competing institutional logics in the implementation of maternity leave policies in Pakistan

A Southern encounter: Maternal body work and low‐income mothers in South Africa

Pregnancy and Maternity at Workplace, a Qualitative Study to Know the Employers’ Perspective

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