The Power of Money in Gender Relations From a Chilean Mining Culture

Silva-Segovia, Jimena; Lay-Lisboa, Siu

doi:10.1177/0886109916689784

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“…Junior, Katz, and Ahn's (2016) qualitative study found that, when asked about household money management, impoverished married women most often responded that their husbands had the final say about financial decisions. Silva-Segovia and Lay-Lisboa's (2017) study also revealed that money has meaning as a symbolic element of power. Although women shared a great deal of responsibility for household finances, they saw it as the illusion of power .…”

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Lone Motherhood, Poverty and the Meaning of Money

Attrash-Najjar

Lavee

Wilkis³

et al. 2022

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Lone-mother–headed families are key targets of poverty research and financial coaching training programs worldwide. Yet, despite the centrality of this population in poverty studies, there is little research on how this population construes the meaning of money in developed economies. This article focuses on the social construction of money among low-income lone mothers in Israel—a highly market-oriented, neoliberal economy. Based on a qualitative analysis, the study found five main representations of money: survival money, motherhood money, earned money, coping money, and resistance to dominant views of money. Our findings confirm the notion that money exists outside the sphere of the market and has contextualized meanings reflecting gender as well as cultural and social structures.

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Lone Motherhood, Poverty and the Meaning of Money

Attrash-Najjar

Lavee

Wilkis³

et al. 2022

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“…Part of the slowness in the transformation toward equality in couples in the mining industry is related to economic–emotional dependencies linked to important social and wage benefits offered by mining companies. We also suggest that mining jobs involve labor relations that, along with demanding high levels of productivity from the workers, imply periods of exclusive dedication to the worksite when working shifts—shifts are organized in periods of days exclusively for work and the same number of days of rest, which vary according to the activities that the worker performs and the type and size of the mining company; they can also be 12 × 12, 7 × 7, or 4 × 4—far away from the cities where their families live [ 7 , 15 , 16 ].…”

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Experiences of Being a Couple and Working in Shifts in the Mining Industry: Advances and Continuities

Segovia

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Ravanal

et al. 2021

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In this study, we sought to understand, from a gender perspective, the experiences of mining couples in Antofagasta, Chile, especially the balance between their intimate lives and the absences of their partners due to the shift work modality. We analyzed testimonies from men and women living in Antofagasta, which is considered to be one of the world’s three largest mining regions. Among the main findings, power relations based on the hegemonic gender model supported by the sexual division of labor were identified, which persist in this mining area, despite progress in gender equality issues in Chile. Although there are differences between the discourses of men and women and their subjective positioning, we propose that both actively collaborate with the reproduction of social gender relations marked by male domination. We propose that the way in which couples live is associated with the organization of mining work and especially the shift system, which is central to the reproduction of the gender order with a heteropatriarchal tone.

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Congeniar, resistir y ajustar

Pérez-Roa¹

2021

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En un contexto de aumento del costo de la vida y estancamiento salarial, el endeudamiento de los hogares chilenos se ha incrementado a niveles sin precedentes. En este marco, el artículo explora los arreglos económicos de las parejas de adultos jóvenes y profesionales ante la alta presión económica provocada por las deudas. Entendemos que en las relaciones de pareja se construyen, discuten y negocian la adquisición, los usos y estrategias de pago de deudas. Para ello, a partir del análisis de 34 entrevistas semiestructuradas a parejas jóvenes y deudoras, exploramos tres tipos de negociaciones: (i) las que buscan congeniar las herencias o los aprendizajes financieros previos; (ii) las estrategias financieras de resistencia que las parejas asumen para poder sostenerse económicamente; (iii) los ajustes a los proyectos futuros en función de la proyección de pago de sus compromisos asumidos.

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The Power of Money in Gender Relations From a Chilean Mining Culture

Cited by 3 publications

References 16 publications

Lone Motherhood, Poverty and the Meaning of Money

Lone Motherhood, Poverty and the Meaning of Money

Experiences of Being a Couple and Working in Shifts in the Mining Industry: Advances and Continuities

Congeniar, resistir y ajustar

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