Women and economy: complex inequality in a post-industrial landscape

Bennett, Katy

doi:10.1080/0966369x.2014.958066

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“…The geographer Katy Bennett has documented the many structural inequalities around women's paid work. Neha is working, or trying to find work, in an economy "shaped by low pay and insecurity" (Bennett, 2015). As a young, Muslim, working class, woman, she is "multiply marginalised" (Walby, 2009).…”

Section: Neha: Libraries and The Everydaymentioning

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Libraries in women’s lives: everyday rhythms and public time

Spencer-Bennett

2020

Educational Review

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This paper asks how libraries have rhythmed women's education and everyday lives. It draws on women's narratives of library use in a multicultural suburb of Birmingham, UK. It shows that women's use of libraries exists in rhythmic relations with other times and places, both public and private. The narratives reveal the value of the library in offering space for women to claim time for themselves in the Lefebvrian "weak time, the stops, silences, blanks". Routines, cycles and continuity of use over various scales are important in women's engagements with libraries. Memorable too are particular moments. Punctuating the quotidian rhythms of library use, these moments are individual stories of rupture; times of great significance in women's lives. Changes to library provision have, therefore, rhythmic consequences, with reduced opening hours and library closure bringing arrhythmia. Through the library, women are linked to particular histories and they enter into shared rhythms, within both the present and the past. Libraries, this paper argues, offer not only an important public space but also public time. 1

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Section: Neha: Libraries and The Everydaymentioning

confidence: 99%

Libraries in women’s lives: everyday rhythms and public time

Spencer-Bennett

2020

Educational Review

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“…Initially, research from divergent theoretical perspectives adopted a ‘productionist view’, which placed educated, flexible workers’ creation of innovative, high‐value, knowledge‐based goods and services centre stage in analyses of an increasingly open and volatile economy (McDowell and Dyson ). Later growing attention was paid to the absences in these accounts, in particular the parallel growth of low‐wage, low‐status jobs in an increasingly bifurcated economy (Bennett ; Warren ), including commodified forms of reproductive work (McDowell and Dyson ).…”

Section: The Shifting Terrains Of Paid Employment and Social Reproducmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For those in well‐paid employment, these dangers have been accompanied by heightened work intensity and a blurring of the boundaries between home and work, such that workers are never off duty (James ). In a divided economy, those at the other end of the occupational spectrum not only experience more pressured work environments, but also find it difficult to earn a living wage in the context of low pay, zero‐hour contracts, agency working and a lack of full‐time employment opportunities (Bennett ; Corlett and Whittaker ; MacInnes et al . ).…”

Section: The Shifting Terrains Of Paid Employment and Social Reproducmentioning

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New economy, neoliberal state and professionalised parenting: mothers’ labour market engagement and state support for social reproduction in class‐differentiated Britain

Holloway

Pimlott‐Wilson

2016

Trans Inst British Geog

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Contemporary economic, political and social shifts in the Global North are reconfiguring the resolution of productive and reproductive labour. This paper explores how the emergence of the New Economy, the rolling out of the neoliberal state, and the professionalisation of parenting are transforming: (i) the landscape in which mothers with primary-school-aged children make decisions about how to secure a living and care for their children and (ii) what role they think the state should play in facilitating the provision of childcare to support working parenthood. The paper makes two innovative contributions to knowledge. First, it pinpoints strongly class-differentiated changes in women's reconciliation of paid employment and caring work in contemporary Britain. The academically dominant one-and-ahalf breadwinner model is commonly reflected in middle-class lifestyles, but has little analytical purchase for workingclass women in this study, as they are more likely to mother full-time in state-dependent family households. It is vital that we understand these changes in women's labour-force participation and their implications for class inequality. Second, the paper concentrates academic attention on the sweeping expansion in the state's role in social reproduction through the provision of wraparound childcare (breakfast and afterschool clubs) in primary schools. Novel insights into parental attitudes reveal that middle-class women demand choice and feel entitled to statesponsored childcare provision which underpins the feminisation of the labour force. Working-class women value provision for others, but fear being coerced into using childcare instead of mothering in the home. Their responses reveal competing understandings of what counts as equality for women, and stark variations in different women's abilities to achieve this.

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“…In particular, literature examines employer demands for certain kinds of gendered performances in the workplace (Ainsworth 2014;Bennett 2014), especially as economies become dominated by tertiary or 'interactive work' (Leidner 1993;McDowell 1997;Crang 1994). The kind of work becomes critical as it determines what kind of work identities are valued, from retail where normative femininity is rewarded to skilled trades where it is often derided.…”

Section: Identity Workmentioning

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Who we are at work: millennial women, everyday inequalities and insecure work

Worth

2016

Gender, Place & Culture

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Who we are at work: millennial women, identity and the workplace Abstract Based on research with millennial women in Canada, this article examines the process of workplace identity, or (un)conscious strategies of identity management that young women employ at work. First, despite increasing labour market participation from women, young women's experience of the workplace can be one of precarity and insecurity.Many millennial women have responded with a 'positive front'-saying yes to all work tasks while highlighting their likability and acceptance of the status quo. This isn't seen as a permanent strategy-but rather one that gets you into the workplace and 'liked' until your work speaks for itself. Second, and operating at the same time, young women also use tactics to confront intersections of ageism/sexism in the workplace. While some employ conscious strategies to be 'taken seriously' though dress, small talk, even taking on stereotypical traits of masculinity to be recognized as competent, others explicitly confront inequality through 'girlie feminism' with a pro-femininity work identity that challenges the masculine-coded norms of how a successful workplace operates and what it looks like. For everyone, who we are at work is a constantly shifting negotiation between how we're treated and seen by others, the workplace as a social space, our past experiences and our own expectations. Considering young women's work identities reveals how power and privilege operate in the workplace, and the possibilities of young women's agential challenges to inequitable workplace norms and an insecure labour market.

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Women and economy: complex inequality in a post-industrial landscape

Cited by 18 publications

References 44 publications

Libraries in women’s lives: everyday rhythms and public time

Libraries in women’s lives: everyday rhythms and public time

New economy, neoliberal state and professionalised parenting: mothers’ labour market engagement and state support for social reproduction in class‐differentiated Britain

Who we are at work: millennial women, everyday inequalities and insecure work

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