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Recent Articles:
- Structural infertilities constrain women’s autonomy whether and when to have children.
- Women forgo, limit, and delay childbearing as tactics to become good mothers.
- Women contest the feminization of reproduction as gender inequalities remain pervasive.
- Lower-class women struggle with the stigma of bad mothers as motherhood becomes a class privilege.
- Neoliberalism and patriarchy constitute sites of reproductive injustice.
Intrahousehold Decision Making and Fertility Choices in Rural Senegal and Uganda – Kaat Van Hoyweghen, Goedele Van den Broeck & Miet Maertens
- Analyzing spousal fertility and child-raising choices provides an alternative to traditional proxies for intrahousehold decision making.
- Choice experimental data and methods enables the calculation of a decision-making coefficient.
- Individual fertility preferences cannot substitute for household-level choices.
- Considering the adequate gender and decision-making unit is crucial in designing family planning programs.
Long work hours and long commutes in the Greater Accra region of Ghana: Time Poverty and Gender – Fiona Carmichael, Patricia Daley, Christian Darko, Jo Duberley, Marco Ercolani, Tim Schwanen & Daniel Wheatley
- Time poverty limits time for leisure, sleep, and personal care, impacting life quality.
- In the Greater Accra Region, working days are long, averaging over twelve hours and commuting times add on average two hours to the working day.
- Women’s working days are 0.8 h longer, and they are more likely to be time poor.
- Women’s time poverty reflects longer hours in unpaid household work.
- Self-employed women with no employees are among the most time poor.
Trapped in Flexibility: How Does Precarious Work Affect Gender Wage Gap in China? – Fusheng Xie, Nan Jiang & Han Cheng
- Gender wage gap is wider among precarious workers in China.
- Marxist-feminist theories help us to better understand GWG in precarious work.
- Women in precarious work face income loss risks and heavier domestic responsibilities.
- Developmentalist social reproduction regime seeks to balance growth and reproduction.
- The cost of social reproduction should be shifted back to capital.
Review Articles:
- Building a Solidarity Society: Power, People, and Planet. By Marianne T. Hill – Talia Esnard .