Women, Economy and
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7078424 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elizabeth M Esterchild (corresponding author), Elizabeth Esterchild |
| Year | 2007 |
| Publication date | 2007-02-15 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosw017 |
| OpenAlex | W4253173707 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
Women's position in the economy and their general well‐being in all other spheres of life depend heavily on the type of society in which they reside. All societies have a complex division of labor by sex. In some, men's and women's tasks are not differentially evaluated and rewarded; in others differential evaluation is so strong that men receive the lion's share of property, material goods, and rights and privileges while women become the property of men and their work and work products are controlled by men. Societies differ because of alternative modes of organization of the productive forces and the subsequent differences in the parts played by the two sexes in these economic arrangements. Gerhard Lenski (1966) described six different types of societies based on the level of technology of the primary means of production, while gender scholars (Dunn et al. 1999) filled in the distinct implications for women
Demographic economics · Division of labour · Economics · Economy · Market economy · Political science · Position (finance · Production (economics · Property (philosophy · Property rights · Sociology · Work (physics · Engineering · Gender Studies · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Law · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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