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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (2): 81–89.
Published: 01 June 2014
... family support systems largely out of reach. As a result, young infants can be left at home alone for four to 12 hours, often tied to furniture to keep them safely within the corrugated steel or mud walls of the home. In some cases, an older child, usually a girl, is pulled from school to care for her...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 106.
Published: 01 September 2017
... World Policy Journal examines six countries to see how the burden of child care, household chores, and other unpaid work falls disproportionately on women. Copyright © 2017 World Policy Institute 2017 women gender labor child care ...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 16–20.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Rhacel Salazar Parreñas In homes across Asia, the Middle East, and the United States, female migrant laborers are doing the difficult work of child and elder care. But these women often leave behind children of their own in countries such as Indonesia and the Philippines. Rhacel Salazar Parreñas...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 3–7.
Published: 01 September 2017
... to help others, even if they had little themselves. My mother and aunts and other women in the U.S. comforted each other and relied on female relatives for child care. This has become rare, and I hope future generations retain these values of support and altruism. I find it ironic, however...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (4): 18–22.
Published: 01 December 2016
.... Still—as in the United States—they were considered responsible for child care and household duties, which resulted in many women working a “second shift” at home late into the night. Propaganda posters depicted women laboring in fields and factories, parachuting from planes, and driving tractors...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 1–2.
Published: 01 September 2017
... foundation for gutting public funds for elder and child care, thereby “increasing the burden of care work already disproportionally borne by women.” Right-wing visions of family are often directly connected to economic reforms. Schieder catalogs the ways in which misogyny is built into Japan’s...
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World Policy Journal (2003) 20 (1): 59–67.
Published: 01 March 2003
... is ruled by a former
responsible for child care and traditional Communist boss whose regime has evolved
household duties as well. The upper reaches more in form than in substance. Following
of power remained closed to women. Never the breakup of the Soviet Union, Uzbek
theless, they did improve...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 8–14.
Published: 01 September 2017
... need only fill out a form in the hospital after giving birth. The new policies also make it easier for mothers to secure child-care payments. Last year Honduras established a national registry of fathers owing child support; those on the list are unable to open bank accounts, obtain credit cards...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (2): 37–41.
Published: 01 June 2016
... Market. These are self-help groups where members support each other and share their challenges. In addition to health-care support and child-care services that members provide each other, they also run the savings and loan programs themselves. This pilot program is different from directly...
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (2): 70–74.
Published: 01 June 2018
.... Second, many Bolshevik leaders, especially Lenin, were prudish and conservative when it came to sexual matters, and disapproved of Kollontai’s more radical theories. Third, after years of war and the onset of a terrible famine, public laundries, canteens, and child-care facilities proved too costly...
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (1): 99–106.
Published: 01 March 2018
...— mostly widows and their children—live in a strip of apartment buildings maintained by a local charity. Living collectively in a female-dominated environment holds a number of benefits. There is scope to share child-care responsibilities, which can be a huge challenge for women seeking to enter...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 21–25.
Published: 01 September 2017
... children from parents, husbands from wives, and grandparents from their grandchildren. For people like Muhado, reaching the £18,600 salary is difficult. She works in a beauty shop three days a week, but her child-care challenges make it virtually impossible to take on more hours. “I can’t work two jobs...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (2): 3–6.
Published: 01 June 2013
... if it can’t close the poverty gap. The solution is to create jobs that pay a living wage. A living wage looks at the cost of a basket of basic goods (shelter, food, clothing, transportation, child care) in a particular city or region as well as the available government supports. In Vancouver, Canada’s...
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (1): 42–47.
Published: 01 March 2018
... is going to get much worse under Trump. Women, whether or not they’re fully cognizant of all of that political economy, feel it. There’s only so much that people are willing to take. Even Republican women who may have voted for Trump are suffering because child care is so unaffordable. I think women...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (1): 70–80.
Published: 01 March 2014
..., polystyrene, and balloons. Xoliswa’s mother, who earns a precarious living through child-care and occasional laundry orders, speaks little English and could offer no assistance. Worse yet, Xoliswa had never heard of paper maché or polystyrene. She arrived with a small packet of water balloons at the Learning...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 28–35.
Published: 01 September 2017
... the responsibilities of the “traditional” family to advance a gutting of public assistance for elder care and child care, increasing the burden of family-care work already disproportionally borne by women. In this way, proposed revisions to Article 24 also demonstrate a trend toward a kind of symbiotic alliance...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (3): 88–97.
Published: 01 September 2013
... of sewing machines. In 2009, she leveraged her new skills into a promotion to sewing machine operator with a salary of $62.50 a month, covering food, rent, and clothing, as well as the $12 a month she spends on child care as her husband, a rickshaw driver, prefers to sleep all day and refuses to babysit...
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World Policy Journal (2004) 20 (4): 48–56.
Published: 01 December 2004
... with problems of pornography and
disappeared, and consumer goods are widely anti-feminism, and reductions in child-care
available. In Russia and most of Eastern and maternity benefits. To add insult to in
Europe, the private sector now accounts for jury, in almost every postcommunist state,
over half...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (1): 90–98.
Published: 01 March 2014
... churches in London—a phenomenon explained by a large influx of immigrants from Africa during that period. There are currently no legal requirements for minimum levels of theological training or commitment to child protection to establish such a church. Simply stated, anyone can start a Pentecostal church...
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (1): 91–98.
Published: 01 March 2018
... and elsewhere. The other explanations for why infertility rates might be increasing are directly linked to China’s so-called “one-child policy.” With intense competition among the first one-child cohorts (currently in their 30s and 20s) for the best universities, best jobs, and indeed best marriage partners...
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