Women's Experiences Navigating Paid Work and Caregiving During the COVID‐19 Pandemic

Lindsay M. Woodbridge; Byeolbee Um; David K. Duys

doi:10.1002/cdq.12274

Women's Experiences Navigating Paid Work and Caregiving During the COVID‐19 Pandemic

The Career Development Quarterly ◽

10.1002/cdq.12274 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 69 (4) ◽

pp. 284-298

Author(s):

Lindsay M. Woodbridge ◽

Byeolbee Um ◽

David K. Duys

Keyword(s):

Paid Work ◽

Women’S Experiences ◽

Women's Experiences

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Women’s experiences of combining eldercare and paid work in the Scottish food retail sector

Health Sociology Review ◽

10.5172/hesr.2007.16.3-4.292 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 16 (3-4) ◽

pp. 292-303 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Laura Airey ◽

Linda McKie ◽

Kathryn Backett-Milburn

Keyword(s):

Retail Sector ◽

Paid Work ◽

Food Retail ◽

Women’S Experiences ◽

Women's Experiences

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‘Toil in the factory, toil in the home’

Bread Winner ◽

10.12987/yale/9780300230062.003.0007 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 160-190

Author(s):

Emma Griffin

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Labour Market ◽

Married Women ◽

Paid Work ◽

Women’S Experiences ◽

Women's Experiences ◽

Family Model ◽

Women's Participation ◽

Male Breadwinner ◽

Wide Range

This chapter takes a look at the kind of options which were available to married women without a reliable breadwinner for support, and how they were able to navigate their way through these options. It emphasises the remarkably stable nature of the married women's participation in the workplace. A wide range of economic measures have indicated that the economy underwent unprecedented growth and restructuring after 1830, yet none of these changes appear to have made much of an impact on the likelihood of married women participating in the labour market. Equally, the nineteenth century witnessed the emergence of the breadwinning family model — the ideological justification for higher male wages, a wage sufficient to support the male breadwinner and his dependent wife and children at home. Yet this too had very little impact on women's experiences, failing to raise male wages to a level at which paid work for married women became unnecessary in most families. Indeed, as the autobiographies in this chapter show, it becomes evident that married women's working patterns do not fit into our usual ways of conceiving work at all.

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