Illusion or Realities: Workplace Experiences of Self-Employed Women

Informal economy includes varied set of economic activities, enterprises, jobs, and workers. The economy typically consists of enterprises and/or people that are not regulated or protected by the state. The concept originally applied to self-employment in small unregistered enterprises. It has been expanded to include wage employment in unprotected jobs. A home-based self-employed women worker can be involved as a fashion designer, a tiffin service provider, a home tutor, a person working with vendors, selling and reselling apparel, accessories to name a few. Informal self-employment is very large and heterogeneous as a category itself. There are different people working within in an informally self-employed category. The review tries to understand home based business women within the ambit of informal employment. The focus of research turns to technological advancement, social media and its impact on womens economic and business efforts. The review, using a feminist lens, understands academic researches on womens economic efforts. The reviews focus will largely be owners and own account (individually run enterprises) women workers of informal enterprises in urban areas which for ease of reference, I have termed as home-based self-employed urban woman.

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Impact of COVID-19 on mental health of employed women residing in Delhi-NCR, India: Mediating role of working from-for home

Health Care For Women International ◽

10.1080/07399332.2021.1882463 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-12

Author(s):

Vanshika Beri

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Mediating Role ◽

Employed Women

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Physical Disability at Work: How Functional Limitation Affects Perceived Discrimination and Interpersonal Relationships in the Workplace

Journal of Health and Social Behavior ◽

10.1177/00221465211023424 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 002214652110234

Author(s):

Deborah Carr ◽

Eun Ha Namkung

Keyword(s):

Interpersonal Relationships ◽

Physical Disability ◽

Functional Limitation ◽

The United States ◽

Coworker Support ◽

Workplace Experiences ◽

Occupation Group ◽

Midlife Development ◽

Using Data ◽

Research And Policy

Adults with disability have significantly lower rates of labor force participation relative to persons without disability, although it is unclear whether this disparity extends to subjective workplace experiences. Using data from the 2004 to 2006 wave of the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States (n =2,030), we evaluate: (1) whether U.S. workers with physical disability report higher levels of perceived job discrimination and unequal workplace opportunities and lower levels of supervisor and coworker support and (2) whether these patterns differ by sex, age, and occupation group. We find that workers with physical disability fare significantly worse on all four outcomes net of covariates. Disability takes a particularly large toll on men’s perceived workplace opportunities and white-collar employees’ relationships with coworkers. Young adult workers (ages 30–39) with disability report significantly more support from their supervisor relative to their counterparts without disability. We discuss implications for research and policy.

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Understanding professional distress through social representations: Investigating the shared experience of healthcare social workers in Canada

International Social Work ◽

10.1177/0020872820967428 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 002087282096742

Author(s):

Lilian Negura ◽

Maude Lévesque

Keyword(s):

Social Workers ◽

Subjective Experience ◽

Social Representations ◽

Social Representation ◽

Front Line ◽

Shared Experience ◽

Organizational Contexts ◽

Workplace Experiences ◽

The Social ◽

Canadian Provinces

Our study sought to refine our understanding of professional distress by examining the experience of healthcare social workers in the following three Canadian provinces: Manitoba, Ontario and New Brunswick. Thirty semi-directed interviews were conducted to explore the social workers’ social representation of professional distress and its ties to professional identity and growing organizational constraints. Attitudes, work–life imbalances, and negative workplace experiences were found to increase the subjective experience of distress. Current psychosocial and organizational contexts of front-line practitioners are contributors to their professional distress, a matter further exacerbated by the misrepresentation of social work by colleagues and service beneficiaries.

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