"Paid domestic work" as a tool for achieving gender equality or reproducing gender inequality
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Tarih
2020
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Peter Lang AG
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info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
Özet
Women's participation in the labour force has always been a problematic issue within the capitalist system. This study addressed the issue of "women (individual employers) who need the labour of another woman to work and exist in public space" and "women who labour in the private spaces of other women to make a living". Also, the study handled the role conflicts emerging in this interdependence relationship and the conflict of two female workers with different levels of income. Therefore, by using semi-structured in-depth interviews in the light of qualitative findings, the study investigated the role conflicts between two groups of women, one of which consists of 8 women who do housework and childcare as domestic workers and the other involving 6 women who are both registered in the system as their employers and also involved in the labour force as workers. According to the field findings, having women's free-of-charge housework and childcare at home done by another woman by purchasing their labour force has led to the reproduction of gender inequality, in exchange for money. In this case, housework and childcare remain as women's work. Gender equality is warranted only for women of the upper-middle class, who have this work done by other women of the lower class, instead of doing it themselves. The private space of the owner of the house is a public space for women working in home services. In this case, the house is the place where class conflict is produced with the private space/public space conflict and gender inequality is reproduced. © Peter Lang GmbH Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Berlin 2020. All rights reserved.
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Domestic worker, Gender inequality, Private space, Public space, Women's participation in the labour force
Kaynak
Labour in Turkey: Economic, Political and Social Perspectives
