Women's Studies 1022F/G Lecture : Readings
27 Apr 2018
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The End of Men
• Earlier this year, women became the majority of the workforce for the first time in U.S.
history. Most managers are now women too. And for every two men who get a college
degree this year, three women will do the same.
• And the global economy is evolving in a way that is eroding the historical preference for
male children, worldwide.
• Woe doiate today’s colleges ad professioal schools
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Working the Night Shift: Gender and the Global Economy
• mobility is important because it requires night shift workers. For a woman in India to be
out at this hour is generally considered improper and unsafe.
• the night shift requirements of the global economy, is met with covert resistance.
Although there are no visible barriers such as “men only” signs written into public space,
women’s bodies continue to be marked as a site of transgression.
• examines the relationship between the physical, temporal, and socioeconomic mobility of
Indian women working in transnational call centers.
• The urban nightscape is primarily a male domain that often represents danger and spaces
of exclusion for women. For instance, Article 66(b) of the Indian 1948 Factories Act
states: no women shall be required or allowed to work in any factory except between the
hours of 6 A.M. and 7 P.M. (Office of the Labour Commissioner, 2006). Only as of
March, 2005, was this act amended to provide women the opportunity to work the night
shift.
• Phrases such as “working the night shift” also bring forth gender, class, and caste
connotations such as prostitution and lower-class/caste status. An infusion of educated,
middle and upper-class women into the urban nightscape via the night shift requirement
of transnational call center employment provides a new framework upon which to
investigate women’s mobility and spatial access.
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Document Summary
The end of men: earlier this year, women became the majority of the workforce for the first time in u. s. history. Working the night shift: gender and the global economy: mobility is important because it requires night shift workers. For a woman in india to be out at this hour is generally considered improper and unsafe. the night shift requirements of the global economy, is met with covert resistance. Although there are no visible barriers such as men only signs written into public space, women"s bodies continue to be marked as a site of transgression: examines the relationship between the physical, temporal, and socioeconomic mobility of. Indian women working in transnational call centers: the urban nightscape is primarily a male domain that often represents danger and spaces of exclusion for women.
