Dynamika domácích prací z globálního hlediska

• Authors: Hendlova T.

Title variants

EN

DOMESTIC WORK DYNAMICS FROM THE GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The article covers the topic of women's migration from poorer countries to the so called First World to provide domestic work and care giving. On the one hand, their movement is caused by the demand for domestic labor in rich countries where double career couples resolve the dilemma of reconciliation of public and private spheres by externalization of domestic work. On the other hand, the supply is significant. Migration and provision of domestic service is often the only survival strategy available to women from developing countries due to high unemployment and few working opportunities. The practice of hiring a migrant as domestic worker creates global care chains (Hochschild, 2001) that connect women engaged in care giving - those who are postponing it and those who are providing it. Migrant women hold an unequal position in these chains. They comprise a cheap labor in the informal private sector and so are vulnerable to abusive treatment. To tackle such discrimination, the patriarchal system stereotyping both women's and men's roles has to be challenged on the both sides of the care chain: in the developed as well developing countries.

Keywords

EN

DOMESTIC WORK; MIGRATION; WOMEN

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Gender, rovné příležitosti, výzkum (Gender, Equal Opportunities, Research)
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 6-13
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Hendlova T.

• T. Hendlova, Department of Gender studies, Faculty of Humanities, CharlesUniversity, Husnikova 2075, 158 00 Prague 13, Czech Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07CZAAAA02765646