‘An insufferable burden on businesses?’ On changing attitudes to maternity leave and economic-related issues in the Times and Daily Mail

Gómez-Jiménez, Eva

doi:10.1016/j.dcm.2018.06.002

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“…The company needs to invest other resources to ensure that the company's business is carried out correctly. The company's costs will gradually increase, and the company's profits will suffer as a result (Gomez-Jimenez, 2018). And the contents of the maternity leave policy reveal that maternity leave does not consider the self-employed.…”

Section: Maternity Leave Policymentioning

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The Impact of Maternity Benefit Policies on Women’s Willingness to Have a Second Child in Shanghai

Feng

2024

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In 2016, the two-child policy began to be implemented in China. And a maternity welfare policy was introduced at the same time to encourage women to have a second child. As Shanghai is an important city in China, it is essential to study women’s fertility intentions in Shanghai. The analysis of the impact of the fertility welfare policy can also be used as suggestive evidence of policy development. This dissertation analyses the impact of Shanghai’s fertility welfare policy on women’s fertility intentions to have a second children explores how to improve women’s fertility intentions and help implement the comprehensive two-child policy. The analysis found that each of the maternity benefit policies increased the willingness of some women in Shanghai to have a second child. However, some policies do not cover specific aspects that affect the willingness of some women to have a second child. It is recommended that these policies should be improved to increase the willingness of Shanghai women and geriatric mothers to have a second child so that the comprehensive two-child policy can be implemented more effectively.

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Section: Maternity Leave Policymentioning

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The Impact of Maternity Benefit Policies on Women’s Willingness to Have a Second Child in Shanghai

Feng

2024

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“…All that said, we know little from previous studies about how the representation of different forms of class inequality in the UK has changed since the 1970s, when economic differences in Britain began to increase. In this way, this paper is part of a larger body of corpus-assisted work (see Toolan, 2016;Toolan, 2018;Gómez-Jiménez, 2018;Gómez-Jiménez and Toolan, 2020) that aims to explore the representation of forms of class inequality in the last 50 years, based on the belief that newspaper discourse in the UK may have helped in naturalising inequality in British society, economically speaking. Results in this area have already demonstrated that class had mostly disappeared in 2013 TV reviews in the Daily Mail (Toolan, 2016), and that discussions about maternity leave benefits became monetized in the Times and Daily Mail in the late 1990s (Gómez-Jiménez, 2018).…”

Section: The (Changing) Discourse Of Economic Inequality In the Unite...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this way, this paper is part of a larger body of corpus-assisted work (see Toolan, 2016;Toolan, 2018;Gómez-Jiménez, 2018;Gómez-Jiménez and Toolan, 2020) that aims to explore the representation of forms of class inequality in the last 50 years, based on the belief that newspaper discourse in the UK may have helped in naturalising inequality in British society, economically speaking. Results in this area have already demonstrated that class had mostly disappeared in 2013 TV reviews in the Daily Mail (Toolan, 2016), and that discussions about maternity leave benefits became monetized in the Times and Daily Mail in the late 1990s (Gómez-Jiménez, 2018). In an attempt to adopt a more comprehensive approah, Toolan (2018) identified a number of significant patterns that implicitly changed the representation of this form of inequality in recent decades in the same newspapers.…”

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confidence: 99%

‘Rising Number of Homeless is the Legacy of Tory Failure’: Discoursal Changes and Transitivity Patterns in the Representation of Homelessness in The Guardian and Daily Mail from 2000 to 2018

Gómez-Jiménez

Bartley

2023

Applied Linguistics

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Experts in different fields have claimed that the UK has experienced a process of growing economic inequality since the 1970s. Following Fairclough’s dialectal-relational approach, this paper presents a detailed, systematic analysis of the representation of homeless people and homelessness in The Guardian and Daily Mail from 2000 to 2018, in order to explore how these have been discursively represented over time. Therefore, our study addresses two specific research questions: How have homelessness and homeless people been represented in the UK press? Are there any discoursal changes in representation with the passing of time? The analysis, which has employed mostly qualitative but also quantitative (statistical) methods drawing on corpus-assisted discourse analysis, is informed by the theory of transitivity within Systemic Functional Linguistics. Results indicate that, within an overall negative representation of homeless people and homelessness in this period, there have been some significant discoursal changes over time. As such, this paper contributes to critical discourse studies and transitivity research on a relevant social problem, that of growing economic inequality in the UK.

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“…Van der Bom et al's (2018) analysis of Twitter responses to the same television show also reveals that benefits claimants are regularly constructed as social parasites and as morally inadequate and members of a flawed underclass. Focusing on a particular type of state-backed benefit in the UK (i.e., maternity leave), Gómez-Jiménez (2018) shows how representations of maternity leave became monetarized by the British press (The Times and Daily Mail) in the last thirty years or so of the twentieth century . Two main discourses (or 'macrostructures') emerged during that time: one saw mothers-to-be as facing numerous problems; the other regarded changes in maternity leave policy (three during the period examined) as leading to negative consequences for British society.…”

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confidence: 99%

Poverty and social exclusion in Britain

Lorenzo-Dus¹,

Almaged²

2020

The Discursive Construction of Economic Inequality

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This study examines discursive representations of poverty and social exclusion by the leaders of the two main political parties in the UK (Labour and Conservative) across time.The political context selected for analysis is that of the parties' annual conferences, specifically all the speeches delivered by their leaders between 1900 and 2014 (c. 1 million words). Using a Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies methodology, we identify two recurring discourses of poverty and social exclusion in these speeches: we call these a finance discourse, which represents PSE in terms of economic and business needs, and a hardship discourse, where PSE are represented as various sources of struggle. The Labour Party favours the hardship discourse over the finance discourse; the Conservative Party displays the opposite trend. Notwithstanding this difference, our study primarily reveals commonalities across political party, time and discourse type. These include a tendency to describe poverty and social exclusion in terms of scale and to represent them as inert entities that need to be acted upon. In the party conference speeches we examine, political leaders tend to use third person deixis to distance themselves personally from the responsibility of intervening to alleviate poverty and social exclusion. A partial exception to this trend is observed post-2001. This may reflect the process of securitization that poverty is known to have undergone as a result, in particular, of terrorist attacks on the West in the twenty-first century.

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‘An insufferable burden on businesses?’ On changing attitudes to maternity leave and economic-related issues in the Times and Daily Mail

Abstract: Gomez-Jimenez, E 2018, ''An insufferable burden on businesses?' On changing attitudes to maternity leave and economic-related issues in the Times and Daily Mail', Discourse, Context and Media.

Cited by 4 publications

References 14 publications

The Impact of Maternity Benefit Policies on Women’s Willingness to Have a Second Child in Shanghai

The Impact of Maternity Benefit Policies on Women’s Willingness to Have a Second Child in Shanghai

‘Rising Number of Homeless is the Legacy of Tory Failure’: Discoursal Changes and Transitivity Patterns in the Representation of Homelessness in The Guardian and Daily Mail from 2000 to 2018

Poverty and social exclusion in Britain

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