Gender Differences in Class Mobility: A Comparative Study of the United States, Sweden, and West Germany

Li, Jiang Hong

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“…Amft even argues that women have had to subordinate themselves as women in order to be viewed as “genuine” Sami, thereby “contributing to their own marginalization and helping to maintain their subordinate position in Sami society” (Amft 2000, p. 202). Researchers have found that Sami women’s access to property has been restricted (Li and Singlemann 1998; Kuokkanen 2009; Amft 2000) and, over time, many women have left the ‘traditional Sami lifestyle’ in search of gainful employment or education elsewhere (Kuokkanen 2009). …”

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What’s counted as a reindeer herder? Gender and the adaptive capacity of Sami reindeer herding communities in Sweden

Buchanan

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Lidestav

2016

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Researchers of adaptive capacity and sustainable livelihoods have frequently used social, cultural, human, economic and institutional capitals to better understand how rural and resource-dependent communities address environmental, social and economic stresses. Yet few studies have considered how men and women contribute differently to these capitals to support community resilience overall. Our research sought to understand the differential contributions of Sami men and women to the adaptive capacity of reindeer husbandry and reindeer herding communities in northern Sweden. Our focus revealed a gendered division of labour in reindeer herding as an economic enterprise as well as gendered contributions to a broader conceptualization of reindeer husbandry as a family and community-based practice, and as a livelihood and cultural tradition. Based on our results, we recommend that community resilience be enhanced by generating more opportunities for men to achieve higher levels of human and economic capital (particularly outside of herding activities) and encouraging women to contribute more directly to institutional capital by participating in the formation and implementation of legislation, policies and plans.

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What’s counted as a reindeer herder? Gender and the adaptive capacity of Sami reindeer herding communities in Sweden

Buchanan

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2016

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“…In comparative perspective, social democratic-informed policies positively affected women's labour force longevity as evidenced by Swedish women less frequent job interruptions. The high labour force participation among Swedish women took the form of additional part-time employment (Clement and Myles 1994: 130); 72 per cent of women with children under the age of 7 continued participating in the labour force by working part-time (Hong Li and Singelmann 1998).…”

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Compromising positions: emergent neo‐Fordisms and embedded gender contracts

Gottfried

2000

British Journal of Sociology

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This paper adopts a regulation framework to chart the emergence of neo-Fordism as a flexible accumulation regime and mode of social regulation. Neo-Fordism relies on old Fordist principles as well as incorporating new models of emergent post-Fordisms; old and new social relationships, in their particular combination, specify the trajectory of national variants. I argue that Fordist bargains institutionalized the terms of a compromise between labour, capital and the state. These bargains embedded a male-breadwinner gender contract compromising women's positions and standardizing employment contracts around the needs, interests and authority of men. A focus on compromises and contracts makes visible the differentiated gender effects of work transformation in each country.

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Gender Differences in Class Mobility: A Comparative Study of the United States, Sweden, and West Germany

Cited by 7 publications

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What’s counted as a reindeer herder? Gender and the adaptive capacity of Sami reindeer herding communities in Sweden

What’s counted as a reindeer herder? Gender and the adaptive capacity of Sami reindeer herding communities in Sweden

Compromising positions: emergent neo‐Fordisms and embedded gender contracts

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