Gender,
Work and Reproduction
The purpose
of this project is to identity strategies for combining production and
reproduction in societies where there is a rapidly decreasing difference
between the proportion of men and women in employment. The in-depth interviews
and questionnaires in The Nineties Report were concerned primarily with
views on work, the family and children. This material has been the subject
of analysis for the last two years.
In parallel
with the collection of material a global network was set up for the purpose
of comparative studies of different cultures with regard to strategies
for combining production and reproduction. The project leader is on the
board of the Women's International Health Network and an active member
of Terra Femina, which arranged workshops on this theme both at the UN
Conference on Population and Development in Cairo in 1994 and the follow-up
Conference on Poverty and Development in Copenhagen in March, 1995. Collaboration
has now also been established with the Division of Health Promotion, Education
and Communication at the WHO in Geneva (Director: Ilona Kikbuch). During
the last year, interviews have been conducted with young people in other
countries with a view to identifying common strategies in widely differing
cultures.
©2010
Bi Puranen
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