Paid Work and Parenting

Prematurity and paid work during pregnancy.

Most enquiries into the causes of prematurity conclude that at least 50 per cent. of cases cannot be explained on medical grounds (Joint Committee of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the British Paediatric Association, 1949; Baird, 1953). In these cases pregnancy is clinically normal but nevertheless labour starts before the expected date, or, if the baby is born at ter...

Housework, paid work and psychiatric symptoms.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the hypothesis that work burden, the simultaneous engagement in paid work and unpaid family housework, is a potential risk factor for psychiatric symptoms among women. METHODS A cross-sectional study was carried out with 460 women randomly selected from a poor area of the city of Salvador, Brazil. Women between 18 to 70 years old, who reported having a paid occupation or...

Local Industrial Structure and Female Participation in Paid Work :

The objective of this paper is to examine the effect of local industrial structure on female participation in paid work. Specifically, the research aims at investigating the extent to which limits on women’s ability to commute restricts their ability to take paid jobs outside the government. As Egypt’s economy moves away from a state-led model to a greater market orientation, the position of wo...

Statistical Analysis of Time Spent on Unpaid and Paid Work

Beyond Mechanical Turk: An Analysis of Paid Crowd Work Platforms

While Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (AMT) helped launch online crowd work in 2005, a myriad of newer vendors now offer alternative feature sets and workflow models for accomplishing quality crowd work. Unfortunately, research on crowd work has remained largely focused on AMT, with little exploration of other platforms. Such near-exclusive focus on AMT risks its particular vagaries and limitations ov...