Unit 5: Tools for mainstreaming gender concerns
References
Methods of information collection
Anker R. 1983. "Female Labour Force Participation: ILO Research on Conceptual and Measurement Issues." Geneva: ILO.
ILO Library: 83B09/433 English
LABORDOC: 154331
This is a conference paper on data collecting methodology for the measurement of women workers’ labour force participation in developing countries. It shows how sex bias in definitions and questionnaire design contributes to the systematic under-reporting of women’s economic activity. It discusses alternative approaches, including an activity-time budget questionnaire and less market orientation in research design.
Anker R. 1983. "Female Labour Force Participation in Developing Countries: A Critique of Current Definitions and Data Collection Methods." In International Labour Review, 122 (6), Nov.-Dec. Geneva: ILO.
ILO Library: 83P09602
LABORDOC: 156009
This article on data collection for the measurement of women workers’ labour force participation in developing countries attributes the under-reporting of women’s economic role to sex bias in definition, questionnaire design, and the interviewers. it proposes four alternative definitions as well as a questionnaire based on a simplified activity-time budget approach, using results from a field study of Indian rural women to substantiate the argument.
Goldschmidt-Clermont, L. 1982, 4th impression 1989. Unpaid work in the household: a review of economic evaluation methods. Women, Work and Development, 1. Geneva: ILO.
Goldschmidt-Clermont, L. 1987. Economic evaluations of unpaid household work: Africa, Asia, Latin America and Oceania. Women, Work and Development, 14. Geneva: ILO.
Gonzalez P. and M.J. Watts. 1996. Measuring Gender Wage Differentials and Job Segregation. Equality of Women in Employment Working Paper No. 24. Geneva: ILO.
ILO Library: 96B09/32 English
LABORDOC: 265753
Oppong C. and K. Abu. 1985. Handbook for Data Collection and Analysis on Seven Roles and Statuses of Women. Geneva: ILO.
ILO Library: 85B09/565 English
LABORDOC: 178247
This manual provides a more systematic conceptual framework for the cross-cultural collection and analysis of data relevant to the testing of hypotheses and the development of theoretical models regarding the changing social roles and status of women. It describes a conceptual framework for the classification and analysis of data on seven different kinds of roles played by women in their societies and a brief consideration of men’s reciprocal roles, i.e., parental, occupational, conjugal. domestic, kind, community and individual. It discusses techniques such as interviewing, questionnaires, and recording of biographical information, giving examples of role profiles.
Siltaten Janet, Jennifer Jarman and Robert M. Blackburn. Gender inequality in the labour market: occupational concentration and segregation. A manual on methodology. Geneva: ILO.
This user-friendly manual, which can be used as a self-learning or as a teaching tool, guides readers through all stages in producing data on occupational concentration and segregation. It clarifies concepts and measures, discusses quality and availability of information, and reviews various methodological tools, using well-known statistical software packages. Essential for researchers and analysis’s of occupational data.
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