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Young migrant woman worker weeding sugar beets at Fort Collins, United States in 1972. Women migrant workers tend to be concentrated in a narrow range of highly gendered professions, including both unregulated industries such as agriculture, domestic and care work, and the sex industry, [4] as well as highly skilled professions such as nursing ...
[clarification needed] Combined with a scarcity of jobs at home, that has led numbers of Native Indonesians to seek work abroad. It is estimated that around 4.5 million Indonesians work abroad; 70% of them are women: most are employed in the domestic sector as maids and in the manufacturing sector. Most of them are between 18 and 35 years old.
Gender roles vary by society, but are often based in social ideas that women have different natural abilities and a more suitable temperament for certain work as compared to men. [4] Typically, women have been the preferred labor force in export-oriented factories because they allow for lower unit labor costs.
Indonesian migrant workers (Indonesian: Pekerja Migran Indonesia, PMI, formerly known as Tenaga Kerja Indonesia, TKI) are Indonesian citizens who work in countries outside of Indonesia. Indonesia's population is the world's fourth-largest, and due to a shortage of domestic jobs, many Indonesians seek employment overseas.
Where Women Work: 20 Most Common Occupations. Lisa Johnson Mandell. Updated July 14, 2016 at 9:06 PM. ... things haven't changed much for the working woman during the past 50 years.
What a Woman Ought to Be and to Do: Black Professional Women Workers during the Jim Crow Era (Women in Culture and Society Series) by Stephanie J. Shaw; In Subordination: Professional Women, 1870–1970 by Mary Kinnear (1995) Women Working in Nontraditional Fields References and Resources 1963–1988 (Women's Studies Series) by Carroll Wetzel ...
Domestic work is the single most important category of employment among women migrants to the Arab States of the Persian Gulf and Lebanon and Jordan. The increase of Arab women in the labour force, and changing conceptions of women's responsibilities, have resulted in a shift in household responsibilities to hired domestic workers.
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