Kate Hill
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780719081156
- eISBN:
- 9781526115058
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719081156.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This chapter examines women working in museums, paid or as volunteers, in curatorial roles or in secretarial, cleaning, or other positions. It shows that while women had some difficulty accessing ...
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This chapter examines women working in museums, paid or as volunteers, in curatorial roles or in secretarial, cleaning, or other positions. It shows that while women had some difficulty accessing curatorial roles, they used non-curatorial roles and volunteering to make space in museums, from which they might also undertake curatorial work; women were less compartmentalised than their job descriptions implied. It also explores the process of professionalisation in museums during the period, and finds that although it privileged men, it was incomplete and inconsistent, and also created opportunities for women. Women found roles undertaking repetitive and detailed work, working with children, and communicating with the general public.Less
This chapter examines women working in museums, paid or as volunteers, in curatorial roles or in secretarial, cleaning, or other positions. It shows that while women had some difficulty accessing curatorial roles, they used non-curatorial roles and volunteering to make space in museums, from which they might also undertake curatorial work; women were less compartmentalised than their job descriptions implied. It also explores the process of professionalisation in museums during the period, and finds that although it privileged men, it was incomplete and inconsistent, and also created opportunities for women. Women found roles undertaking repetitive and detailed work, working with children, and communicating with the general public.
Myra Strober and John Donahoe
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780262034388
- eISBN:
- 9780262332095
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262034388.003.0001
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Public and Welfare
The chapter begins with my meeting with the chair of the economics department at Berkeley to find out why I am a lecturer and not an assistant professor. My frustration with the conversation leads to ...
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The chapter begins with my meeting with the chair of the economics department at Berkeley to find out why I am a lecturer and not an assistant professor. My frustration with the conversation leads to my reading Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s Declaration of Sentiments, and I begin to understand how I’m being “closed out” by a male monopoly. Stanton’s insistence that women “fight” and enlist male allies in our battles becomes my life-long creed.
I learn that most women faculty at Berkeley are lecturers, that they have filed a complaint of sex discrimination against the university with the U.S. Department of Labor, and that investigators from the federal government will soon be coming to campus to examine the complaint. I describe how my newly found feminist consciousness profoundly affects both my marriage and my decision to refocus my academic work on women’s employment. The chapter ends with Lloyd Ullman agreeing to teach one of my courses so that I can teach a course on women and work.Less
The chapter begins with my meeting with the chair of the economics department at Berkeley to find out why I am a lecturer and not an assistant professor. My frustration with the conversation leads to my reading Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s Declaration of Sentiments, and I begin to understand how I’m being “closed out” by a male monopoly. Stanton’s insistence that women “fight” and enlist male allies in our battles becomes my life-long creed.
I learn that most women faculty at Berkeley are lecturers, that they have filed a complaint of sex discrimination against the university with the U.S. Department of Labor, and that investigators from the federal government will soon be coming to campus to examine the complaint. I describe how my newly found feminist consciousness profoundly affects both my marriage and my decision to refocus my academic work on women’s employment. The chapter ends with Lloyd Ullman agreeing to teach one of my courses so that I can teach a course on women and work.
Jean Drèze
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780198833468
- eISBN:
- 9780191871900
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198833468.003.0004
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Development, Growth, and Environmental
This chapter makes the case for free midday meals in Indian schools. School meals have wide‐ranging social benefits. First, they help to ensure regular school attendance. Second, they contribute to ...
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This chapter makes the case for free midday meals in Indian schools. School meals have wide‐ranging social benefits. First, they help to ensure regular school attendance. Second, they contribute to better child nutrition. Third, midday meals help to impart egalitarian values among children, who learn to sit together and share a meal irrespective of caste and class. Fourth, India's school meal programme is a major source of employment for poor rural women, and also helps other women to join the workforce by liberating them from the burden of having to prepare lunch for their children. All this, of course, depends on midday meals meeting adequate quality standards. In that respect, one recent breakthrough in many Indian states is the inclusion of eggs in school meals. Alas, this is being resisted in some states under the influence of upper‐caste vegetarian lobbies.Less
This chapter makes the case for free midday meals in Indian schools. School meals have wide‐ranging social benefits. First, they help to ensure regular school attendance. Second, they contribute to better child nutrition. Third, midday meals help to impart egalitarian values among children, who learn to sit together and share a meal irrespective of caste and class. Fourth, India's school meal programme is a major source of employment for poor rural women, and also helps other women to join the workforce by liberating them from the burden of having to prepare lunch for their children. All this, of course, depends on midday meals meeting adequate quality standards. In that respect, one recent breakthrough in many Indian states is the inclusion of eggs in school meals. Alas, this is being resisted in some states under the influence of upper‐caste vegetarian lobbies.
