| Differentiating between Vocations and Careers |
Professor John Cullen from the National University of Ireland discusses the change effected in career planning upon considering an occupation as a 'vocation' rather than a 'job'. Viewing careers as vocations honour the values of the employee as opposed to 'filling a gap' in the labour market. HRF would ask the ramifications of applying the term vocation to work in the home and how this might challenge popular assumptions.
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| Differentiating between Vocations and Careers |
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| Tidier homes, fitter bodies? |
Research carried out by Dr. Nicole Keith of the Indiana University suggests that there is a link between the cleanliness in the home and maintaining a healthy level of physical activity. "Are the types of people who take care of their bodies the same types of people who take care of their homes?"
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| Housework Before Rock For Dave Grohl |
| It is not the Rockstar lifestyle that is often presented to the public, but Foo Fighter’s front man Dave Grohl appreciates the role housework plays in his family life and in keeping his feet on the ground despite the band’s success. |
| Housework Before Rock For Dave Grohl |
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| The simmering but stymied rage of stay-at-home mums |
| An article that portrays a different perspective on the controversial child benefit cuts in the UK. According to Rachel Cusk, ‘For middle class women child benefit is not just about money. It is a rare acknowledgement that their labour has value.’ |
| The simmering but stymied rage of stay-at-home mums |
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| Media Ignore the Importance of Housework in Divorce Rates and Career Advancement |
by Londa Schiebinger and Lori Mackenzie
The article looks at two different studies, LSE researcher Dr. Wendy Sigle-Rushton’s study linking the amount of time husbands spend in housework with divorce rates and a study carried out at Clayman Institute Gender Research at Stanford University which looked at the role housework plays in academic scientists’ productivity. Based on these studies, the authors recommend professionalising household labour. |
| Media Ignore the Importance of Housework in Divorce Rates and Career Advancement |
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| How to Hoover up those housework blues |
by Danielle Raine
Danielle Raine, author of Housework Blues: A Survival Guide explains how she came to realise how important housework is through a change in attitude and the discovery that professional skills could be used to run a home more efficiently. |
| How to Hoover up those housework blues |
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| The Sustainable Family |
The International Institute for Family Research
The Family Watch is a think tank committed to researching the family and finding solutions to the problems it faces. The Institute uses inter-disciplinary research to analyse the social context families find themselves in today. Findings are presented in the form of reports, proposals and initiatives that aim to deepen society’s knowledge of the family and encourage its fair treatment based on the functions it performs in society.
The organisation was founded in 2007 under the inspiration of the International Federation for Family Development (IFFD), a worldwide organisation that coordinates initiatives in favour of Family Orientation. The IFFD is present in more than 50 countries and has been conferred Special Consultative Status on the Economic and Social Committee (ECOSOC) of the United Nations. It also chairs the NGOs Committee of the United Nations for the Family in Vienna and has standing representation at the UN’s main headquarters in New York, Geneva and Vienna.
Its main activities include publishing research papers, exchanging information and services, integrating initiatives, promoting teaching activities and research projects, content production, and organising events geared towards the promotion, creation and presentation of awards.
The Honorary Patrons of this Institute include authorities from different academic disciplines. It also boasts of an International Advisory Committee formed of representatives from more than 40 different countries. |
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| A Global Heart Transplant |
| By Maria Pia Chirinos
There are some topics that usually get written off because they are considered to be either a minefield of stereotypes (feminist claims), easily manipulated (immigration), or not worth discussing at all (housework). The combination of these themes can be explosive because it highlights something that is rarely brought up in debates about immigration: the care children and the elderly receive in First World countries is given at the expense of immigrant women who stop looking after their own children in their countries of origin. |
| A Global Heart Transplant |
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| 21st century housewives: at home and proud of it |
By Lesley Thomas, The Sunday Times
As the neo-conservative housewife has given up her high-status job to stay at home with her children and the housework surely the suffragettes must be turning in their graves! In fact if money were not an issue most mothers would prefer not to go out to work at all. |
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