On Holiday 

 

 

 

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Group members:

                     

Alja

Maja

Silvana

Tjaša

 

Distribution of roles:

 

Leader: Tjaša

Secretary: Silvana

Reporter: Maja

Time-keeper: Alja

  

 

BALANCING FORMAL WORK AND FAMILY

 

 LIFE OF AN   EMPLOYED WOMAN   

  

 

Definition:

Since always woman is a symbol of informal work, where she was specially in the past expected to stay at home to take care for children and the household. However, nowadays woman is getting more and more involved into the labour market, where she wants to create her own career or just help to support family. Although she is still supposed to participate in family life, mainly as the person who coordinate family life and take care of household chores. Regarding this, we are mainly interested how an employed woman balance on the one hand formal work and on the other hand duties of a family life. It appers that woman is capable of balancing both sides, what is seen on daily basis, but the question is to what extent?

 

 

Research questios:

How an employed woman balance formal work with family life and how much time per day she spends for formal work and how much for family life? 

   

 

10 working questions:

1. Who is an employed woman? Silvana
2. How is family life defined? Silvana
3. How is work defined? Tjaša
4. What is considered as success? Silvana 
5. What is the difference between formal and informal work and which activities are included? Tjaša
6. Are women who are classified higher on the social scale more successful in balancing family life with work? Silvana
7. Does socialization play a great role in division of informal work? Alja
8. What motivates women to coordinate career and family life? Tjaša
9. How did the situation of women life change during the history? Maja
10. Who does the majority of household – man or woman? Tjaša

  

Glossary

Household chores - hišna opravila

Domestic chores - gospodinjska opravila

Undeclared work - neprijavljeno delo

Labour market - trg delovne sile

Division of work - delitev dela

Work-family balance - uravnavanje dela in družine istočasno

Work shift - izmensko delo

Family friendly enterprise certificate - Certifikat Družini prijazno podjetje

Assisstence network - socialno omrežje

Gainful work - pridobitno delo (opravljeno za denar)

Empowerment - opolnomočenje

Social scale - družbena lestvica

Helpdesk - služba za pomoč

 

List of literature:

1. Haralambos, Michael and Martin Holborn. 2001. Sociologija: Teme in pogledi. Ljubljana: DZS.

2. Giddens, Anthony, ur. 2005. Sociology. Cambridge: Polity press.

3. Barle-Lakota, A. [et. al.]. 2004. Sociologija. Ljubljana: DZS

4. Žakelj, Tjaša and Švab, Alenka. 2009. Usklajevanje dela in družine med zakonodajnimi spodbudami in vsakdanjim življenjem. Socialno delo 48 (4): 215-226. Access: http://web.ebscohost.com.nukweb.nuk.uni-lj.si/ehost/pdf?vid=4&hid=101&sid=b57aa108-551c-4b9a-a90e-8b4ad9fe9bc0%40sessionmgr112 (on March 29 2010)

5. Schindler Zimmerman, Toni, A. Haddock, Shelley, R. Current, Lisa and Ziemba, Scott. 2003. Intimate Partnership: Foundation to the Successful Balance of Family and Work.The American Journal of Family Therapy, 31: 107–124. Access: http://web.ebscohost.com.nukweb.nuk.uni-lj.si/ehost/pdf?vid=6&hid=101&sid=b57aa108-551c-4b9a-a90e-8b4ad9fe9bc0%40sessionmgr112 (on March 29 2010)

6. Aliaga, Christel. How is the time of women and men distributed in Europe?. 2006. Eurostat: Population and social conditions — Statistics in focus 4/2006. Access: http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_OFFPUB/KS-NK-06-004/EN/KS-NK-06-004-EN.PDF (on March 29 2010)

7. McLaren, P. G. and Mills, A. J.. 2008. A production of ''his'' time? Exploring the construct of the ideal manager in the Cold War era. Journal of management history 14(4), p. 386 - 403

8. Stropnik, N., Žaucer Šefman, B., Kanjuo Mrčela, A. in Černigoj Sadar, N., ur. 2007. DELO IN DRUŽINA: S partnerstvom do družini prijaznega delovnega okolja. Ljubljana: Fakulteta za družbene vede
9. Nathanson, E. 2009. As easy as pie: Cooking shows, domestic efficiency, and Postfeminist temporality. SAGE Publications Volume 10 Number 4: 311-330. Access: http://tvn.sagepub.com.nukweb.nuk.uni-lj.si/cgi/reprint/10/4/311 (on April 4 2010)

    

    

    

 

Minutes of the 1st meeting "Project based learning"

(The meeting was held on the 9th of March from 8.00 am to 10.00 am at the FDV library)

  

Present: Alja, Silvana, Tjaša, Maja

Absent: /

  

Agenda:

1. Selecting topic
2. Defining the problem
3. Distribution of roles
4. Any other business

Item 1:

 

Item 2:

Discussion:  We considered what our main topic would be. While defining the problem, we focused mainly on the woman's life, expectations of society and her ability to fulfil her wishes and her role of socialized woman in society.

 

Item 3:

Discussion: For efficiency while making our assigment,  we agreed to distribute roles among us. We agreed that this is the best way to realize what we had planned.

Decision: We unanimmously agreed on deviding the roles to each individual. Our leader became Tjaša, secretary Silvana, reporter Maja and last but not least time-keeper Alja.

 

Item 4:

Discussion: We talked about finding the right literature. Maja suggested that everybody finds appropriate literature for one topic in our work and add it to wiki page. We all think this is a great idea. About developing the thesis. Alja thought it would be the best if we sent all thesis to one person and on Thursday we check and fix them.

 

 

Minutes of the 2nd meeting "Project based learning"

(The meeting was held on the 16th of March from 8.00 am to 10.00 am at the FDV library)

 

Present: Alja, Silvana, Tjaša, Maja

Absent: /

  

Agenda:

1. Forming the research questions

2. Forming 10 working questions

3. List of literature

4. Any other bussines

 

Item 1: 

Discussion: We discussed how to properly form the questions so that all the main research problems are covered.

Decison: We decided to form the research questions that are based on our main focus. That is  balancing family life with work in woman's point of view.

 

Item 2: 

Discussion: We discussed forming working question that is related to our research questions. 

Decison: We all agreed to devide the research questions to 10 suitable working questions that can be seen under the definition of the problem on this page. 

 

Item 3: 

Discussion: We discused about the suitable literature.

Decison:  We all agreed that our main source of in formation will be the artical form The American Journal of Family Therapy ''Successful Balance of Family and Work'' from Schindler Zimmerman and others.

 

Item 4: 

There was no any other business to discuss.

 

Minutes taker: Silvana

Chair: Alja

 

 

Minutes of the 3rd meeting "Project based learning"

(The meeting was held on the 23th of March from 8.00 am to 10.00 am at the FDV library)

 

 

Present: Alja, Silvana, Tjaša, Maja

Absent: /

 

Agenda:

1. Distribution of tasks

2. Forming the questionnaire

3. Any other bussines 

 

Item 1: 

Discussion: We first discussed about the division of tasks. Silvana suggested that we should all equaly divide them, so we looked through all the given tasks and each of us decided which does she prefer. Alja and Tjaša picked the same task, so Alja volunteerly passed her task to Tjaša and decieded to pick onother task.

Decision: It was agreed which working questions will be researched by each member.each member.  

 

 

Item 2: 

Discussion: Secondly we had to consider how we will form our questionnarie. Maja proposed 15 questions, which we mutually designed the questionns.

Decision: We picked 13 most appropriate questions which now consist our questionnaire.

 

Item 3: 

There was no any other business to discuss.

 

Minutes taker: Silvana

Chair: Alja

 

 

 

 

 

*1Sunset in Cauhita, Costa Rica

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(9th March 2010)

 

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