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Shrestha, Mona (2013) Exploring gendered work and women's empowerment : a study of hotels, resorts and casinos in Nepal. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.
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Abstract
This thesis explores gendered work and women‟s empowerment in interactive service
work in Nepal, focusing on two five-star hotels, two deluxe resorts and two casinos.
It develops a conceptual framework to explore how gendered work and women‟s
empowerment are related, paying attention to the interactional and structural levels.
This feminist research uses mixed methods of 21 questionnaires to gather quantitative
data that shed light on the gendered workforce. Qualitative data is derived from 65
interviews (semi-structured and in-depth) with male and female workers, managers,
male family members and policy experts, two focus group discussions with women
working in two casinos and observations in the six sample establishments.
The study makes three arguments. First, gendered work is constructed by three
distinct but related dimensions, namely: the gender division of labour; the gendered
ideologies of managers and workers; and the gendering of skills provided through
training. Second, workers, to a variable extent, perform gendered emotional, aesthetic
and (hetero) sexualised labour and such performances shape and are shaped by
gendered work. Third, women‟s paid work empowers them to some extent at an
individual level; however, structural constraints continue to impede their
empowerment.
The thesis makes theoretical as well as empirical contributions to existing knowledge.
Theoretically, it contributes to understanding of the relationship between gendered
work and empowerment in which structural context is of critical significance. At the
empirical level, this makes an original contribution to the analysis of interactive
service work in Nepal.
The thesis finds that women doing gendered work are to some extent empowered at
the individual level and perhaps „doing‟ gender per se is not a problem. However,
structural constraints continue to impede women‟s empowerment, despite some
gradual changes. The thesis also finds that the hotel and casino sector are not
feminised in contrast to studies conducted in the „West‟.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Sexual division of labor -- Nepal, Women -- Employment -- Nepal, Casinos -- Employees -- Nepal, Hotels -- Employees -- Nepal, Resorts -- Employees -- Nepal | ||||
Official Date: | April 2013 | ||||
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Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||
Theses Department: | Department of Sociology | ||||
Thesis Type: | PhD | ||||
Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||
Supervisor(s)/Advisor: | Charles, Nickie; Wright, Caroline, 1965- | ||||
Sponsors: | Overseas Research Scholarship (ORS); Warwick Postgraduate Research Scholarship (WPRS); PhD Research Excellence Framework (REF) | ||||
Extent: | xii, 419 leaves. | ||||
Language: | eng |
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