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Posted on: 18th March 2008
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Gender and Work Database Gender and Work Database
The GWD is an interactive research and teaching tool developed at York University in Toronto. It includes six modules: on health care, migration, precarious employment, technology, unpaid work and unions. Each module contains a conceptual guide and multidimensional, annotated, and interactive data tables. The conceptual guide to each module introduces researchers to key concepts and to the available data. It addresses silences and absences in the statistical data, and offers some practical demonstrations of how researchers can examine the issues of the module through both the statistical data and the library resources. Many modules also contain working papers and other resources such as a union "webography" and guide to union equity materials. The searchable library contains papers, citations to papers, and links to relevant theoretical and empirical works. There are over 2000 entries selected by researchers, with over 1100 of them annotated. The GWD thesaurus identifies core concepts in the study of gender, and contains over 1200 subject headings. The thesaurus links to the search engine serving the entire database, and helps researchers to navigate the modules. Using the thesaurus/library and Beyond 20/20 data table search interfaces, users can search for sources and across all modules, using our researcher-generated controlled vocabulary of subject headings. The GWD also contains tutorials explaining how to use the various components. The union module of particular relevance might be of particular interest. It explores unions as a key labour market institution that impacts on production and reproduction, households and workplaces. The Module highlights five key themes: union renewal, leadership and representation, worker militancies, organizing the unorganized, and the union advantage. The Module explores gender, work and unions through statistical data, a unique set of union equity and web resources, and research papers on key themes. To illustrate how researchers may use the module to address a particular research question, the guide also provides a demonstration focused on the 'union advantage'. The GWD is publicly accessible (except for the data tables). To access the data tables for non-commercial research, contact Leah Vosko(lvosko@yorku.ca) toreceive a password. Linda Briskin Professor, Social Science Division/School of Women's Studies York University 4700 Keele St Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3 416-736-2100 x77824; fax 416-736-5615 http://www.arts.yorku.ca/sosc/lbriskin/ |
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