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In today's media, conservative women are often represented by their domestic roles or low income levels rather than their social, cultural, and political positions. This representation offers a generalizing and restrictive portrayal that does not correspond to the real lives and experiences of women. The aim of this study is to reveal how conservative women who are not frequently seen in the media are positioned through which roles in selected TV series. Within the scope of the study, the TV series Gönül Dağı and the locally produced digital series Bir Başkadır, which are among the most watched domestic television series, were included in the analysis due to the conservative women they feature. As a result of the study, it was determined that conservative women in the media have not attained economic freedom, have not received education or have received only primary-secondary education, have not developed an autonomous or public identity, and are typically positioned in domestic roles such as housekeeping or as stay-at-home mothers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the connection between the online commentary on the South Korean novel, and later film, Kim Ji-Young, Born 1982 (2016; film released in 2019), and the perception of feminism within South Korea. To capture how Kim Ji-Young’s “meaning” is entangled with popular beliefs about feminism, I analyze audience reception through Kim Ji-Young’s paratexts: (a) tweets and (b) comments responding to newspaper articles mentioning the novel and/or film Kim Ji-Young from the Korean platform Naver. I examine paratexts to reveal that the “meaning” Kim Ji-Young has in online spaces is not determined solely by the novel or film-as-referent. I show that Kim Ji-Young the source text has become inextricable from the mélange of preconceptions regarding what constitutes a “feminist” stance in Korea, ranging from the stereotype of the selfish “feminist” who shirks her maternal duty towards the nation to the discontent of stay-at-home moms. I show that online misogyny has forced those who support Kim Ji-Young’s feminist message to employ what rhetorician Leah Ceccarelli describes as “strategic ambiguity.” This involves simultaneously disavowing Kim Ji-Young‘s feminism while praising the text’s feminist politics, a tactic used to shield themselves from attacks by misogynistic trolls. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the representation of South Korean mothers in webtoons, specifically focusing on the emotional expressions that are allowed and those that are considered taboo. It compares South Korean "mom content" to similar trends in Japan and explores the use of humor as a means of conveying the maternal experience. The analysis is based on a selection of webtoons that address pregnancy, childbirth, and parenting, highlighting the role of webtoons in providing a space for community and catharsis for mothers in South Korea. The article also discusses the influence of mom blogs in other countries and the popularity of mom cafes in South Korea. It concludes by examining the ways in which webtoons challenge traditional narratives of motherhood and provide a platform for mothers to share their experiences. [Extracted from the article]

This article explores the concept of "education mothers" in Korean society, specifically their involvement in the private education market and their role in preparing their children for college entrance exams. It discusses how Korean TV dramas depict these mothers and how these portrayals reflect societal expectations. The article also examines the division between public and private spheres of motherhood and the influence of neoliberalism on the role of education mothers. It concludes by emphasizing the importance of recognizing and valuing occupations outside of traditional high-paying professions and promoting a more equitable distribution of educational responsibilities. [Extracted from the article]

This study analyzes the ways in which media represent maternal femininity under the context of neoliberalism and migration, and how diasporic housewives rework such representations. By employing a mixed method that includes a textual and online audience analysis of the Korean reality show Strangers, we investigate how diasporic Korean women's online communities (DKWOC) related to the show's portrayal of Korean female migrants' racialized and gendered everyday lives in the US as trailing wives. We found that, while a critique of gender politics and class-ignorance in Strangers already existed, overall diasporic women blamed themselves by constantly comparing their motherhood performance to that portrayed on the show, and justified their sacrifice and hardships using the logic of "migration as a family strategy." However, the solidarity and comradeship among DKWOC built through positive psychology discourse easily diluted those critical reflections. We argue that a belief in resilience is problematic for the survival of trailing wives, since it casts a blind eye to their real experiences—which includes gender discrimination embedded in both public and domestic spaces—and legitimates backlash narratives, including the belief that the stay-at-home mother position is an active choice, rather than the result of unequal global, legal, and gender infrastructures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article considers the concept of guardianship and examines volunteerism using an example of a Canadian crime prevention program that has been in operation over the past five decades. The Block Parent program of Canada started in 1968 and was a large scale, volunteer run, child safety program, which was initiated in response to a tragic child abduction in Ontario, Canada. "Block Parent" volunteers comprised mostly of stay-at-home mothers would place signs in their window to indicate a safe refuge for children. The program became national in 1986 and, at its height, had over 500,000 participating homes in the early 1990s. Just under two decades later that number dropped to 25,000 homes and continues to decline. This study reports the findings of a survey of 1297 Canadians carried out in 2021, which examined volunteerism, civic engagement, and child protection concerns using a Block Parent approach. Findings indicate that while only a small proportion of respondents volunteer in crime prevention programs, these programs appear to provide symbolic and instrumental purposes. Furthermore, findings indicate that volunteerism is linked to community cohesion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Addressing the particular context of China, this article has two aims. First, it offers reflections on the possibilities and limitations of using user-generated short videos (vlogs) as research data both methodologically and ethically. We specifically explore the potential of centering vlogs as a new format for examining motherhood behavior across online and offline spaces. Secondly, it adds to the thematic literature on the (re)production and representations of motherhood. We critically examine the rising phenomenon in China of the stay-at-home mother, by exploring how these mothers use short video platforms. Inductively learning from the thematic analysis of short videos of stay-at-home mothers published on Douyin, the patterns in the data indicate three distinct forms of labor are performed through digital motherhood practices: domestic labor, affective labor, and entrepreneurial labor. Drawing on these patterns, we update the original framework of “motherhood 2.0,” which was coined in the 2010s to address mothering practices in industrialized western societies. We extend this framework and conceptualize “motherhood 3.0” by analyzing a type of Chinese community-based intersectional performance of motherhood, gender, and labor that we see emerging in digital cultural production centered on short videos. Mediated labor within online and offline motherhood practices is informed by social, cultural, and technological factors. Digital technologies and mobile media communication provide new means for stay-at-home mothers to navigate between their roles as devoted mothers and their pursuit of self-actualization.

As you reflect, ask yourself if you were able to engage with your students in conversations that recognize a return from the pandemic, quarantine and other postpandemic experiences. One important notion is to recognize the diversity in our experiences within the context of the pandemic, what it means today to ourselves as individuals - students, educators, and artists - and what it means collectively. I hope that you found gems in this column, new ways to contextualize what you might have -experienced, and new ideas about how we can all move forward, maintaining consciousness in our field of dance and dance education. In the way I am referencing I Sankofa i , I encourage you, as dance educators, to retrieve moments, silver linings, and gems from the pandemic past. [Extracted from the article]

We study the interrelationship between the gender gap in numeracy and socioeconomic status (SES) based on household income, parental education, and labor force status. A composite measure of SES confirms the well-established fact that boys from lower SES are more disadvantaged. In contrast, we find that separately the three aspects of higher SES interact uniquely with gender to drive differential outcomes in numeracy for girls and boys. Income and mother's role in particular, are important drivers of the gender gap at the extremes of the income distribution. Mother's education and labor force participation is associated with increasingly higher test scores for girls across the income distribution, thus leading to a double disadvantage for poor girls. But the gender gap does not disappear at the top of the income distribution, as for boys, test scores increase with stay-at-home mothers. In high-income households boys benefit from a traditional household structure; while in low-income households, the gap is driven by girls having worse numeracy scores in the traditional household structure. • Socio-economic status interacts uniquely with gender to affect numeracy scores. • A mother's role in the household is an important driver at top and bottom incomes. • A double disadvantage for girls' numeracy outcomes in low-income households. • In high-income households, boys benefit from a traditional household structure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aims to compare the feeding practices adopted by stay-at-home mothers and work-from-home mothers during the COVID-19 lockdown. Feeding practices were assessed using a 39-item validated Comprehensive Feeding Practices Questionnaire (CFPQ). The Multivariate Analysis of Covariance (MANCOVA) was used to determine the mean difference in feeding practices by maternal employment status after adjusting for the mother's age and educational attainment and the child's age and gender. The current study revealed that a noticeable proportion of mothers adopted feeding practices that encourage balance and variety (4.45 ± 0.62), promote a healthy environment (4.34 ± 0.81) and impose dietary restrictions for health (4.32 ± 1.04) during the COVID-19 pandemic. There was no significant difference (P > 0.05) in the mean scores of feeding practices across maternal employment status, except for the emotion regulation and modelling subscales. Work-from-home mothers had a significantly higher mean score in the emotion regulation subscale than stay-at-home mothers (F = 14.892, P < 0.001). In comparison to work-from-home mothers, stay-at-home mothers had a significantly higher mean score in the modelling subscale during the COVID-19 pandemic (F = 4.163, P = 0.044). In conclusion, there was just a modest variation in the feeding practices adopted by stay-at-home mothers and work-fromhome mothers in this unprecedented pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The COVID‐19 pandemic has drawn attention to the home as a work environment, but the focus has centered on the experiences of paid workers. Stay‐at‐home mothers (SAHMs), for whom the home was already a workplace, have received little attention. This article explores how pandemic‐induced lockdowns impacted SAHMs' working conditions and their experiences of childrearing. Combining a Marxist‐feminist conceptualization of domestic labor with a labor process framework, we performed a qualitative content analysis of vignettes SAHMs shared about their day‐to‐day domestic labor in an online mothering community. Our findings show that, under lockdown conditions, the primacy given to partners' paid work combined with children's increased demands for care and attention reduced SAHMs work autonomy and exacerbated gender inequalities in the home. Combining labor process theory with literature on motherwork illuminates the home as a gendered work environment and enhances understanding of how changing conditions of domestic labor can intensify gender inequalities (and workers' awareness of them) that typically remain "hidden in the household." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While greater female participation in the job market is seen as an effective way of achieving higher economic growth, some studies reveal that maternal employment could be a risk factor for child mortality. We analyze the association between under-five mortality and maternal employment in 26 developing countries from Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East using Demographic and Health Surveys. Logistic regression results suggest that maternal employment is associated with a 24.5% higher risk of child mortality than stay-at-home mothers. Compared to stay-at-home mothers, maternal engagement in agriculture is associated with 24% higher odds of under-5 mortality, while engagement in blue-collar jobs is associated with 29% higher odds of under-5 mortality. We also find that white-collar jobs do not give any advantage over the stay-at-home mothers with respect to this risk. Interaction of maternal employment types with breastfeeding confirms the increased risk of child mortality for agriculture and blue-collar jobs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Australia has a relatively high proportion of stay-at-home mothers, despite most young women aspiring to combine motherhood with paid work. Using two waves of quantitative data from the 1973–1978 cohort of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health, and interviews with a subsample of stay-at-home mothers, we aimed to understand the role of agency in women's work–family outcomes and the impact upon their well-being. More than four out of five stay-at-home mothers (83%) had previously aspired to combine motherhood with paid work. There were no differences in mental health scores of stay-at-home mothers according to prior work aspirations. However, stay-at-home mothers had marginally lower life satisfaction, and were more dissatisfied with the progress of their career when they had previously aspired to paid work, compared with unpaid work. Although women described their current situation as a 'choice', their choices were deeply embedded within gendered, social and economic contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Previous studies have shown that the prevalence of anxiety among primary school students in rural areas is relatively high. Also, this stage is a critical developmental stage of academic life. Childhood anxiety disorders lead to significant disruption and interference with other aspects of life, including behavioral, emotional, cognitive, and academic achievement. Aims: This study aimed to find the frequency of 6 subtypes of anxiety disorders and to determine the potential sociodemographic factors of anxiety disorders among primary school students in a rural area of Malaysia. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study in which 411 students answered the Spence Children's Anxiety Scale-Child version (SCAS-C). Descriptive analyses elucidated at-risk students, and multivariate analysis of variance and multiple linear regression presented potential predictors of anxiety disorders. Results: The most common abnormal level was for social phobia (SP) (n = 109/18.6%), and the least common were panic/agoraphobia (n = 85/14.1%) and physical injury fears (PIF) (n = 82/13.6%). Multivariate analysis of variance revealed that age (P < .05), gender (P < .05), father's employment (P < .05), and mother's educational level (EL) P < .05) were predictors of overall anxiety. A Tukey post-hoc test revealed that older children are more likely to suffer from overall anxiety, separation anxiety (SA), SP, and obsessive-compulsive problems. Children of low-income families were less likely to suffer from SA than those of middle-income families. Children of stay-at-home mothers were less likely to suffer from overall anxiety, SA, and SP than mothers who worked more than 8 h per day. Multiple linear regression could predict 6 models of anxiety based on sociodemographic factors. Conclusion: According to our findings in this study, promoting mental health by providing preventive strategies and screening programs is more recommended for students with sociodemographic risk factors for anxiety disorders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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• Novel mechanism is used to signal maternity in a labor-market correspondence study. • Maternity breaks are associated with a large decrease in employer response-rates. • Declaring a maternity break on one's resume does not remedy lower response rates. • Working as a nanny results in the same call-back-rate as stay-at-home parenting. A correspondence study is used to determine how taking a maternity break from the labor force to raise a child affects a mother's ability to get an administrative job relative to mothers who did not take such a break. Relative to mothers who did not take a maternity break, those who did were about half as likely to receive a response to their application, as were those who spent the same time working as a nanny. Listing "stay-at-home mother" as relevant experience on one's resumé does nothing to shrink this gap. These results are consistent with the effect of unemployment on call-back rates as identified by previous research, suggesting that employers view maternity breaks as a form of unemployment rather than relevant experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]