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Ethnicity and Religiosity in the Gender Division of Housework and Childcare in Malay and Chinese Households in Malaysia
Get PDFThis study examines the amount and division of household labour, defined as housework and childcare, in Malaysia through the lens of ethnicity. Despite much research on the influence of racial-ethnic identity on the gendered division of household labour, research into the relationship in Malaysia is scarce. Likewise, although religion is closely related to ethnic identity in Malaysia, the extent to which a person’s religiosity is related to the division of household labour is not yet known. This thesis addresses the current gap in the research using a mixed methods approach of a quantitative online survey (N=859) and qualitative interviews (N=30).
This thesis explores how and why couples spend household time and divide household labour in Malaysia with two lines of inquiry. The first examines whether ethnicity and religiosity influence the amount and division of household labour, using quantitative analysis. The findings indicate that ethnic identity is important in shaping women’s weekly housework hours, with Malay women spending more time in housework than Chinese women. Also, ethnic identity is important in shaping mothers’ and fathers’ weekly childcare hours, with Chinese mothers and fathers spending more time in childcare than Malays. Chinese couples also share childcare slightly more equally than Malay couples, but with no significant differences in the division of housework. Religiosity is more associated with the amount and division of household labour for both housework and childcare for Malays than for Chinese.
The second line of inquiry examines the gendered life experiences and the negotiation process between couples over the division of household labour, using qualitative analysis. The interview findings are consistent with the quantitative findings. Malay and Chinese couples differ in their experiences of the division of household labour: Malay couples’ experiences are more dominated by the religion of Islam and Malay cultural influences, whereas Chinese couples’ experiences are more dominated by Chinese cultural and individual influences. The six case studies that examine the negotiation process in depth suggest that Malay women use greater effort than Chinese women in persuading their husbands to do more household work when they have income.
This study finds that division of household labour in Malaysia is influenced significantly by the ethnic groups to which couples belong, and highlights the links between ethnicity and historical experiences and policy impacts
Who is Doing the Housework in Chinese Families in Malaysia?
No full textThere are limited studies focusing on the amount of time spent on housework and the predictors that influence men’s share of weekly housework time relative to their spouses in Chinese families in Malaysia. Quantitative empirical data on the housework time shouldered by couples in Chinese families and the predictors that influence men’s share of weekly housework time relative to their spouses in Chinese families have not been possible due to the lack of a time use survey and no available data in Malaysia. This study adopts a quantitative approach to examine the amount of time spent on housework in Chinese families in Malaysia. Also, it examines the predictors that influence men’s share of weekly housework time relative to their spouses in the Chinese families. Using an online survey (n = 283 female respondents), the findings indicated that housework was shouldered by Chinese women rather than men, with women spending approximately 5 hours and 13 minutes per week more than men in Chinese families. The findings suggest that men shared less than half of the housework tasks at home with their spouses. In addition, the findings suggest that men increased their share of housework tasks when their spouses earned more than them. This implies that negotiation occurs within Chinese couples with women using their earnings to bargain out of housework. In sum, the findings revealed that although Chinese wives shouldered most of the housework tasks, they could bargain out from the housework and do less housework if they earned more than their husbands
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Division of Housework and Subjective Feelings among Indian Women during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Malaysia
No full textWomen shouldered most housework despite their educational and employment status before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aims to explore the lived experiences of Indian women in the division of housework and their subjective feelings during the COVID-19 pandemic in Malaysia. A sample of twelve Indian married working women shared their experiences through semi-structured interviews. The findings show that most Indian women shouldered the housework burden while juggling both paid and unpaid work simultaneously during the COVID-19 pandemic. The majority of Indian women felt stressed because they perceived housework as women’s responsibility. Indian women’s experiences and negative feelings indicate the need for policy makers to narrow gender inequality in unpaid domestic work and enhance women’s well-being in the households
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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