Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-2002
Keywords
Household-power, Women, Gender Identity, Mexico, Maquiladoras, Qualitative Research
Abstract
The study illustrates the potential of the ‘doing gender’ perspective to explain why employment helps women win some negotiations at home but not others. Eighteen in-depth interviews with women maquiladora workers in Mexico suggest that employment may help women gain new rights and extend the limits of respect accorded them by male companions and parents. Women were more successful when they used negotiating strategies that conformed to their gender identity, such as making offers, than when they used negotiating strategies that challenged traditional gender norms, such as withdrawing services or making threats.
Publisher Attribution
Gates, Leslie C. 2002. “The Strategic Uses of Gender in Household Negotiations: Women Workers on Mexico’s Northern Border” Bulletin of Latin American Research. Vol. 21, Number 4, p. 507-526.
https://doi.org/10.1111/1470-9856.00057
John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
Recommended Citation
Gates, Leslie C., "The Strategic Uses of Gender in Household Negotiations: Women Workers on Mexico’s Northern Border" (2002). Sociology Faculty Scholarship. 9.
https://orb.binghamton.edu/sociology_fac/9