This would reveal with greater clarity their causal dependency on, and compatibility with, changes in the economic structure

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Sourced from the abstract and stated research gap and stated challenges and inline gaps and future-work section of the source papers, classified as general, drawn from work published between 1978 and 2023, spanning 5 journals. Those papers have been cited 44 times in total.

Supporting evidence — 6 representative gaps

• ‘The wife's administration of the earnings’? Working-class women and savings in the mid-nineteenth century (2011) · Continuity and Change · cited 8× · doi

  It is relevant to a number of issues: the economic activity of married women and its relationship to the legal context in which they were operating – in particular before the Married Women's Property Acts of 1870 and 1882; the extent to which women's employment in the nineteenth century may have been mis-stated and/or under-reported; and the distribution of income within the working-class family.

  generalabstractevidence 5/5
  Keywords: women married relevant number issues economic activity relationship legal context operating particular property acts extent
• De arbeid van ongehuwde vrouwen in mijnwerkers- en boerengezinnen. Een onderzoek in de Limburgse gemeenten Stein en Horst in de jaren 1950 (2023) · Studies over de sociaaleconomische geschiedenis van Limburg/Jaarboek van het Sociaal Historisch Centrum voor Limburg · doi

  The paper identifies a gap in our understanding of the work of unmarried women in miners' and peasant families. The study highlights the importance of considering the historical context in understanding the work of unmarried women. The paper aims to fill this gap by analyzing the work of unmarried women in the Limburg municipalities of Stein and Horst.

  generalstated research gapevidence 5/5
  Keywords: paper identifies gap understanding work unmarried women miners
• Husbands' Occupational Attributes as Constraints on Wives' Employment (1978) · Sociology of Work and Occupations · cited 21× · doi

  The paper identifies a gap in the existing literature on the implications of the husband's occupational role for the wife's employment. It highlights the need for further research on the impacts of husbands' occupational attributes on wives' employment decision-making. The paper argues that little attention has been paid to the variable impacts of the husband's occupation.

  generalstated research gapevidence 5/5
  Keywords: paper identifies gap existing literature implications husband occupational
• CHANGING ECONOMIC ROLES OF WOMEN IN TWO RURAL MEXICAN COMMUNITIES (1978) · Sociologia Ruralis · cited 4× · doi

  The integration into the national economy has led to the differentiation of the population in terms of permanent wealth differences. The prevailing norms keep women in childbearing years close to the home and limit their occupational opportunities. The study highlights the need to consider the socio-economic context in which women live and work.

  generalstated challengesevidence 5/5
  Keywords: integration national economy has led differentiation population terms
• Agricultural Seasonal Unemployment, the Standard of Living, and Women's Work in the South and East, 1690–18601 (1981) · The Economic History Review · cited 3× · doi

  This would reveal with greater clarity their causal dependency on, and compatibility with, changes in the economic structure, particularly in relation to the factors acting on male employment, and would attempt a fuller understanding of their origins in the poorly documented and ellusive eighteenth-century background.

  generalinline gapsevidence 5/5
  Keywords: reveal greater clarity causal dependency compatibility changes economic structure particularly relation factors acting male employment
• Urban Women in the Labor Force (1979) · Sociology of Work and Occupations · cited 8× · doi

  The paper suggests that future research should confirm the relationships demonstrated in the article using much larger samples. The study notes that further research is needed to understand the effect of local values and opportunities, age, education, marital status, religion, and husband's economic position on participation in the labor force of women.

  generalfuture-work sectionevidence 4/5
  Keywords: paper suggests future research confirm relationships demonstrated article

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