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Among the critical challenges around the COVID-19 pandemic is dealing with the potentially detrimental effects on people’s mental health. Designing appropriate interventions and identifying the concerns of those most at risk requires methods that can extract worries, concerns and emotional responses from text data. We examine gender differences and the effect of document length on worries about the ongoing COVID-19 situation. Our findings suggest that i) short texts do not offer as adequate insights into psychological processes as longer texts. We further find ii) marked gender differences in topics concerning emotional responses. Women worried more about their loved ones and severe health concerns while men were more occupied with effects on the economy and society. This paper adds to the understanding of general gender differences in language found elsewhere, and shows that the current unique circumstances likely amplified these effects. We close this paper with a call for more high-quality datasets due to the limitations of Tweet-sized data.

"Dans son livre Capitalisme carcéral, Jackie Wang examine le fonctionnement actuel du capitalisme aux États-Unis illustrant divers aspects du continuum carcéral comme la biopolitique de la délinquance juvénile, la police prédatrice, le profilage racial, la gouvernance cybernétique et le maintien de l’ordre algorithmique. Comment un réseau carcéral et des appareils de répression policiers s’articulent-ils à la violence de l’économie et du racisme? S’agit-il de la continuation directe, sous un autre visage, du système d’esclavage qui perdura jusqu’au XIXe siècle et sur lequel se sont fondés les États-Unis d’Amérique? Est-ce un système de gestion des populations « surnuméraires » déclassées de leur position dans la hiérarchie sociale? Est-ce que les dispositifs policiers qui strient les espaces urbains ne seraient que d’autres moyens d’extraire de la valeur afin de garantir, à travers les mille et une infractions qu’ils répriment et le fermage d’amendes, la santé financière de l’État? De la privatisation des prisons et des agences de sécurité jusqu’au développement massif d’une industrie technosécuritaire en passant par les algorithmes de reconnaissance faciale et le quadrillage GPS des villes qui les transforment en véritables prisons à ciel ouvert, cet ensemble d’hypothèses nous fait plonger au cœur de l’enfer du capitalisme étasunien, de ses logiques totalitaires et sécuritaires et de ses processus de racialisation des corps."-- Résumé de l'éditeur.

Purpose>The purpose of this paper is to explore the work-life (WL) experiences of live-in women migrant domestic workers (MDWs), who represent a significant proportion of migrant workers globally. MDWs play a key role in enabling the work-life balance (WLB) of others, namely the middle-class households that employ them. Yet, their experiences have largely been invisible in mainstream WL literature. The authors draw on an intersectional approach to frame the WL experiences of this marginalized group of women at the intersection of being secondary labour segment workers, with significant legal and employment restrictions as migrant workers, who work and live in the same place as their employers.Design/methodology/approach>Qualitative interviews were conducted with 13 women MDWs from Indonesia and the Philippines working in Malaysia. The women talked about the meaning of work as MDWs, how they maintain familial connections whilst working abroad, and how they negotiate their WLB as live-in workers. Thematic analysis of the interviews focused on the intersection of the women’s multiple dimensions of disadvantage, including gender, class and temporary migrant-foreigner status, in shaping their accounts of the WL interface.Findings>Three thematic narratives highlight that any semblance of WLB in the MDWs’ lived experience has given way to the needs of their employers and to the imperative to earn an income for their families back home. The themes are: working as MDWs enables the women and their families back home to have a life; the co-existence of WL boundary segmentation and integration in relation to “real” and “temporary” families; and the notion of WLB being centred around the women’s ability to fulfil their multiple duties as MDWs and absent mothers/sisters/daughters.Research limitations/implications>The study is based on a small sample of live-in women MDWs in Malaysia, intended to promote typically excluded voices and not to provide generalizable findings. Accessing potential participants was a considerable challenge, given the vulnerable positions of women MDWs and the invisible nature of their work.Practical implications>Future research should adopt a multi-stakeholder approach to studying the WL experiences of women MDWs. In particular, links with non-governmental organizations who work directly with women MDWs should be established as a way of improving future participant access.Social implications>The study underscores the existence of policies and regulations that tolerate and uphold social inequalities that benefit primary labour segment workers to the detriment of secondary labour segment workers, including women MDWs.Originality/value>Extant WL literature is dominated by the experiences of “the ideal work-life balancers”, who tend to be white middle-class women, engaged in professional work. This study offers original contribution by giving voice to a taken-for-granted group of women migrant workers who make other people’s WLB possible. Moreover, the study challenges WL research by underscoring the power inequities that shape the participants’ marginal and disadvantaged lived experience of work, life, family and WLB.

Afin de comprendre comment la justice réparatrice répond aux besoins des victimes d’agression à caractère sexuel, 18 d’entre elles ont partagé leur expérience. Treize personnes travaillant en justice réparatrice ont aussi transmis leur expérience auprès des victimes. Les victimes de violence sexuelle qui choisissent de participer à un processus de justice réparatrice présentent généralement des victimisations répétées survenues à un très jeune âge. La justice réparatrice s’inscrit dans le prolongement du cheminement thérapeutique. Les victimes se sentent finalement libérées, soulagées, et confiantes à l’issue de celle-ci. La valeur thérapeutique de la justice réparatrice contraste avec la seconde victimisation souvent associée au processus pénal. La justice réparatrice permet la reconnaissance de la victimisation, en plus de fournir aux victimes de l’information et une compréhension de ce qui a été subi. En effet, le besoin de reconnaissance prend deux formes : reconnaître l’innocence de la victime et reconnaître la culpabilité du contrevenant. Cette reconnaissance n’est pas seulement offerte par le contrevenant, mais aussi par des contrevenants suppléants, d’autres victimes et les intervenants. Ainsi, il existe plusieurs potentielles sources de réparation pour les victimes. Les personnes victimes ont souvent besoin d’information pour comprendre ce qui s’est passé et pourquoi. Bien que certaines questions ne puissent être répondues que par l’agresseur direct, les agresseurs suppléants ont beaucoup aidé les victimes à obtenir des réponses à leurs questions. Le fait d’avoir accès à ces réponses permet aux personnes victimes de mieux comprendre ce qu’elles ont subi et de lui donner davantage un sens. Pour y avoir accès, il faut savoir que les programmes de justice réparatrice existent, et ainsi, les participants sont unanimes : il faut mieux informer les personnes victimes de l’existence des programmes de justice réparatrice, car elles ont le droit de savoir et de choisir.

Background Due to the great burden of family and the conflicts among family, society and career roles resulting from migrant working, rural women suffer more conflicts between work and family and need more social attention. Previous studies of the conflicts between family and work mainly focus on the group of career women, and there is a lack of the research on the conflicts between work and family of rural women, which needs to be systematically and further studied.Methods This study used a sample survey of 380 rural women in rural areas of Sichuan Province to measure rural women’s cognition of work-family, coordination and handling of conflicts, post-conflict choices, and subjective well-being; the study constructs an ordered multi-class logistic regression model to explore the impact of work-family conflict on the subjective well-being of rural women in rural regions.Results The study result shows that: (1) The level of subjective well-being of rural women is generally high, and 70% of women feel satisfied or very satisfied. (2) The factor which impacts the subjective well-being among rural women most is work-interfering-with-family conflict, followed by work-family balance and confidence in conflict coordination.Conclusion This study can enhance our understanding of rural women in rural areas, and provide a reference for formulating policies to improve people’s life satisfaction.

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The COVID-19 pandemic, originated in China, has affected millions of people worldwide, leading to various situations such as psychological disorders and diseases that affect people’s physical and mental health, and disrupt their quality of life. Objective. To analyze stress levels during social distancing due to COVID-19 by gender and to determine the moderating effect of adaptability to the situation. Method. The study is cross-sectional and quantitative, with a descriptive-correlational scope. The sample consisted of 1,173 Mexican subjects (522 males [44.5%] and 651 females [22.5%]) with an average age of 25.99 years (DT = 11.19; range = 12 - 77 years). Adaptability and perceived stress were measured, obtaining reliability from appropriate instruments. Results. The results indicated that the greater the number of weeks of social distancing, the higher the perceived level of stress. Also, the better people adapt to social distancing, the less stress occurs. Women were observed to have higher levels of stress compared to men. Discussion and conclusion. The findings highlight the importance of adaptability to the stressful situation of the pandemic, because the effect of severe stress on women largely disappears when there is a high level of adaptability to the event.

Shows how reproductive justice organizations' collaborative work across racial lines provides a compelling model for other groups to successfully influence change Patricia Zavella experienced firsthand the trials and judgments imposed on a working professional mother of color: her own commitment to academia was questioned during her pregnancy, as she was shamed for having children "too young." And when she finally achieved her professorship, she felt out of place as one of the few female faculty members with children. These experiences sparked Zavella's interest in the movement for reproductive justice. In this book, she draws on five years of ethnographic research to explore collaborations among women of color engaged in reproductive justice activism. While there are numerous organizations focused on reproductive justice, most are racially specific, such as the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum and Black Women for Wellness. Yet Zavella reveals that many of these organizations have built coalitions among themselves, sharing resources and supporting each other through different campaigns and struggles. While the coalitions are often regional-or even national-the organizations themselves remain racially or ethnically specific, presenting unique challenges and opportunities for the women involved. Zavella argues that these organizations provide a compelling model for negotiating across differences within constituencies. In the context of the war on women's reproductive rights and its disproportionate effect on women of color, and increased legal violence toward immigrants, The Movement for Reproductive Justice demonstrates that a truly intersectional movement built on grassroots organizing, culture shift work, and policy advocating can offer visions of strength, resiliency, and dignity for all.