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ENCYCLOPEDIA

OF WORLD PROBLEMS

AND HUMAN POTENTIAL

  2. World problems
  3. Social isolation of women at home

Social isolation of women at home

  • Social isolation of housewives
  • Mothers' self-imposed isolation
  • House-bound women
  • Socially isolated women

Broader

Social isolation
Presentable
Inadequate living and working conditions of immigrant labourers
Presentable
Social subjugation of women
Unpresentable

Narrower

Failure to employ skills of home-bound educated women
Unpresentable

Aggravates

Complications of childbirth
Presentable

Aggravated by

Tradition-bound childcare
Excellent
Restrictive patterns of tradition-bound lifestyle
Presentable
Discrimination against women in social services
Presentable
Dependence on unpaid female labour
Presentable
Unquestioned arrogation of household duties by women
Unpresentable
Dependency of the elderly
Unpresentable
Dependency of children
Unpresentable
Unplanned women's centre
Yet to rate
Trauma of ageing women
Yet to rate
Lack of personal transport in rural areas
Yet to rate
Incomplete understanding of new societal service systems
Yet to rate
Fragmented social care at the neighbourhood level
Yet to rate
Confining home duties
Yet to rate

Related

Discrimination against married women
Excellent
Restrictive channels of cultural interchange
Presentable

Strategy

Sharing family responsibilities
Presentable
Promoting women's public health issues
Presentable
Expanding social participation of women
Presentable
Home-making
Yet to rate

Reference

Kurian, George and Ghosh, Ratna: Women in the Family and the Economy: an international comparative survey

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #3: Good Health and Well-beingSustainable Development Goal #5: Gender EqualitySustainable Development Goal #11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(E) Emanations of other problems
Biological classification
N/A
Subject
  • Amenities » Households
  • Amenities » Living conditions » Living conditions
  • Individuation » Individuation
  • Societal problems » Isolation
  • Society » Maternity, paternity
  • Society » Social
  • Society » Women
    • Content quality
    Unpresentable
     Unpresentable
    Language
    English
    1A4N
    E8681
    DOCID
    11586810
    D7NID
    138093
    Last update
    Oct 4, 2020