Reproducing Inequality in Gendered Lifeskill of Motherhood and Maternity Rules
Reproducing Inequality in Gendered Lifeskill of Motherhood and Maternity Rules
Friday, 11 July 2025: 15:20
Location: SJES006 (Faculty of Legal, Economic, and Social Sciences (JES))
Oral Presentation
The research study focus on two feminist issues: firstly, how to conceptualize reproduction within technology intervention; secondly socio-psychological toll it takes in family planning and motherhood in work-life balance. Due to professional commitment the biological clock slows down to conceive naturally and increases the risk of pregnancy. This interplay of unpaid domestic work with work-balance pushes to identify barriers to inequality. To simplify, women as caretakers and childbearers de facto institutionalize the practice of being subordinate to their male counterparts. This compromising their position and struggle for equality and promotion post reproduction too. Does this mean that women should stop reproducing or mothering or paid work? USA have also been practicing temporary disability leave as (maternity leave) both short term or long term which structures the grim social reality encompassing the diseased human mind etymology of comprehending birth as some kind of disability. Hence, even the so-called developed nation structures marginality and subordination in the most subtle ways systematizing inequality of reproduction process as being some sort of disability. How do they even conceive the idea of creation/procreation new life as disability? Thus, the hegemonic control over power and resources viz promotions or employment security (monetary rewards, allowances, arrears, bonus and other opportunities) produces severe disparity in the physical absence of the women employee during the maternity leave/disability undertaken. This juxtaposes women in a confused state of survival at work and family. Thus “what exists and what is expected, rather than what should be’ does challenge the social construction of gender coagulate in the ontological reality of the society. The study plans to bring a comparative study of infertility and increased women participation in work and thorough analysis of the leave rules regarding childbirth and childcare between a developed and developing nation.