Women's Domestic Workers’ Narratives on Their Work

Astagini, Nuria and Sarwono, Billy (2021) Women's Domestic Workers’ Narratives on Their Work. Proceedings of the International Conference of Innovation in Media and Visual Design (IMDES 2020), 558. pp. 194-200. ISSN 2352-5398

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Abstract

For some working women, becoming a domestic worker is the only way for them to support their families. When they choose to work as domestic, they automatically become associated with negative stereotypes from the community. Through in-depth interviews conducted with three female domestic workers as informants, this study presents marratives related to their experiences working domestics. The narratives from these three women who work as domestics showed that they were able to explain clearly the job that they do, and that they have posive associations to their profession, even though they realized that they are doing a job that is considered dirty and by the community. A good relationship with the employer, as well as a comfortable working atmosphere, is one of the factors that determined the construction of meaning related to to job. Narratives from women domestie workers in this study showed that they are able to create posive meaning related to a job associated with negative stereotypes because they have a good relationship with their employer and family.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Domestic Workers, Work, Meaning, Women, Experience
Subjects:	300 Social Sciences > 300 Social sciences, sociology and anthropology > 302 Social interaction, Interpersonal interaction 300 Social Sciences > 370 Education 300 Social Sciences > 390 Customs, etiquette and folklore
Divisions:	Faculty of Communication > Strategic Communication
Depositing User:	Administrator UMN Library
Date Deposited:	20 Sep 2024 08:39
Last Modified:	20 Sep 2024 08:39
URI:	https://kc.umn.ac.id/id/eprint/31378

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