Sentence examples for reproductive labour from inspiring English sources

Women in Borana society traditionally did not have the rights to own property or control over their reproductive labour; if they had any, it was only indirectly, by virtue of being married to a wealthy herd-owning man.

The classical definition of eusociality referred to the social organization of insects and includes the division of reproductive labour, cooperative care of offspring and overlap of generations [3].

The movement of babies, reproductive body parts and women's reproductive labour and care work -- as nannies, egg donors and surrogates has led to the "globalization of motherhood" [ 32].

Assisted reproductive technologies (ART) rely on women's bodies or their reproductive labour, and if successful this results in the birth of a child, with implications that go beyond consumer's interests alone [ 34].

Also this and other studies very usefully establish the importance of exploring donors' perspectives and experiences, and establish the importance of women's reproductive labour in global tissue economies (Cohen, 2000; Waldby and Cooper, 2008).

All of these implied changes reflect a potential role in reproduction and reproductive divisions in labour.

In social Hymenoptera, it appears to have a critical influence in the evolution of eusociality, as it has been specifically implicated in both reproductive division of labour between castes [ 32, 38] and age-related division of labour within the worker caste [ 64].

In the case of the spiders, it can be debated whether individuals in social spider colonies that fail to reproduce should be considered non-reproductive helpers, as absence of universal reproduction likely reflects competition for resources, rather than socially enforced reproductive division of labour (Avilés 1997; Avilés & Tufiño 1998; Bilde et al. 2007; Lubin & Bilde 2007).

Individuals that are largely identical genetically can be very different phenotypically, as exemplified by the reproductive division of labour between sister queens (primary egg-layers) and workers (essentially sterile female helpers), and in the social division of labour between workers that move between behavioural roles: nursing, nest building, guarding, colony defence, and foraging [20].

Eusociality is defined by overlapping generations, cooperative brood care and reproductive division of labour [ 12].

The identified genes could be involved in the control and regulation of reproductive division of labour.