לחשוב מחדש את מושג העבודה: שפה, ידע ומגדר

. This article proposes to rethink the meaning of the concept of work by investigating the changing social worlds that it encompasses. This is an etymological journey through the meanings of work and labour as they are manifested in the Hebrew and English languages. The article examines the place of women in these worlds, retrieves their silenced voices, and investigates their experiences and roles in redefining the concept of work. The etymological quest shows the way in which work is talked about and knowledge is accumulated about the social world and how the genderizing of the world of work has changed and/or has been reproduced in social and historical contexts. Although the routes to meaning are not uniform, nor are they necessarily linear, one of the findings is that there has been a transition from the concept of work as punishment and suffering to work as a basic component of defining and actualizing the humanity of women as an integral part of the definition of what a society is.