Author: Mary Elizabeth PidgeonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Making Motherhood Work
Author: Caitlyn CollinsPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691202400
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
The work-family conflict that mothers experience today is a national crisis. Women struggle to balance breadwinning with the bulk of parenting, and social policies aren't helping. Of all Western industrialized countries, the United States ranks dead last for supportive work-family policies. Can American women look to Europe for solutions? Making Motherhood Work draws on interviews that Caitlyn Collins conducted over five years with 135 middle-class working mothers in Sweden, Germany, Italy, and the United States. She explores how women navigate work and family given the different policy supports available in each country. Taking readers into women's homes, neighborhoods, and workplaces, Collins shows that mothers' expectations depend on context and that policies alone cannot solve women's struggles. With women held to unrealistic standards, the best solutions demand that we redefine motherhood, work, and family.
Employed Women and Family Support
Author: Mary Elizabeth PidgeonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Women Working Longer
Author: Claudia GoldinPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022653264X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Today, more American women than ever before stay in the workforce into their sixties and seventies. This trend emerged in the 1980s, and has persisted during the past three decades, despite substantial changes in macroeconomic conditions. Why is this so? Today’s older American women work full-time jobs at greater rates than women in other developed countries. In Women Working Longer, editors Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz assemble new research that presents fresh insights on the phenomenon of working longer. Their findings suggest that education and work experience earlier in life are connected to women’s later-in-life work. Other contributors to the volume investigate additional factors that may play a role in late-life labor supply, such as marital disruption, household finances, and access to retirement benefits. A pioneering study of recent trends in older women’s labor force participation, this collection offers insights valuable to a wide array of social scientists, employers, and policy makers.
The Second Shift
Author: Arlie HochschildPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101575514
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
An updated edition of a standard in its field that remains relevant more than thirty years after its original publication. Over thirty years ago, sociologist and University of California, Berkeley professor Arlie Hochschild set off a tidal wave of conversation and controversy with her bestselling book, The Second Shift. Hochschild's examination of life in dual-career housholds finds that, factoring in paid work, child care, and housework, working mothers put in one month of labor more than their spouses do every year. Updated for a workforce that is now half female, this edition cites a range of updated studies and statistics, with an afterword from Hochschild that addresses how far working mothers have come since the book's first publication, and how much farther we all still must go.
Money Income in the United States, ... (with Separate Data on Valuation of Noncash Benefits).
Author: Economic Status of University Women in the U. S. A.
Author: American Association of University Women. Status of Women CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American women
Languages : en
Pages : 1092
Book Description
Employment of Women in Chinese Cultures
Author: Cherlyn S. GranrosePublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781845428068
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
"Scholars and students of management, labor, gender, and China will find this volume of great interest. Government leaders will also find the research on women's employment lives a useful tool in future decision-making."--BOOK JACKET.
Living Wages, Equal Wages: Gender and Labour Market Policies in the United States
Author: Deborah M. FigartPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134480164
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Wage setting has historically been a deeply political and cultural as well as economic process. This informative and accessible book explores how US wage regulations in the twentieth century took gender, race-ethnicity and class into account. Focusing on social reform movements for living wages and equal wages, it offers an interdisciplinary account of how women's work and the remuneration for that work has changed along with the massive transformations in the economy and family structures. The controversial issue of establishing living wages for all workers makes this book both a timely and indispensable contribution to this wide ranging debate, and it will surely become required reading for anyone with an interest in modern economic issues.
The Woman Worker
Author: The Employed Woman Homemaker in the United States
Author: Mary Elizabeth PidgeonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description