Women Workers and Their Dependents
Author : Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon
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Page : 128 pages
File Size : 33,41 MB
Release : 1952
Category : Dependents
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Author : Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 33,41 MB
Release : 1952
Category : Dependents
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Author : Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon
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Page : 117 pages
File Size : 29,48 MB
Release : 1952
Category : Women
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Author : United States. Women's Bureau
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Page : pages
File Size : 40,85 MB
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Author : Ellen Smith
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Page : 44 pages
File Size : 19,21 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Dependents
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Page : 842 pages
File Size : 28,30 MB
Release : 1952
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Author : Francine D. Blau
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 13,69 MB
Release : 1997-06-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1610440641
Today, as married women commonly pursue careers outside the home, concerns about their ability to achieve equal footing with men without sacrificing the needs of their families trouble policymakers and economists alike. In 1993 federal legislation was passed that required most firms to provide unpaid maternity leave for up to twelve weeks. Yet, as Gender and Family Issues in the Workplace reveals, motherhood remains a primary obstacle to women's economic success. This volume offers fascinating and provocative new analyses of women's status in the labor market, as it explores the debate surrounding parental leave: Do policies that mandate extended leave protect jobs and promote child welfare, or do they sidetrack women's careers and make them less desirable employees? An examination of the disadvantages that women—particularly young mothers—face in today's workplace sets the stage for the debate. Claudia Goldin presents evidence that female college graduates are rarely able to balance motherhood with career track employment, and Jane Waldfogel demonstrates that having children results in substantially lower wages for women. The long hours demanded by managerial and other high powered professions further penalize women who in many cases still bear primary responsibility for their homes and children. Do parental leave policies improve the situation for women? Gender and Family Issues in the Workplace offers a variety of perspectives on this important question. Some propose that mandated leave improves women's wages by allowing them to preserve their job tenure. Other economists express concern that federal leave policies prevent firms and their workers from acting on their own particular needs and constraints, while others argue that because such policies improve the well-being of children they are necessary to society as a whole. Olivia Mitchell finds that although the availability of unpaid parental leave has sharply increased, only a tiny percentage of workers have access to paid leave or child care assistance. Others caution that the current design of family-friendly policies may promote gender inequality by reinforcing the traditional division of labor within families. Parental leave policy is a complex issue embedded in a tangle of economic and social institutions. Gender and Family Issues in the Workplace offers an innovative and up-to-date investigation into women's chances for success and equality in the modern economy.
Author : Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree
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Page : pages
File Size : 42,29 MB
Release : 1921
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Author : Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree
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Page : 76 pages
File Size : 48,34 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Industrial life insurance
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Author : Arlie Hochschild
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 23,81 MB
Release : 2012-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1101575514
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.
Author : International Labour Office
Publisher : International Labour Organization
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 38,36 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789221108443
2nd version of a 1994 publication.