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Download full textCongress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Special Committee on Aging. – 1986
This document contains witness testimonies and prepared statements from the Senate hearing held in Cleveland, Ohio to examine issues dealing with work and retirement policy and how they affect older women. Opening statements are presented from Senator John Glenn and Congresswoman Mary Rose Oakar. Witnesses providing testimony include: (1) Harvey…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Aging (Individuals), Career Planning, Displaced Homemakers
Budetti, Peter P., Ed.; Burkhauser, Richard V., Ed.; Gregory, Janice M., Ed.; Hunt, H. Allan, Ed. – 2001
This book contains 15 articles on older workers and the challenges of health insurance, Social Security, retirement, job loss, and working until older ages. Following an introduction by the editors, the articles are organized in five sections that also include commentaries on the articles. The following are included in Section 1, "Charting…
Descriptors: Age Discrimination, Disabilities, Early Retirement, Employed Women
Health Resources and Services Administration (DHHS/PHS), Rockville, MD. Bureau of Maternal and Child Health and Resources Development. – 2003
This book provides a collection of current and historical data on some of the most pressing health challenges facing women, their families, and their communities. It is intended to be a concise reference for policymakers and program managers at the federal, state, and local levels. The book brings together the latest available data from various…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Chronic Illness, Communicable Diseases, Death
Oliveira, Victor J.; Kuehn, John A. – 1987
Service industries, some manufacturing, and a concentration of retirees can provide a strong economic base in a rural area. Rapid growth of service businesses, especially wholesale and retail firms and other businesses related to tourism and recreation, attracted job-seekers to a 10-county area in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas and Missouri…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Educational Attainment, Employed Women, Employers
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Finance. – 1983
These Congressional hearings contain testimony pertaining to the passage of women's career choice equity legislation. The hearings were convened to determine whether federal law, either directly or indirectly, regulates economic opportunities for women in such a way as to alter their career choice between paid employment and homemaking. During the…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Demography, Economic Opportunities, Employed Women
Cornwell, Gretchen T.; Thorsen, Jenny S. – 1985
Data from the 1980, 1970, and 1960 censuses were used to describe Pennsylvania's rural women and to compare them with urban women and, in some instances, men. In Pennsylvania in 1980, just 1 rural woman in 25 lived on a farm. These women were more educated, more active in the labor force, and somewhat better paid than their counterparts in 1960…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Birth Rate, Census Figures, Comparative Analysis
Commission of the European Communities, Brussels (Belgium). Directorate-General for Employment and Social Affairs. – 2001
This document examines employment and social policy in the European Union in 1999-2001. The document begins with an interview with Anna Diamantopoulou, the European Union's commissioner for employment and social affairs and the paper "Balancing Jobs, Cohesion, and Productivity" by Odile Quintin, the European Union's director-general for…
Descriptors: Coordination, Employed Women, Employer Employee Relationship, Employment
