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Blau, David M., Ed. – 1995
Economic issues are an important part of the debate over child care policy. This volume presents findings from economic analyses of research on child care issues surrounding recent policy decisions and scholarly debates. The book's introduction discusses four main issues; government involvement in child care policies, its effect on quality of…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Consumer Economics, Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making
Schwartz, Felice N.; Zimmerman, Jean – 1992
This book explores three questions: What is really going on now for women and men at home and on the job? What is wrong? and How can it be made to work? Its four parts are sometimes addressed explicitly to four intended types of readers: top executive of an organization; human resources officer; manager; and men and women at home and at work. The…
Descriptors: Career Development, Comparable Worth, Employed Women, Employer Attitudes
Kamerman, Sheila B., Ed.; Kahn, Alfred J., Ed. – 1978
This collection of articles by scholars and policy makers from 14 countries presents multidisciplinary perspectives on the formation of national policy on families. Central topics common to many of the articles include: (1) the differences between policies aimed at affecting the family and policies which have other aims but which do influence the…
Descriptors: Books, Child Rearing, Comprehensive Programs, Cross Cultural Studies
Werneke, Diane – 1983
As labor-saving, efficiency-increasing electronic technology is introduced into offices, jobs held by women will change. Although some jobs may be lost, most job loss will be absorbed by attrition and reduction of waste. Fewer new openings may occur in office jobs, however, especially in a recessionary economy. On the other hand, the jobs that are…
Descriptors: Adults, Automation, Clerical Occupations, Computers
Hakim, Catherine – 2000
This book proposes a new, multidisciplinary theory for explaining and predicting current and future patterns of women's choice between employment and family work. Chapters 1 and 2 present main tenets of preference theory and explain the need for the theory. Chapters 3 through 8 elaborate four principal tenets of preference theory. Chapter 3…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Age Differences, Career Choice, Career Development
Johnson, Jennifer – 2002
The lives of working-class women were explored through interviews with 63 middle-aged women, most of whom were employed in working-class jobs and living working-class lives in Baltimore, Maryland. The following were among the areas covered in the interviews: the women's lives on and off the job; their job satisfaction; the reasons they work and…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Caregivers, Definitions, Disadvantaged
