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Wlodarsky, Rachel L. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2022
This article describes the disintegration of boundaries of work and family life due to the COVID-19 pandemic and makes visible the chaotic state in which academic and other professional mothers were forced to function. She discusses the struggle to separate personal from professional life, social isolation, lack of motivation and resource…
Descriptors: Reflection, Family Work Relationship, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Bron, Agnieszka; Thunborg, Camilla; Osman, Ali – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2021
This paper explores learning trajectories in becoming 'rural women' in Sweden, by using a biographical and socially-situated learning perspective. The data is based on in-depth biographical interviews with three young women who moved between rural and urban areas, and finally decided to return to a rural area. The findings show three learning…
Descriptors: Rural Urban Differences, Rural Population, Females, Employed Women
Hegewisch, Ariane; Mefferd, Eve – Institute for Women's Policy Research, 2021
New May jobs data show that despite greater jobs gains, women's recovery continues to lag behind that of men. Women's jobs on payroll are still 4.2 million below pre-COVID-19 levels, compared with 3.5 million fewer jobs on payroll for men. Further, high jobs deficits in schools and child care centers point to difficulties for employed mothers and…
Descriptors: Females, Employed Women, Employment Opportunities, Mothers
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Orly Clergé – RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2023
The number of Black suburbs has expanded since the 1960s, however, research on gender and how Black women contribute to their formation is understudied. Grounded in an intersectional framework, this article places women at the center of the analysis of Black suburban life. Using a multisite ethnography conducted during the Great Recession, I make…
Descriptors: Females, Suburbs, African Americans, Middle Class
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Hanson, Alex – Composition Studies, 2020
This article argues for greater attention to the embodied experiences and material practices of single mothers in the academy. Using critical imagination (Royster and Kirsch) to analyze how texts in the field have represented single motherhood, I identify three patterns of how mothers complete work, or what I term survivalist strategies to resist…
Descriptors: One Parent Family, Mothers, Experience, Family Work Relationship
Schilder, Diane; Sandstrom, Heather – Urban Institute, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic caused an unprecedented public health emergency that crippled the child care market in the United States. This crisis highlighted the essential role of the early care and education (ECE) workforce in the nation's economic stability and growth. The pandemic's disproportionate effect on Black, Hispanic, and Native American…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Early Childhood Education, Child Care
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trivedi, nikhil; Wittman, Aletheia – Journal of Museum Education, 2018
Despite the growing number of women in museums, the undervaluing of educational work traditionally associated with women, and labor largely done by women today, persists. This begs the question: in what "other" ways are women and femmes working in museums undermined despite their growing presence as workers and the emerging centrality of…
Descriptors: Sexual Harassment, Sexual Abuse, Sex Fairness, Museums
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Heybach, Jessica; Pickup, Austin – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2017
This article challenges implicit understandings of scientific inquiry and gender within contemporary responses to the underrepresentation of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Failing to recognize the gendered history of science, and thus STEM disciplines, we argue that much research and curricular interventions are…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Gender Differences, Gender Bias, Disproportionate Representation
OECD Publishing, 2018
While the benefits of early childhood education and care (ECEC) services to better learning are now widely acknowledged, a widespread and accessible provision for these services also helps support gender equality in the workforce. In particular, the availability, intensity, reliability and affordability of ECEC play an important role in engaging…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, Early Childhood Education, Womens Studies, Mothers
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Formosinho, João – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2021
This article analyses the impact on Early Years Education policy of the crisis provoked by COVID 19 pandemia and raises some questions about the future. For a better understanding of this impact COVID 19, I present the construction of this educational level since the nineteenth century contrasting two essential models -- the educational assistance…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education
Burke, Amy – National Science Foundation, 2019
The science and engineering (S&E) labor force helps to create and advance our scientific and technological knowledge, transform these advances into goods and services, and fuel America's economy, security, and quality of life. This report details several aspects of the U.S. S&E workforce, including growth, demographic makeup, earnings, and…
Descriptors: Labor Force, Technical Occupations, Engineering, Scientists
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Herbst, Chris M. – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2017
This paper assesses the impact of welfare reform's parental work requirements on low-income children's cognitive and social-emotional development. The identification strategy exploits an important feature of the work requirement rules--namely, age-of-youngest-child exemptions--as a source of quasi-experimental variation in first-year maternal…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Welfare Recipients, Low Income Groups, Cognitive Development
Glynn, Sarah Jane; Farrell, Jane; Wu, Nancy – Center for American Progress, 2013
In his 2013 State of the Union address, President Barack Obama made a historic pledge to provide universal, high-quality pre-K education to the nation's children. Early childhood education has myriad benefits, including better, more equitable long-term outcomes for children of divergent economic backgrounds Moreover, investments in these programs…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Child Care, Employed Women, Mothers
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Syomwene, Anne; Kindiki, Jonah Nyaga – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
This paper is a discussion of the relationship between women education and sustainable economic development in Kenya and its implications for curriculum development and implementation processes. The argument advanced in this paper is that the solution to the development problems in Kenya and other developing nations lies on women education.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Womens Education, Economic Development, Sustainable Development
American Association of University Women, 2020
This is an update to the report "Deeper in Debt: Women and Student Loans." Americans today carry $1.54 trillion in student loan debt. That number has more than doubled over the last decade--increasing at nearly six times the rate of inflation. Women are particularly burdened, holding nearly two-thirds of all outstanding loans--around…
Descriptors: Debt (Financial), Females, Student Loan Programs, College Students
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