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Download full textWomen's Bureau (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1986
Alternative work schedules can help parents of young children. They are also attractive to students, older workers, handicapped persons, couples desiring to share work and home responsibilities, persons wishing to upgrade skills or switch careers through a return to school, and employers needing to serve the public outside the traditional workday,…
Descriptors: Adults, Employed Parents, Employed Women, Employment Practices
Sachs, Sharon – 1994
More than 58 percent of all women working in the U.S. labor force, many of them sole supports of their families, and 67 percent of women with children under age 18 are working. Therefore, more flexible work options are being made to allow a balance of work and family. Increasingly available options include work at home, compressed workweeks,…
Descriptors: Adults, Employed Parents, Employed Women, Employment Practices
Hirschlein, Beulah M., Ed.; Braun, William J., Ed. – 1982
These proceedings explore issues pertaining to the combination of work and family roles from the perspectives of the family, business, government, labor, and the non-profit community. The six keynote addresses include an historical overview of families and work followed by unique perspectives representing labor, corporations, government, and the…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Education, Dual Career Family, Employed Parents
Chenard, Marcelle – 1983
The Skills, Attitudes, and Values for Employment (SAVE) project was designed to explore the needs of women in the workplace. An exploratory design was selected for the study with a target population consisting of 200 women working in companies in Morris County, New Jersey. From a self-administered questionnaire used to elicit information, the…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Educational Attitudes, Educational Needs, Employed Parents
Women's Bureau (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1992
This kit is designed to help employers understand the range of family needs emerging in the workplace and the numerous options for a company response. An introduction discusses the need for child care services, dependent care problems, and how employers respond and benefit. Sections address the following: selecting the right option in relation to…
Descriptors: Adult Day Care, Adult Education, Career Education, Day Care
Fagan, Colette; Warren, Tracey – 2001
A representative survey of over 30,000 people aged 16-64 years across the 15 member states of the European Union and Norway sought Europeans' preferences for increasing or reducing the number of hours worked per week. Key finding included the following: (1) 51% preferred to work fewer hours in exchange for lower earnings while 12% preferred to…
Descriptors: Administrators, Child Care, Collective Bargaining, Demography
