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Download full textSachs, 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
Staines, Graham L. – 1989
Flexible work schedules offer the promise of a low-cost option for helping people manage work and family responsibilities. Alternative work schedules include part-time work, job sharing, work sharing, shiftwork, compressed work week, flexitime, and flexiplace. Flexitime is the most prevalent full-time flexible schedule and is second in prevalence…
Descriptors: Adults, Employed Parents, Employer Attitudes, Employer Employee Relationship
Skinner, Denise A. – 1984
The increase in labor force participation of women, and particularly of mothers from two-parent families, has been accompanied by significant changes in family structures. Although the traditional family is no longer the norm, many social perspectives and policies reflect the belief that it is and do not meet the needs of dual-employed families.…
Descriptors: Community Support, Dual Career Family, Employed Parents, Family Structure
Peer reviewedMcNeeley, R. L.; Fogarty, Barbe A. – Family Relations, 1988
Examined employer reluctance to consider and/or implement innovations by assessing the relationship between selected demographic features of companies and the receptiveness of these companies to the introduction of innovative changes, as reported by company officials. Found demographic and other features influenced company officials' willingness…
Descriptors: Employed Parents, Employer Attitudes, Employer Employee Relationship, Employment Practices
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
