This study focuses on the gender dimension of labour market transitions and its implications for policymaking in the areas of active labour market policies, career guidance, and skills development. The ETF initiated this research to map how activation and skills development policies are gaining importance in the neighbouring countries of the…

In today's society, women who return back to school seeking an advancement within their career is a transition within the lives of women that occurs in various contexts, including the women's ages at the time of their transition, which can define both their expectations and opportunities along their life stages and career paths. In the past, women…

What is the meaning of Korean women's career-leaving experience? To answer this question, this study adopted a hermeneutic phenomenology approach. My intention was to search for the deeper meaning of Korean women's career-leaving experience from their perspective. Ten Korean women who had left their careers due to their domestic roles in their…

This study examines how industry and occupation sex segregation are related to the use of flexible scheduling policies and perceptions of the career repercussions of using such policies. The analysis is performed on data from the 2002 National Study of the Changing Workforce (N = 2,810). Findings suggest that the percentage of women per industry…

Results support the author's contention that women's primary career decision, i.e., that between working'' and not working,'' is a function of the child-rearing mode of the parents. The field of occupation and the level within it is a secondary career choice, a function of a woman's level of achievement motivation. (Author)

Discusses women's labor force activity and resultant changes in the economic and social structure of the family on consumption patterns, on the division of labor among spouses, and on child-rearing practices. (TA)

A structured interview schedule was administered to mothers from 89 families in Pennsylvania whose children were enrolled in day-care centers or were on a day-care waiting list. Evidence indicated that satisfaction with substitute child care was positively related with maternal work satisfaction, but not with the quality of mother-child…

This article presents an exploratory study that furthers our understanding of the functioning of two-career couples at midlife and, in particular, our understanding of the husband's contributions to family and household activities. More specifically, it addresses the following questions regarding dual-career couples: (a) Whose career has…

Women face mid-life crises that are unique. The pattern of child rearing and return to work has inherent problems and women need particular help through counseling. (Author)

Elementary school children (N=50) completed a questionnaire related to their perception of having working mothers. Using path analysis, found older children, girls, and children who stay alone after school feel more negatively affected by their mothers' employment than younger children, boys, and children who are supervised after school. (Author)

Child-care arrangements of young working mothers were examined in a study using data from the Youth cohort of the National Longitudinal Surveys of Labor Market Experience. The data provided information on a sample of young men and women who were between the ages of 14 and 22 in 1979 and who have been interviewed annually since then. The data…

Beginning with the premise that the abilities and talents of women in American society are being expressed only fractionally, the author suggests we take a look at our total culture in order to understand what is happening to women and men. Significant change needs to be far-reaching to make it possible for each individual to attain maximum…

Findings from study of daughters (n=112) in midlife who were caring for their elderly mothers indicated that employment outside of home was related only to increase in physical strain in caregiving. Presence of children in household predicted lower levels of caregiver strain and greater caregiver well-being. (Author/NB)

The impact of the timing, spacing, and number of children on a married woman's wage growth over her life cycle was examined. The data used for the analysis were information pertaining to the labor market experience of women and the birth dates of their children, taken from the 1976 survey of the Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics (IDP). There…

Myths related to four questions regarding women's roles in early childhood education and society are described, and underlying assumptions for each question are examined. It is argued that each of the myths has served to restrict, deprive, neglect, or distort the development of women and their relationships. Recommendations for overcoming each…