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The Gendered Consequences of Unemployment Insurance Reforms
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Mooi-Reci, Irma; Mills, Melinda – Social Forces, 2012
This study examines whether a series of unemployment insurance benefit reforms that took place over a 20-year period in the Netherlands had a gendered effect on the duration of unemployment and labor market outcomes. Using longitudinal data from the Dutch Labor Supply Panel (OSA) over the period 1980-2000, and adopting a quasi-experimental design,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Unemployment, Insurance, Gender Differences
Deeper in Debt: Women and Student Loans in the Time of COVID
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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
Women and Social Security: Law and Policy in Five Countries.
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Hoskins, Dalmer; Bixby, Lenore E. – 1973
An increased interest in the position of women, stimulated by increasing numbers of women in the labor force as well as the women's movement, has resulted in a reexamination of women's status under social security programs in many countries. Five case studies (Belgium, Federal Republic of Germany, France, Great Britain, and United States), which…
Descriptors: Employed Women, Equal Protection, Females, Foreign Countries
AMERICAN WOMEN, THE REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS OF THE COMMISSION.
KAPLAN, FRANCES BALGLEY, ED.; MEADE, MARGARET, ED. – 1965
THE PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1963 BY PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY TO ANALYZE THE CONDITION OF WOMEN IN THE UNITED STATES TODAY, REVIEW ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN IMPROVING THEIR STATUS, AND RECOMMEND MEANS OF OVERCOMING DISCRIMINATIONS IN EMPLOYMENT AND SERVICES THAT WILL HELP WOMEN CONTINUE THEIR ROLE AS WIVES AND…
Descriptors: Blacks, Civil Rights, Employed Women, Employment
Women's Issues Are Economic Issues.
Schroeder, Patricia – USA Today, 1983
Faulty laws, unfair practices, and years of tradition in the workplace keep women from economic equality. The Economic Equity Act proposed by Congress will address inequalities in tax and retirement matters, the need for better dependent care, nondiscrimination in insurance, regulatory reform, and child support enforcement. (IS)
Descriptors: Day Care, Discriminatory Legislation, Displaced Homemakers, Divorce
On Campus with Women. Number 18, October 1977.
Association of American Colleges, Washington, DC. Project on the Status and Education of Women. – 1977
Contents of this bulletin from the Association of American College's Project on the Status and Education of Women include: (1) affirmative action and employment, covering the future of women in academe, administrative positions, the "old boy" network, salaries, noncompliance with Title IX, women scientists and engineers, publications…
Descriptors: Administrator Selection, Affirmative Action, Athletics, Bibliographies
Women's Action Almanac: A Complete Resource Guide.
Williamson, Jane, Ed.; And Others – 1980
Designed to provide answers to questions on women's issues and programs, the guide is arranged into two parts. Part 1, which comprises about three-fourths of the guide, contains background information and answers to often asked questions on 84 issues, such as abortion, affirmative action, battered women, divorce, incest, and insurance. Each entry…
Descriptors: Abortions, Affirmative Action, Athletes, Battered Women