"Trends Shaping Education 2010" brings together evidence showing the effects on education of globalisation, social challenges, changes in the workplace, the transformation of childhood, and ICT. To make the content accessible, each trend is presented on a double page, containing an introduction, two charts with brief descriptive text and a set of…

Identifies ways in which laws at the local, state, and federal level protect the right of women to choose an occupation or profession according to her abilities and interests. Information is presented on the history of legal discrimination (i.e., past court decisions) in the United States, protective labor laws, and recent laws recognizing…

The purpose of this study is to explain the changing and increasing participation of females in the American labor force during this century, especially since 1940. Although the pre-1940 changes are smaller and may be attributable to improvements in census enumeration techniques, there has been a significant increase since 1940 in participation…

This report presents a brief overview of the changing labor market conditions for women and the steps taken to keep the Bureau of Labor Statistics data relevant to the social and economic setting in which these changes took place. Data tables and discussion are included on the following topics: working women in the 1970s; women workers and their…

Conceptually analyzes the male work role, the female work role, the female family role, and the male family role as components of the work-family role system. Examines the links among these roles and analyzes sex-segregated labor markets for both paid work and family tasks. (JM)

This study aims to point out the differences between the North and the South of Vietnam, more particularly, Saigon and Hanoi, in terms of family and work roles of women. It helps to explain the ways women in Ho Chi Minh City reconstruct their reproduction role, the attitudes of Southern husbands towards household tasks and the husband-wife…

Assesses the contribution women make to the social reproduction of working class families in Puerto Rico. Analyzes the role of women in the industrialization of Puerto Rico (especially since 1940) and the impact of women's earnings on the household economy. Suggests that increased female migration may result from the continuing export-led…

A survey of postwar recessions shows that the increasing proportion of service sector jobs has moderated overall employment declines and that women in nontraditional jobs, Blacks, and youths bear a disproportionate share of job losses. (LRA)

To test the economic theory of job search and the rationality of job search behavior by unemployed married women, the importance of reservation wages (or wages requested for employment) was studied for its effect on the duration of unemployment and its relationship to the subsequent rate of pay upon reemployment. Models were established to explain…

Human capital theories are examined. Both economic and political influences are cited, and further study of the struggle of mostly male worker groups pursuing industrial and professional interests in the workplace and training system is suggested. (MSE)

Reviews economists' views about how the economy works, from which conclusions opposing comparable worth are drawn. Discusses factors that have been omitted from economists' views--social and psychological factors that affect behavior in the workplace, permit and encourage discrimination, and have an effect on the distribution of jobs and wages.…

Introduces a special issue on women and migration. Discusses immigrant women's participation within the world labor market, the ideologies affecting them, the effects of migration on sex roles and family patterns, and women's reasons for migration. Also discusses sex biases in research and policymaking concerning migration. (KH)

In this study a model of the relationship between urbanization, school system variables and the sex composition of the teaching profession is developed. In the cross sectional analysis of data from 1870, the relationship between urbanization and the feminization of this occupation is explained in terms of length of the school year, the enrollment…

Part 2 of the second volume in a four volume collection, this document addresses income and employment, food stamps, economic development programs, and the work force. Listings included here are theories of unemployment; the food stamp program; the use of Economic Development Programs as antipoverty measures; the Rural Development Insurance Fund;…

Women work because they are needed by the economy. The economy increasingly depends on women, the last remaining labor pool. Figures from the latest census show the trends in the changing workforce. Issues discussed: woman's paycheck as discretionary money, career goals, and community services for working women. (MLW)