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Pistole, M. Carole – Initiatives, 1994
Notes that, although they are qualified and are being hired into academic positions, women are not achieving tenure and promotion at same rate as men. Suggests that women's success can be affected by effective, purposeful mentoring and proposes framework that mentors can use to organize socialization and developmental process which women…
Descriptors: Career Ladders, College Faculty, Employed Women, Higher Education
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Feldberg, Roslyn L.; Glenn, Evelyn Nakano – Social Problems, 1979
Work has been seen as the central process that links individuals to industrial society and to each other. However, the actual study of work has proceeded along sex differentiated lines. Two case studies are examined to illustrate the ways in which job and gender models have distorted investigation and interpretation. (Author)
Descriptors: Employed Women, Employment, Family Structure, Females
Luft, Harold S. – 1978
This book presents an empirical analysis of the interrelationships between poverty and health. Definitions of various aspects of health problems are used in outlining a causal model of the relationships between various socioeconomic factors and different types of health problems. This model is then developed through a discussion of types of data…
Descriptors: Blacks, Economic Factors, Employed Women, Family Income
Poole, Millicent E.; Langan-Fox, Janice – 1997
A study examined psychological and contextual influences on the courses of Australian women's lives and careers. Data were obtained from two sources: (1) the Career Development Project (CDP), a longitudinal study of 3,000 Australian men and women who were selected from an initial sample of 17-year-olds in 1973 and whose educational and career…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Career Choice, Career Development, Career Education
2000
This document contains three papers from a symposium on emotion and behavior in the workplace that was conducted as part of a conference on human resource development (HRD). "Emotion Work, and Perceptions of Affective Culture in a Military Nonprofit Organization" (Jamie L. Callahan, David R. Schwandt) reports on a study of the emotion…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Education, Adult Learning, Affective Behavior
Hyclak, Thomas – 2000
The rising wage inequality in U.S. urban labor markets during the 1980s was examined in a study of 20 metropolitan area labor markets. The study's perspective differs from the prevailing perspective on the problem in three ways: (1) it focuses on changes in the wage structure in a sample of local labor markets; (2) it examines changes in the…
Descriptors: Blue Collar Occupations, Clerical Occupations, Comparative Analysis, Compensation (Remuneration)
Manning, Sabine, Ed.; Griffiths, Toni, Ed.; Oliveira, Teresa, Ed. – 2002
This document contains the papers from a conference on current research in vocational education and training (VET) and human resource development in Europe. The following papers are among those included: "The Contribution of the German Pilot Project 'New Learning Concepts within the Dual Vocational Education and Training System' towards the…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Apprenticeships, Case Studies