Data from the Canadian Labour Force Survey (1997) reveal that relatively few mid-life women offer ill health as a reason for leaving their job or downshifting to part-time employment, implying that the role of ill health may be inconsequential in effecting changing patterns in mid-life women's labour force activity. In contrast, interviews with 30…

With the rapid changes occurring in the role of work in women's lives, this research project was designed to examine the career planning, career decision making, and work history of women in both female-dominated and gender-neutral careers (U.S. Department of Labor, n.d.-a). A qualitative analysis of structured interviews identified 6 emerging…

Drawing on data from a panel study of White women spanning 31 years, the analyses examine the influence of women's employment on the gendered division of household labor. Multiple dimensions of women's employment are investigated, including accumulated employment histories, current employment status, current employment hours, and relative income.…

Objective: An examination of the frequency and impact of workplace sexual harassment on work, health, and school outcomes on high school girls is presented in two parts. The first compares the frequency of harassment in this sample (52%) to published research on adult women that used the same measure of sexual harassment. The second part compares…

Do adults' perceptions of their mothers' and fathers' parenting practices in childhood vary by their mothers' employment status? Among adults in the Survey of Midlife Development in United States who lived with 2 biological parents until the age of 16 years (N = 2,246), those who had employed mothers during most or all of their childhood reported…

Recently I gave a presentation on class, success and subjectivity. One response was that I should "Get over it". This comment informs the following discussion exploring some contradictory views about speaking personally in relation to class experience. There is a continual need to review the feminist mantra of the "personal is political". Does…

The purpose of this qualitative study was to better understand the experience of wage-earning women in the context of rural economic restructuring. An ecological and life course theoretical framework was used. Nine community leaders and 17 wage-earning women residing in a rural northern Michigan county participated in semistructured interviews,…

We use a difference-in-difference-in-difference estimator to compare changes in labor force participation, weeks, and hours of work associated with no-fault divorce laws, allowing for differential responses for married women with and without children. Although other research has found that the labor supply of women in general does not respond to…

Significant differences were found to be present across the race, age, and job category variables set up in a study of a volunteer sample of 147 female workers in an insurance company. Findings provide information on career development for women, and in particular, those who are older and non-white. (LH)

Examines the occupation of travel agent, an occupation that is not sex-role stereotyped. Six measures were developed, revealing the existence of sex structuring of men and women in management and sales positions both among and within New York City travel agencies. (Author)

This booklet was written to help readers understand how the Retirement Equity Act of 1984 makes it easier for both women and men to collect retirement benefits under private pension plans. Since women have had special problems in the pension area, it emphasizes how the retirement law works to their advantage by preventing loss of coverage during…

Studies were undertaken in a department store and in four school districts to determine if managerial motivation is related to management success indexes and whether female managers have less managerial motivation than males. Managerial motivation did prove to be significantly related to the success of female managers. (Author)

Notes on topics such as equalization of female custodian wages; and a school track made of rubber and asphalt instead of the traditional cinders. (JF)

Myths surrounding the effectiveness of women principals abound. This paper dispels some of those myths by citing studies that show (1) teacher morale in schools with women principals is either equal to or higher than that in schools with male principals, (2) women principals are more effective at resolving conflicts with staff members, (3)…

In the Fall of 1978, the American Association of School Administrators distributed a survey instrument to approximately 4,000 school district superintendents and school administrators nationwide. The instrument was designed to test these individuals' attitudes toward women as school district administrators. Two hundred of the individuals surveyed…