Download or read book Mothers on the Job written by Lise Vogel and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women's increasing demands for protection and benefits in the workplace, especially with regard to maternity leave, have sparked more than a century of controversy among feminists on how best to serve the needs of working women. This debate continues to divide the feminist community. One side believes women are better served by emphasizing equality with men--pregnancy should be treated like any other "disability." The other side wants to recognize difference--special provisions should apply only to pregnant women. Lise Vogel examines the evolution of this debate on pregnant women in the workplace, looking at theoretical as well as practical implications. Vogel begins by assessing the history of the contemporary debate on pregnancy policy in the U.S. Since the middle of the nineteenth-century, American women have been torn by the contradictory demands of motherhood and the workplace. Pregnancy was grounds for dismissal from work and few employers took action to protect pregnant workers. To counter this, early twentieth-century feminists and reformers emphasized female specificity and women's special role. In the 1960s activists adopted a strategy framed on equality, which moved away from the earlier emphasis on differences. The use of equality strategies to cover the female-specific phenomenon of pregnancy turned out to have problems. Now women's special needs were denied and ignored. These difficulties and a series of court cases in the 1980s triggered debates in the feminist legal community. Vogel looks at the litigation and debates, which pitted advocates of gender-neutral strategies against critics who called for female-specific policies. Vogel argues that, in terms of practical benefits, women will be served best by a gender-neutral approach to pregnancy policy. She encourages equality advocates to recognize the inherent diversity of individuals, and points out the need to be sensitive to individual factors of race and class, as well as sex.
Download or read book GAO Documents written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalog of reports, decisions and opinions, testimonies and speeches.
Download or read book Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 1110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Parental Leave written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Family and Medical Leave Act of 1989 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Children, Family, Drugs and Alcoholism and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Women and American Politics written by Lynne E. Ford and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-12 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a comprehensive reference to the role of women in American politics and government, including biographies, related topics, organizations, primary documents, and significant court cases.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Women and the Economy written by Susan L. Averett and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 889 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transformation of women's lives over the past century is among the most significant and far-reaching of social and economic phenomena, affecting not only women but also their partners, children, and indeed nearly every person on the planet. In developed and developing countries alike, women are acquiring more education, marrying later, having fewer children, and spending a far greater amount of their adult lives in the labor force. Yet, because women remain the primary caregivers of children, issues such as work-life balance and the glass ceiling have given rise to critical policy discussions in the developed world. In developing countries, many women lack access to reproductive technology and are often relegated to jobs in the informal sector, where pay is variable and job security is weak. Considerable occupational segregation and stubborn gender pay gaps persist around the world. The Oxford Handbook of Women and the Economy is the first comprehensive collection of scholarly essays to address these issues using the powerful framework of economics. Each chapter, written by an acknowledged expert or team of experts, reviews the key trends, surveys the relevant economic theory, and summarizes and critiques the empirical research literature. By providing a clear-eyed view of what we know, what we do not know, and what the critical unanswered questions are, this Handbook provides an invaluable and wide-ranging examination of the many changes that have occurred in women's economic lives.
Download or read book Institutional Inequality and the Mobilization of the Family and Medical Leave Act written by Catherine R. Albiston and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do Family and Medical Leave Act rights operate in practice in the courts and in the workplace? This empirical study examines how institutions and social practices transform the meaning of these rights to recreate inequality. Workplace rules and norms built around the family wage ideal, the assumption that disability and work are mutually exclusive, and management's historical control over time all constrain opportunities for social change. Yet workers can also mobilize rights as a cultural discourse to change the social meaning of family and medical leave. Drawing on theoretical frameworks from social constructivism and new institutionalism, this study explains how institutions transform rights to recreate systems of power and inequality but at the same time also provide opportunities for law to change social structure. It provides a fresh look at the perennial debate about law and social change by examining how institutions shape the process of rights mobilization.
Download or read book Women s Work And Women s Lives written by Hilda Kahne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-18 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a provocative analysis of the nature of the relation between women and paid work in both modernizing and industrial countries. It explores the variables that shape the relationship: demographic factors, the social and cultural context, and the direction of economic development.
Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1996-05 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Monthly Catalogue United States Public Documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 1074 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Work and Family written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1991-02-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States has seen a dramatic increase in the number of dual-earner and single-adult families. This volume reviews accompanying changes in work and family structures and their effects on worker productivity and employer practices. It presents a wide range of approaches to easing the conflicts between work and family, exploring appropriate roles for business, labor, and government. Work and Family offers up-to-date information, looking at how the family and the workplace arrived at their current relationship and evaluating the quality and the cost of care for dependents in this nation. The volume describes the advantages and disadvantages of being part of a working family and takes a critical look at the range of benefits provided, including existing and proposed employer programs for families. It also presents a comparative review of family-related benefits in other countries.
Download or read book Parental Or Family Leave in Hawaii written by Warren Iwasa and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book United States Congressional Serial Set Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book More Than Kissing Babies written by Francine H. Jacobs and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1994 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compendium provides an orientation to basic issues of child and family policy. It includes an overview of the recent history of child and family policy in the United States; an exploration of several political economic conditions underlying changes in these policies; a historical survey of policies toward dependent children; and case studies of selected local, state, and federal policies. The case study approach helps to discern patterns in successful and unsuccessful policies, clarify assumptions and values that underlie them, and develop evaluation criteria. Policy formation is the focus in analyses of the federal Family and Medical Leave Act; family support initiatives in Kentucky, Missouri, and Maryland; and municipal policies for homeless families in Atlanta, Denver, and Seattle. Examinations of the federal Baby Doe regulations and AIDS education policy in the Cambridge, Massachusetts, public schools highlight policy implementation. An account of the Massachusetts Day Care Partnership Project concentrates on the third phase of policy analysis: policy evaluation. The concluding chapters stress the importance of considering race, class, and gender in defining social problems, setting policy agendas, and structuring and evaluating policies and programs. They then provide an analytic framework for assessing future responsibilities for U.S. child and family policy.
Download or read book Regulating for the Future written by Carol Tucker Foreman and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1991 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores several key issues of federal regulation that are likely to emerge as central to the health and growth of a globally competitive domestic economy in the 1990s: the use of market-type mechanisms to achieve environmental protection objectives; how much and what kind of competition should be permitted in the U.S. telecommunications market in a context of the globalization of world communications systems; what consideration should go into assessing the adequacy of the existing regulatory framework for the rapidly developing field of biotechnology research and development; and, the question of what new benefit requirements the federal government might impose on private companies and how the desirability of this approach versus more direct social provision of services should be assessed. This volume results from a new positive interest in how the federal government is regulating and what it is regulating as the U.S. economyóand its businesses, workers, and consumersóbecomes increasingly more integrated into a broader world market for goods and services. Contributors: Carol Tucker Foreman; Maureen S. Steinbruner; Peter Kahn; Thomas O. McGarity; Daniel J.B. Mitchell; Paula Newberg; and Robert N. Stavins.
Download or read book Women and Work written by Sonia Carreon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on vital contemporary issues Women in the work force today are still subjected to the glass ceiling, sexual discrimination, income inequality, stereotyping, and other obstacles to equal employment and professional advancement. Now a collection of 150 original articles written for this handbook explores the challenges and career blocks that today's women face in the workplace, discuss important contemporary issues, and offers a wide range of facts and data on women's employment. Offers insights and information The Handbook answer hundreds of questions as it illuminates current achievements and obstacles to success for women in the marketplace. Drawing upon a growing body of research in the social and behavioral sciences, the articles provide insights into such issues as the sex segregation of occupations, comparable worth, women in traditionally male occupations, career plans of college women, gende4r bias in job evaluations and personnel decisions, sexual harassment, the gendered culture of organizations, the effects of maternal employment on children and child care, and more. The articles draw on extensive research and studies on women in the workplace across the U.S. and around the world. A valuable research aid This handbook presents the reader with a broadly-based understanding of women's work experiences and provides a useful set of sources for in depth research. It is a valuable reference for professors, librarians, researchers, guidance counselors, and students who need reliable, up-to-date information. The handbook includes a subject and name index.
