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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Women and Work"”.
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WOMEN AND WORK-LIFE BALANCE: A NARRATIVE INQUIRY OF WORKING SINGLE MOTHERS BALANCING FAMILY AND WORK
<p>The purpose of this study was to explore working single mothers’ work-life balance in order to better understand how employers can assist them. Role theory, role conflict theory, and spillover theory were utilized to examine how working single mothers experience work-life balance and how they …
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The History of “Having It All”: Black and White Women and Work-Life Balance, 1890s-2010s
… traces the history of that at once vaunted and contested aspirational image, “the woman who has it all,” from the late nineteenth century through the early twenty-first, attending throughout to the complex intersections of race, gender, class, and sexuality. It establishes both notable …
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The changing role of women and work concerning gender, the family and childcare issues: A work-life balance perspective.
Within Ireland, the number of women in employment has increased, where the female participation in 1985 was around 30% and in 2004 was over 49%'. Over 50% of Irish mothers who have at least one child under 5 are now in the labor force . This thesis examines the framework that points to and informs …
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Maternal Employment and Family Socioeconomic Status Effects on Daughter's Self-Concept and Attitude Towards Women and Work: LISREL Models
… the effect of mother's employment variables and family socioeconomic status on daughter's self-concept and attitude towards women and work. Two groupings of 9th and 12th grade subjects were investigated: daughters whose mothers were employed at least part of the time during the daughter's …
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WOMEN AND WORK: A FOCUSED EXAMINATION OF FEMALE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ARMY NURSE CORPS WITHIN THE AMERICAN MILITARY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR
Women have been involved within the public sphere of the workforce for thousands of years. Within the United States during the 18th and 19th Centuries, it was often with socially mandated stipulations. Once a woman was married, she usually withdrew to tend to the home front. If she became widowed, …
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Women and Time: Food Work Politics of Self Defined Healthy Men
… operates in relation to time within the food work spectrum discussed in 19 narratives. The 19 narratives came from individual open ended face-to-face interviews with self-defined healthy men who shop at healthy food stores. This study's examination of how gender operates in the narratives was …
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Working women and the Lilly Ledbetter Act: a case study on misleading rhetoric of equal pay
… signaling that the battle over fair pay for women has gone on for too long. I argue that the neoliberal rhetoric around equal pay has to change to an intersectional approach where women can make legal claims based on many experiences of discrimination. I use the Lilly Ledbetter Paycheck …
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Mature women re-entering employment : The role of the manpower services commission in meeting their needs.
This thesis reviews the re-entry experiences of women who left employment temporarily to raise a family. It investigates in particular the role of the M.S.C. with regard to these re-entrants.The background to the research is given in three chapters which provide an outline of the current situation …
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Ignorance and Marital Bliss: Women's Education in the English Novel, 1796-1895
Mary Hays's Memoirs of Emma Courtney (1796) and Mary Wollstonecraft's Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman (1798) demonstrate the futility of educating women, given Britain's law of coverture; they expose the impracticality of ideal women presented in Jean Jacques Rousseau's Émile (1762) and James …
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Politics of the Project: Radical Art in Britain (1972-79)
The 1970s saw collaboration and local, grass-roots activism become common in radical art in Britain. Concomitant with anti-racist, anti-sexist and anti-nuclear efforts, a group of Leftist artists challenged social and financial elitism, patriarchy and inequality in both the art world and British …
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Enterprising Women and Village Banking in Urban Paraguay: Current impacts and future implications for social change
… Mujeres Emprendedoras (village banking) program and analyzes its potential as a tool for poverty alleviation, female empowerment and social change in Paraguay. The data for this thesis was collected over a three month period in 2007, and is based on interviews and file data from clients of the …