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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Women in the workforce"”.
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Women in the workforce: Overcoming time and space constraints
More women are in the workforce today than in the history of America. This has upset our previous notions of women's roles in American society as well as our definition of family. Dual career couples, single parent families and singles living alone have replaced the traditional male wage earner, …
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Impact of the level of women participation in the workforce on economic growth in Kuwait
This study was conducted to explore the impact of the level of women in the workforce on economic growth in Kuwait. The impact on the overall economy of the state of Kuwait was tested using the rate of growth in Kuwait gross domestic product (GDP). To achieve this, a questionnaire was developed in …
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Women In Wartime Shipyards: Operating A Drill Press Was Like Using An Egg Beater
<p>This research examines the duality of the roles of American women during World War II. The research draws upon oral histories, newspaper accounts and advertisements, music and films of the time, letters and family scrapbooks, and primary and secondary sources. Most prior research focuses on …
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Modern Sexist Attitudes Toward Female Supervisors
Despite the passage of The Civil Rights Act of 1964, women employed by an organization generally remain in the entry level positions, while their male counterparts are promoted throughout the organization's hierarchy. Although there are many theories that attempt to explain the reasons for this …
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The Life and Accomplishments of American Feminism
This study seeks to concisely discuss the history and achievements of the Feminist or Women’s Rights Movement in the United States. The author first discusses the history of feminism as both a socio-political movement and a theoretical approach. A discussion of the three waves of feminism shows …
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Child care in the retail industry in Victoria
The aim of this research is to investigate the child care experiences and attitudes of those who work within the retail industry in Victoria and it concentrates on the needs of parents with children aged under 13 years old. A number of issues are presented as part of the background information for …
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The emergence of female leaders: the effects of self-monitoring, priming and task characteristics
Despite the growing number of women in the workforce, women still emerge as leaders in organizations less often than men. In order to understand this phenomenon, the current study explores the effects of self-monitoring, task characteristics, and priming on emergent male and female leaders. 160 …
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Self-concept of retired women
The problem of this descriptive-comparative study was to investigate and compare the self-concept of retired career women and retired women homemakers. The accidental sample consisted of 22 white, retired women who were participants at 2 senior citizen centers located in the suburbs of a large …
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Sex, Labor, And The American Way: Detroit Aesthetic In Mid-Twentieth-Century Literature
<p>The essay analyzes Sinclair Lewis short fiction in If I Were Boss, U.S.A. by John Dos Passos, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee and Walker Evans, and Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby, Jr. The primary literature is juxtaposed with a study of visual texts and historic research with a …
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Strategy for diversity management : women's leadership and work-life balance in Japan by
… with a volatile global economy, a rapidly shrinking population and a declining birthrate, Japan needs to find ways to revamp its economic engine. One solution is to increase the participation of Japanese women in the workforce. Over the past decade Japanese society, its government and …
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The Career Development of Women in Executive-Level Positions in Information Technology
Despite the impressive increase of women in the workforce, they continue to be underrepresented in managerial positions in the information technology (IT) field. This gender gap is most evident at the senior management and executive levels. Although many women have advanced to the ranks of middle …
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The Relationship Between Traumatic Perinatal Experience and Postpartum Fatigue in Employed Women
<p>Many childbearing women are employed. Few studies have researched the impact of employment on the maternity process. This investigation addressed traumatic perinatal experiences and fatigue in postpartum employed women.<br> This investigation supported the literature in that fatigue is present …
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Types in Transition: The Evolution of the Working Man in New Hollywood Cinema
Beginning in the late 1960s and lasting for around a decade, The New Hollywood era of American cinema represented a significant shift in both filmmaking style and practice. While scholars have traditionally located this break in either industrial or auteurist terms, Types in Transition argues that …
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Work-related education among older adults: case studies of selected older women in urban areas
The demographic shift to an older population has led to a structural transformation of the labor force and rapid social change within American society. This, in turn, has given rise to the need to reassess the factors which facilitate and impede the older adults' interest and participation in …
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Comparisons of employment barriers between visible minority and Anglo-Saxon women in different occupations
Minority groups tend to face disproportionately higher rates of unemployment, underemployment and restricted job mobility than non-minority groups. In recognition of the inequalities borne by these groups in the labour force, Judge Rosalie Abella produced a report iterating the most “efficient, …
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More Than Just A Pretty Face: The Women of the SOE and the OSS During World War II
This work's focus is on the women who served as secret agents during World War II for the Special Operations Executive (SOE) in Great Britain and the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in the United States. The argument presented herein states that the existing historiography featuring female …
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Perceptions of work-life management among women at a higher education institution in Illinois
After approximately an entire generation following the now-steadily increasing presence of women in the workforce, from the 1990s onward, the issue of how to balance conflicts between the demands of work and non-work life, especially for women, has become an object of scholarly research. This …