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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"employed women"”.
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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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The relationship between purpose and meaning in life and health promotion activities in adult employed women
… activities was investigated in 72 adult employed females: 34 registered nurses and 38 university staff, faculty, or administration. Purpose in life was measured by the Life Attitude Profile (LAP) and health promotion activities by the Health-Promoting Lifestyle Profile (HPLP). Data …
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Work-family conflict and well-being among employed women in Malaysia: The roles of coping and work-family facilitation
As the numbers of employed women, single-parent households, and dual-earner families are increasing, women are no longer confined to their traditional gender roles. Women’s participation in work and family domains indicates their struggles in juggling multiple roles and incompatible demands from …
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A Study of Role Overload, Nonmarket Time Use, and Coping Strategies of Middle Class, Employed Women in Intact Families
… to deal with the overload. Role overload among employed women was defined based on contributions from role theory and organizational behavior. Nine nonmarket areas were identified for assessment: food chores, clothes chores, money chores, home care/maintenance, child care, social and community, …
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Women of Enterprise: A Study of Success and Failure Incidents From Self-Employed Women Using the Perspectives of Bakan's Constructs of Agency and Communion and Attribution Theory
… of this study was to investigate how self-employed women interpret the entrepreneurial experience. More specifically, success and failure incidents described by self-employed women were examined with regard to two types of meanings, agentic and communal, and with regard to the caus
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Women, work, and family: ways to well-being
… of variables that most affect well-being among employed women. A hypothesized model of the stress and coping process examines the influence of situational demands on mediators, and mediators on well-being. Job and family strain, as well as coping resources such as spousal support, social …
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Trapped in ideology. The limitations of micro-finance in helping women creating viable micro-businesses
… a viable alternative to waged employment for women, as is the current international policy claim. To answer this question, I compared the accounts of 22 micro-finance agency employees in the UK and in Belgium with those of 20 self-employed women who received support from these agencies. The …
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Relationships Among Maternal Role Competence, Parenting Education, Work Status, and Personal Characteristics
… the lifespan. A frequently encountered group Is women with Infants. Mothers with infants experience many changes that Influence their maternal role.<br> Maternal competence Is a woman's perceived ability to skillfully and successfully promote her Infant's development and well being and her …
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Women's Bargaining Power in the Household: Self -Employment Versus Wage Employment Among Low -Income Women in India
What's unique and interesting about these self-employed women is the immense shift in the amount of power they wield in the household context in a context where they have traditionally had limited power. This study finds that the women receiving some support from NGOs undoubtedly have more …
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Effect of Employment on Generativity in Married Mothers
… changed and there is an increasing number of women developing careers. It is important to determine whether the role of employment has an effect on generativity in women. This study had ten women participants: five married with children, homemakers and five married with children, …
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Determining the impact of flexible work hours on women employed in a higher education institution
Earnings by women in dual income families account for a significant portion of a household's income, which sustains the financial well-being of their families. Cultural expectations and gender role stereotypes around a woman's role in the family, pose challenges to career growth and retention. The …
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Combining parenting and paid work
… now than ever before. In Australia, 65% of employed women in couple families have dependant children, and in couple families with children under five years of age, 52% of mothers are in paid employment. Research consistently shows that women still take on responsibility for family chores, …
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The relationship between clothing interest and certain demographic variables of a selected group of women of middle years
… interest existed between selected groups of women of 25 to 65 years, and to identify the dimensions of clothing interest important to them. The relationship between clothing interest and certain demographic characteristics was also investigated. A modified version of the Creekmore Importance …
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Gendered work: Women's paid labor in Barre, Vermont and Trinidad, Colorado, 1880--1918
<p>Between 1880 and 1918, thousands of women in Barre, Vermont and Trinidad, Colorado entered the paid labor force. They worked as boardinghouse keepers, domestic servants, waitresses, laundresses, prostitutes, office workers, saleswomen, telephone operators, business owners, teachers, nurses, …
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An exploration of knowledge, attitudes and practices of primary health care providers providing contraceptive and family planning services in Cape Town, South Africa: a qualitative study
… can play a significant role in empowering women to make informed decisions when selecting suitable contraceptive methods during contraceptive counselling. This study explores the experiences and perceptions of primary health care providers delivering contraceptives services in Cape Town to …
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Staying in the Workforce with Fibromyalgia
Remaining employed with fibromyalgia can be difficult in the increasingly precarious work world, where employees are expected to be healthy and able to consistently meet their job demands. Fibromyalgia also lacks medical legitimacy, which brings a risk of damaged workplace relationships and …
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Yellow helmets : work and worth of women workers on construction sites in northern India
The participation of women in the building sector is an exception rather than a rule. Inmost countries of the world the building industry is almost exclusively the domain of men. In India a large number of women are actively involved in the construction process itself. According to 1993-94 …
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The Effects of Partner Aggression on Women's Work
… between partner aggression enacted against women and victims’ work withdrawal, as well as to investigate the possible moderators of this relationship. To accomplish this, I conducted three studies. The first two studies examined the effects of partner aggression on work withdrawal (i.e., …
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Family-friendly workplace policies in the United States: Associations with maternal and child health
Women in the United States face uniquely challenging circumstances regarding employment and childbirth. Unlike all but two other countries worldwide, the U.S. does not guarantee paid leave to employed women who give birth, and the 12 weeks of unpaid leave provided under the Family and Medical Leave …
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