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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"leave policy"”.
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Postpartum Working Mothers: The Maternal Employee-Employer Relationship and U.S. Leave Policy
<p>PURPOSE: Few studies have examined the relationship between working mothers and employers and the contributions of this relationship on mothers. Therefore, this dissertation explored postpartum mother’s relationship with their employers. METHODOLOGY: To gain an understanding of the experiences …
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Family leave policy and child health: Evidence from 19 OECD countries from 1969 to 2010
This study examines the effects of family leave policy on eight child health outcomes - five age specific child mortality rates (infant, perinatal, neonatal, post-neonatal, and child mortality rates), low birth weight, and immunization rates for measles and DPT (diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus) …
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Examination of Perceptions of Procedural Justice When Establishing a Maternity Leave Policy in a University Setting
… enter the workforce, the issue of maternity leave is also becoming more prevalent. More and more women are working in professional fields and don't want to end their careers in order to have and raise children. In this current study the researcher has combined the issues of procedural justice …
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Harnessing A Shared Value Between Generational Workers: The Optimum Leave Policy for Generational Workers in the Behavioral Healthcare Industry
… of satisfaction, productivity, and intent to leave. Eight themes emerged from thematic analysis. The themes (a) different generational groups have different PTO preferences, (b) PTO policies required responsibility and accountability of workers, (c) PTO policies are not reasons to leave the …
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Maternity Leave Policy in U.S. Police Departments and School Districts: The impact of descriptive and social group representation in a context of gendered institutions
United States federal law regulating leaves of absence for maternity-related purposes pales in comparison to other nations' policies, an observation only recently receiving attention from political scientists. Providing an understanding of how maternity leave is handled by individual organizations …
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Forgetting the American Family: How the Family and Medical Leave Act is Insufficient and What Can Be Done to Improve It
… research seeks to clarify the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) of 1993 and explore where the Act is deficient. In addition, federal policy is compared with states that currently have a more generous paid leave program. In the interest of the effect this issue has on American global …
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Spatial Features of Labor Markets and Links to the Housing Market
… first two papers look at how a local parental leave policy and the neighborhood in which one resides can influence women's decision to work. One paper shows that New Jersey's 2009 family leave insurance program induces women to remain employed following childbirth. The other reveals that, for …
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Work-Family Reconciliation Policies Reexamined: Good or Bad for Gender and Class Inequality in Employment across Twenty-Four High-Income Countries?
… multidimensional, disaggregated, and precise policy measures were developed for two of the most widely studied work-family reconciliation policies—leave and ECEC. I constructed a comprehensive set of leave and ECEC policy measures for 24 high-income countries using secondary and …
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Performative Parenting: Social Norms and Fathers' Use of Parental Leave Entitlements
Fathers’ use of parental leave is a crucial policy issue in relation to gender equality and at the root of gendered caring norms and unequal divisions of labour throughout the life course. Using comparative mixed methods and a framework that conceptualises parenting as gendered and performative …
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A Critical Analysis of Family Leave Policies Across U.S. Universities
… of this study is to critically examine family leave policies across universities in the United States to determine whether and to what degree they rely on traditional notions of motherhood and family. Conversations surrounding the lack of equitable and adequate family leave should be continued …
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Hey, That's Not Fair! A Comparison of Faculty and Department Head Fairness Perceptions of Pregnancy Leave Practices
… increasingly faced with issues such as pregnancy leave. This study addresses perceptions of faculty pregnancy leave practices in a university setting. In part, this study is a replication/follow-up to a study conducted in 1995 on the perceptions of procedural justice when establishing a maternity …
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A day to bleed: exploring the effects of Zambia's Mother's Day policy on the representation of women in the financial sector
This study examined how Zambia's menstruation leave policy, locally referred to as Mother's Day, influences the recruitment and retention of women in the financial and insurance sectors. As the only African nation to formalise menstruation leave, Zambia provided a distinctive context to explore the …
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Experiences Of Female Faculty With Maternity Leave At Four-Year Universities In An Upper Midwest State
… faculty members' experiences with maternity leave, while working as a career academic in higher education. Participants consisted of women currently employed in an upper Midwest state at six four-year institutions. An online survey was completed by 121 women, and 30 of these women also …
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Fathers’ Uptake of Parental Leave in South Korea: Determinants and Aftermaths
While interest in fathers’ uptake of leave is increasing internationally, the extant literature on fathers’ leave primarily documents Western, especially Nordic contexts. Against such a backdrop, my thesis investigates the determinants and aftermaths of fathers’ uptake of leave in South Korea using …
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Teacher Absences in the Commonwealth of Virginia: An Analysis of Patterns and Predictors and Implications for Policy
The research regarding the effect of policy on teacher absenteeism is scarce and research examining teacher absenteeism from a state perspective is very limited. This mixed methods study analyzed selected school variables for public schools and districts in Virginia contained in the 2011-2012 and …
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A descriptive study of leave policies, within mental health and forensic settings in the United Kingdom’s National Health Service
Introduction <br/>‘Leave' occurs when a mental health inpatient exits their hospital ward with authorised permission; limited research has explored the use of leave, nor its implementation in practice (Barlow and Dickens 2018). This study determines the content of leave policies, which operate …
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Inequity in access to paid sick leave in the Seattle area leading up to the COVID-19 pandemic
… To examine inequity in access to paid sick leave (PSL) by race/ethnicity, income, and sex and to examine the association of PSL access with leave-taking, health behaviors, and respiratory pathogen presence among Seattle-area workers. Methods: Survey responses were collected online and …