Trends In The Well Being Of American Women 1970 1995

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Trends in the Well-being of American Women, 1970-1995

Author : Francine D. Blau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (379 download)

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Download or read book Trends in the Well-being of American Women, 1970-1995 written by Francine D. Blau and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper examines the trends in the well-being of American women over the last 25 years, a time of significant changes in the relative economic status of women and in the labor market as a whole. A broad range of indicators are considered to capture changes in women's well-being in the family as well as in the labor market. For virtually all age and education groups, substantial evidence is obtained of rising gender equality in labor market outcomes, notably labor force participation, wages, and occupational distributions. Broad evidence is also found of greater gender parity within married couple families as the housework time of husbands increased relative to wives' and the relative wages of wives rose compared to their husbands'. However, parallel to the recent evidence of the declining labor market position of lower skilled men, there has been a similar deterioration in the economic status of less educated women, especially high school dropouts. Their labor force participation rates and wages have risen at a much slower pace than those of more highly educated women, while their incidence of single headship has increased much more rapidly. These findings for less educated women serve to underscore the widening gap between more and less skilled Americans of both sexes, as well as to emphasize its broad dimensions

Trends in the Well-being of America's Children and Youth

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Trends in the Well-being of America's Children and Youth written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

It's Getting Better All the Time

Author : Stephen Moore
Publisher : Cato Institute
ISBN 13 : 9781882577965
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (779 download)

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Download or read book It's Getting Better All the Time written by Stephen Moore and published by Cato Institute. This book was released on 2000 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text and color graphs and charts describe changes in health, safety, welfare, and environmental and social conditions since 1900.

The Pursuit of Human Well-Being

Author : Richard J. Estes
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319391011
Total Pages : 829 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book The Pursuit of Human Well-Being written by Richard J. Estes and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-01-09 with total page 829 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook informs the reader about how much progress we, the human race, have made in enhancing the quality of life on this planet. Many skeptics focus on how the quality of life has deteriorated over the course of human history, particularly given World War II and its aftermath. This handbook provides a positive perspective on the history of well-being. Quality of life, as documented by scientists worldwide, has significantly improved. Nevertheless, one sees more improvements in well-being in some regions of the world than in others. Why? This handbook documents the progress of well-being in the various world regions as well as the differences in those regions. The broad questions that the handbook addresses include: What does well-being mean? How do different philosophical and religious traditions interpret the concept of well-being within their own context? Has well-being remained the same over different historical epochs and for different regions and subregions of the world? In which areas of human development have we been most successful in advancing individual and collective well-being? In which sectors has the attainment of well-being proven most difficult? How does well-being differ within and between different populations groups that, for a variety of socially created reasons, have been the most disadvantaged (e.g., children, the aged, women, the poor, racial, ethnic, and sexual minorities)?

When Everything Changed

Author : Gail Collins
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 9780316071666
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (716 download)

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Download or read book When Everything Changed written by Gail Collins and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2009-10-14 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gail Collins, New York Times columnist and bestselling author, recounts the astounding revolution in women's lives over the past 50 years, with her usual "sly wit and unfussy style" (People). When Everything Changed begins in 1960, when most American women had to get their husbands' permission to apply for a credit card. It ends in 2008 with Hillary Clinton's historic presidential campaign. This was a time of cataclysmic change, when, after four hundred years, expectations about the lives of American women were smashed in just a generation. A comprehensive mix of oral history and Gail Collins's keen research--covering politics, fashion, popular culture, economics, sex, families, and work--When Everything Changed is the definitive book on five crucial decades of progress. The enormous strides made since 1960 include the advent of the birth control pill, the end of "Help Wanted--Male" and "Help Wanted--Female" ads, and the lifting of quotas for women in admission to medical and law schools. Gail Collins describes what has happened in every realm of women's lives, partly through the testimonies of both those who made history and those who simply made their way. Picking up where her highly lauded book America's Women left off, When Everything Changed is a dynamic story, told with the down-to-earth, amusing, and agenda-free tone for which this beloved New York Times columnist is known. Older readers, men and women alike, will be startled as they are reminded of what their lives once were--"Father Knows Best" and "My Little Margie" on TV; daily weigh-ins for stewardesses; few female professors; no women in the Boston marathon, in combat zones, or in the police department. Younger readers will see their history in a rich new way. It has been an era packed with drama and dreams--some dashed and others realized beyond anyone's imagining.

Warm Hands in Cold Age

Author : Nancy Folbre
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136013741
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Warm Hands in Cold Age written by Nancy Folbre and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public discussion of population aging usually focuses on the financial burden that increasingly elderly populations will impose on younger generations. Scholars give much less attention to who does the actual work of day-to-day care for those no longer able to care for themselves; and although women are the majority among the elderly, little is heard about gender differences in economic resources or the need for care. This volume is dedicated to giving gender - and a full range of social and cultural differences - their rightful place in these discussions. The authors address, amongst other issues: the worldwide dilemmas of eldercare the structure of income and care provisions for older populations the role of family, marital status, and class in these provisions the impact of polices affecting retirement age the role of social insurance in preventing poverty among elderly women. The essays included address these topics in a myriad of geographical contexts, including South Africa, the US, Palestine, Australia, South Korea, Spain, Germany, and Sweden. The concerns highlighted here also remind us that whether through individual families or social insurance, through family caregivers or paid help, the oldest generation will continue to depend on adults of working age for its well-being. This book was previously published as a special issue of Feminist Economics.

Distinguished Women Economists

Author : Julianne Cicarelli
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313016429
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Distinguished Women Economists written by Julianne Cicarelli and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-10-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women are vital members of the economics profession, yet they have traditionally received scant recognition for their work. This volume provides information on 51 remarkable women in the profession. They come from all areas of economics-academia, the business world, public policy-and include those who are currently active as well as 19th-century pioneers in the field. Entries cover biographical information, as well as the subjects' work, providing a unique guide to the many and varied contributions these women have made to economics. Joan Robinson was one of the most significant economists of the 20th century. Juanita Morris Kreps was Secretary of Commerce under Jimmy Carter. And forecasting guru Abbey Joseph Cohen appears regularly on PBS, CNN, and CNBC. Women are vital members of the economics profession, yet they have traditionally received scant recognition for their work. This volume provides information on 51 remarkable women in the profession. They come from all areas of economics-academia, the business world, public policy-and include those who are currently active as well as 19th-century pioneers in the field. Entries cover biographical information, as well as the subjects' work, providing a unique guide to the many and varied contributions these women have made to economics. Seeking to provide balanced coverage, this book covers accomplished and emerging economists, living and deceased individuals, and women from all philosophical perspectives and economic areas. Some have worked in several areas. Kathleen Bell Cooper, for instance, was Chief Economist at Exxon Corporation and is now Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs, while Marina Whitman, now with the University of Michigan Business School, was a senior executive with General Motors and the first woman appointed to the President's Council of Economic Advisors. Others have spent their career in academia. All have been prolific writers, as their entries document, and all made their mark on economics. This book is a testament to their achievements.

Female Entrepreneurship

Author : Nancy M. Carter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113422866X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Female Entrepreneurship written by Nancy M. Carter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This informative book is a comprehensive, research-based text on for educators, trainers and policy makers. It provides an insightful analysis into the range of issues facing female entrepreneurs around the world, along with recommendations as to how support agencies, educators and trainers can best respond to the challenge of encouraging more women to get involved in the new business creation. Based on a collection of research papers from international scholars based in the UK, mainland Europe, the USA and Australia, it provides a superbly comprehensive analysis of the challenges and opportunities faced by female entrepreneurs worldwide. With contributors from Sara Carter, Candida Brush, John Watson and Elisabet Ljunggren, the book helps advance the general understanding of female entrepreneurship and helps set a research agenda on how best to promote female owned/led businesses nationally and internationally.

Women in Higher Education

Author : Ana M. Martinez Aleman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1576076156
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Women in Higher Education written by Ana M. Martinez Aleman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-12-13 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only comprehensive encyclopedia on the subject of women in higher education. America's first wave of feminists—Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and others—included expanded opportunities for higher education in their Declaration of Sentiments at the first Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York, in l848. By then, the first American institutions to educate women had been founded, among them, Mt. Holyoke Seminary, in l837. However, not until after the Civil War did most universities admit women—and not for egalitarian purposes. War casualties had caused a drop in enrollment and the states needed teachers. Women students paid tuition, but, as teachers, were paid salaries half that of men. By the late 20th century, there were more female than male students of higher education, but women remained underrepresented at the higher levels of educational leadership and training. This volume covers everything from historical and cultural context and gender theory to women in the curriculum and as faculty and administrators.

The Eighties

Author : John Ehrman
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300106629
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Eighties written by John Ehrman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible and balanced account of the eighties tracks the transformation of America in the context of Ronald Reagan's policies and convictions and in terms of the broader global, political, social, economic, and cultural trends that allowed Reagan to accomplish much of his agenda.

Expanding Our Understanding of the Psychosocial Work Environment

Author : Meg A. Bond
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Expanding Our Understanding of the Psychosocial Work Environment written by Meg A. Bond and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2007 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1996, NIOSH created the National Occupational Research Agenda to advance occupational safety and health research for the nation. This agenda encompassed 21 priority research areas, including Special Populations at Risk. This priority area was created in recognition of the fact that the nation's increasingly diverse workforce contains many women, older workers, and racial and ethnic minorities. Disparities in the burden of disease, disability, and death are experienced by these groups, due in part to their disproportionate employment in high hazard industries and to certain social, cultural and political factors. This document was developed by the investigators from the University of Massachusetts Lowell at the request of the Special Populations at Risk Team to fill that gap by disseminating to the broader occupational safety and health community a concise and accessible compendium of measures used by health researchers to assess the following domains: racism and racial/ethnic prejudice, sexism and sexual harassment, gender and racial discrimination, work-family integration and balance, support for diversity in the workplace/workforce."--Page iii

Economy/Society

Author : Bruce G. Carruthers
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1412994969
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Economy/Society written by Bruce G. Carruthers and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2013 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This long-awaited second edition of Economy/Society offers an accessible introduction to the way social arrangements affect economic activity, showing that economic exchanges are deeply embedded in social relationships. It presents sociological answers to many important questions & encourages readers to view the economy through a sociological lens.

Freedom Reclaimed

Author : John E. Schwarz
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801879814
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Freedom Reclaimed written by John E. Schwarz and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2005-01-02 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Has the nation's infatuation with the free market warped the true meaning of American freedom by its emphasis on the self-serving individual in a "looking out for Number One" world? Freedom is America's most treasured value. In Freedom Reclaimed, John E. Schwarz examines the profound implications of the difference between the vision of American freedom that the Founders enshrined in the Declaration of Independence and the free-market idea of freedom that is ascendant today. Schwarz shows how the three-decade shift toward free-market freedom has brought economic hardship to the majority of Americans and suffering to the political life of the nation. As the nation moves further away from its impelling original commitment, most Americans now have only limited access to the freedom the Founders envisioned. Schwarz sets forth a program that can help America return to its ennobling vision and resume its historic journey. In policy discussions on employment, education, social issues, and health care, Schwarz recasts our understanding of what freedom means and involves. In so doing, he transforms the way we see our world and revitalizes our ability to change it for the better.

Poverty and Discrimination

Author : Kevin Lang
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 140083919X
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Poverty and Discrimination written by Kevin Lang and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-11 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many ideas about poverty and discrimination are nothing more than politically driven assertions unsupported by evidence. And even politically neutral studies that do try to assess evidence are often simply unreliable. In Poverty and Discrimination, economist Kevin Lang cuts through the vast literature on poverty and discrimination to determine what we actually know and how we know it. Using rigorous statistical analysis and economic thinking to judge what the best research is and which theories match the evidence, this book clears the ground for students, social scientists, and policymakers who want to understand--and help reduce--poverty and discrimination. It evaluates how well antipoverty and antidiscrimination policies and programs have worked--and whether they have sometimes actually made the problems worse. And it provides new insights about the causes of, and possible solutions to, poverty and discrimination. The book begins by asking, "Who is poor?" and by giving a brief history of poverty and poverty policy in the United States in the twentieth century, including the Welfare Reform Act of 1996. Among the topics covered are the changing definition of poverty, the relation between economic growth and poverty, and the effects of labor markets, education, family composition, and concentrated poverty. The book then evaluates the evidence on racial discrimination in areas such as education, employment, and criminal justice, as well as sex discrimination in the labor market, and assesses the effectiveness of antidiscrimination policies. Throughout, the book is grounded in the conviction that we must have much better empirical knowledge of poverty and discrimination if we hope to reduce them.

Amartya Sen's Capability Approach and Social Justice in Education

Author : Melanie Walker
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230604811
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Amartya Sen's Capability Approach and Social Justice in Education written by Melanie Walker and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-07-09 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling book introduces Nobel laureate Amartya Sen's capability approach and explores its significance for theory, policy and practice in education. The book looks particularly at questions concerning the education of children, gender equality, and higher education. Contributors hail from the UK, USA, Australia, Italy and Mexico.

The Encyclopedia of Aging

Author : George L. Maddox
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3662383381
Total Pages : 1357 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Aging written by George L. Maddox and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-11 with total page 1357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive multidisciplinary encyclopedia dealing with aging processes and older adults. Intended for "the educated inquirer who needs a brief authoritative introduction to key topics and issues in aging." Signed entries contain cross references. Contains lengthy bibliography. General index.

Sex Differences in Labor Markets

Author : David Neumark
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113599675X
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Sex Differences in Labor Markets written by David Neumark and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-01-29 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Neumarks work on gender and labor markets appears for the first time in one book here with new introductory material.