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WOMEN'S WORK AND WORKING WOMEN
Gender & Society, 2001The demand for female labor is a central explanatory component of macrostructural theories of gender stratification. This study analyzes how the structural demand for female labor affects gender differences in labor force participation. The authors develop a measure of the gendered demand for labor by indexing the degree to which the occupational ...
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Work, 1994
An understanding of what work means to women is provided with an overview of history; a review of unpaid work, including child care, parental care, and volunteerism; and the current status of women and work. Women's leadership style emphasizing team building, empowerment, and a consensus model is described. The need for validation of the multiple roles
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An understanding of what work means to women is provided with an overview of history; a review of unpaid work, including child care, parental care, and volunteerism; and the current status of women and work. Women's leadership style emphasizing team building, empowerment, and a consensus model is described. The need for validation of the multiple roles
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Working women and the menopause
Climacteric, 2015Women are living longer, working more and retiring later. About 45% of the over 50-year-old workforce in virtually all forms of employment are women, all of whom will experience the menopause and its symptoms, which in some women will be mild to moderate, whilst in others they may be severe and debilitating.
T, Kopenhager, F, Guidozzi
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Menopause, 1991
Menopause occurs in American women at an average age of 51. At this time in their lives a majority of today’s women work outside the home for pay at least part-time, if not full-time (McKinlay, 1988). There is considerable evidence that women who are working experience fewer symptoms at menopause and are better able to cope with the stresses of family ...
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Menopause occurs in American women at an average age of 51. At this time in their lives a majority of today’s women work outside the home for pay at least part-time, if not full-time (McKinlay, 1988). There is considerable evidence that women who are working experience fewer symptoms at menopause and are better able to cope with the stresses of family ...
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Women, Work, and Culture [PDF]
Journal of the European Economic Association, 2007 This paper discusses some recent advances in the area of culture and economics and examines the effect of culture on a key economic outcome: female labour supply. To separate the effect of market variables and institutions from culture, I use an epidemiological approach, studying second-generation American women.
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Women's Studies International Forum, 1988
Abstract This article raises some of the issues of being defined as a “Community Women's Workshop” at the Congress in Ireland. Background information is given on the organisers of the Women Working for Women course. The course aimed to place the problems and issues facing women working for women in the context of the role and value of women in ...
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Abstract This article raises some of the issues of being defined as a “Community Women's Workshop” at the Congress in Ireland. Background information is given on the organisers of the Women Working for Women course. The course aimed to place the problems and issues facing women working for women in the context of the role and value of women in ...
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Women and the Work of Community [PDF]
Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2003 The term ‘community’ is an integral part of the discourse regarding social-service and human-service delivery in the United States, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom. Yet, there are a host of meanings and goals that are part of the project of community; these meanings reflect the ambiguous position of community with respect to ideas of ...
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2018
What's it really like to be a mother with a career working flexibly? Drawing on over 100 hours of interview data, this book is the first to go inside women's work and family lives in a year of working flexibly. The private labours of going part-time, job sharing, and home working are brought to life with vivid personal stories.
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What's it really like to be a mother with a career working flexibly? Drawing on over 100 hours of interview data, this book is the first to go inside women's work and family lives in a year of working flexibly. The private labours of going part-time, job sharing, and home working are brought to life with vivid personal stories.
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Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 1977
Eight females (mean age 19.6 years) worked on a treadmill for a work day consisting of eight partially counterbalanced 45-minute periods (one of light work, two of moderate work, three of heavy work, and two of very heavy work) followed by a 15-minute rest period.
M G, Wardle, D S, Gloss
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Eight females (mean age 19.6 years) worked on a treadmill for a work day consisting of eight partially counterbalanced 45-minute periods (one of light work, two of moderate work, three of heavy work, and two of very heavy work) followed by a 15-minute rest period.
M G, Wardle, D S, Gloss
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