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Title Work & family : research informing policy / Toby L. Parcel, Daniel B. Cornfield, editors.

Imprint Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c2000.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  306.36 W892    ---  Available
Description xvi, 288 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Setting the state. Work and family in women's lives in the German Democratic Republic / Heike Trappe -- Public opinion and congressional action on work, family, and gender, 1945-1990 / Paul Burstein and Susan Wierzbicki -- Juggling act. Do American feel overworked? comparing ideal and actual working time / Jerry A. Jacobs and Kathleen Gerson -- Nonstandard employment schedules among American mothers : the relevance of marital status / Amy G. Cox and Harriet B. Presser -- Effects of public and private policies on working after childbirth / Sandra Hofferth -- Returning to work : the impact of gender, family, and work on terminating a family or medical leave / Joanne C. Sandberg and Daniel B. Cornfield -- Later in the life course. Effects of parental work and maternal nonemployment on children's reading and math achievement / Toby L. Parcel, Rebecca A. Nickoll, and Mikaela J. Dufur -- Work-family orientations and attainments in the early life course / Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson and Jeylan T. Mortimer -- Transmission of family values, work, and welfare among poor urban Black women / Roberta Rehner Iversen and Naomi B. Farber.
Subject Work and family.
Women -- Employment.
Added Author Parcel, Toby L.
Cornfield, Daniel B.
Added Title Work and family
ISBN 0761913084 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0761913076 (alk. paper)

 
    
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