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According to the U.S. Department of Labor, women made up 46.4 percent of the civilian labor force in 2005, and that percentage is expected to reach 47 percent by 2014. Professional and health-related occupations are the fastest-growing roles for women, with computer-related, environmental, and educational fields also drawing increasingly on the female workforce. The bottom line at a macro level is that, more and more, women are driving the country's...
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In this book, the author gets up close and personal with college-educated, unemployed men, women, and their spouses to explain how comparable men and women have starkly different experiences of unemployment. Traditionally-gendered understandings of work - that it's a requirement for men and optional for women - loom large in this process, even for marriages that had been not organized in gender-traditional ways. These beliefs serve to make men's unemployment...
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"In a time of societal transition, women and men around the globe struggle to combine careers and family in new ways. However, conventional work and family structures and power imbalances between women and men often reinforce traditional gender stereotypes in both home and office." "In an effort to understand the roots of gender inequality, Myra Strober and Agnes Miling Kaneko Chan conducted an extensive survey of the 1981 graduates of Stanford and...
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