Some of the fastest-growing professions with nonstandard work hours are dominated by women.
Janet Gornick
Janet C. Gornick is professor of political science and sociology at the Graduate Center, at the City University of New York.
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Atlantic Passages
Many rich countries do a far better job than the United States does of supporting workers who are balancing the competing demands of employment and parenthood. Several European countries, especially in northern and western Europe, provide extensive work/family reconciliation policies — including paid family leave, public early-childhood education and care, and working-time measures that raise […]
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Reconcilable Differences
In the true marriage relation the independence of the husband and wife is equal, their dependence mutual and their obligations reciprocal. — Lucretia Mott (1793-1880) Feminists have long been queasy about marriage, but our queasiness is not about marriage per se; it concerns the way marriage has been practiced. The religious right paints feminists as […]
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Support for Working Families
F our decades of steady growth in femaleemployment have gone a long way toward closing the job gap between women and menin the industrialized countries. One of the most striking changes in Europe andthe United States has been the rise in employment among mothers with youngchildren. Nearly 85 percent of U.S. mothers employed before childbearing […]