Parcel,Toby L.

Work & family research informing policy / [Book :] Work and family. Toby L. Parcel, Daniel B. Cornfield, editors. - Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2000. - xv, 288 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Work and family in women's lives in the German Democratic Republic / Heike Trapp -- Public opinion and congressional action on work, family, and gender, 1945-1990 / Paul Burstein and Susan Wierzbicki -- The juggling act -- Do Americans feel overworked? comparing ideal and actual working time / Jerry A. Jacobs and Kathleen Gerson -- Nonstandard employment schedules among American mothers : the relevance of marital stature / 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 -- The 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 Iverson and Naomi Farber.

All age.

0761913076 0761913084 (alk. paper)

99050414


Work and family.
Women--Employment.
Work and family--United States.
Women--Employment--United States.

HD4904.25 / .W686 2000

306.36