ISBN:
9780789032454
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (212 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Women, Work, and Poverty : Women Centered Research for Policy Change
DDC:
305.4896942
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Find out how welfare reform has affected women living at the poverty levelWomen, Work, and Poverty presents the latest information on women living at or below the poverty level and the changes that need to be made in public policy to allow them to rise above their economic hardships. Using a wide range of research methods, including in-depth interviews, focus groups, small-scale surveys, and analysis of personnel records, the book explores different aspects of women's poverty since the passage of the 1986 welfare reform bill. Anthropologists, economists, political scientists, sociologists, and
Description / Table of Contents:
Front Cover; Women, Work, and Poverty: Women Centered Research for Policy Change; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction: Heidi Hartmann; Marriage, Work, Poverty and Children; The Changing Impact of Marriage, Motherhood and Work on Women's Poverty: Hilarie Lieb andSusan Thistle; Anti-Discrimination vs. Anti-Poverty? A Comparison of Pay Equity and Living Wage Reforms: Pamela Stone andArielle Kuperberg; Getting Beyond the Training vs. Work Experience Debate: The Role of Labor Markets, Social Capital, Cultural Capital, and Community Resources in Long-Term Poverty: Jo Anne Schneider
Description / Table of Contents:
Welfare Status and Child Care as Obstacles to Full-Time Work for Low-Income Mothers: Julie Press, Janice Johnson-Dias andJay FaganChallenges Faced by Women with Disabilities Under TANF: Mary Kay Schleiter, Anne Statham andTeresa Reinders; The Work-Family Time Binds of Low-Income Mothers: Nurse Aides Struggle to Care: Peggy Kahn; Advancing Women of Color; When the Spirit Blooms: Acquiring Higher Education in the Context of Welfare Reform: Avis A. Jones-DeWeever; Policy Implications of Supporting Women of Color in the Sciences: Angela Johnson
Description / Table of Contents:
The Production of the Female Entrepreneurial Subject: A Space of Exclusion for Women of Color?: Mélanie KnightIncome and Income Security; The Ability of Women to Repay Debt After Divorce: Jonathan Fisher,Angela Lyons; Women's Job Loss and Material Hardship: Vicky Lovell,Gi-Taik Oh; Who Gets What? Gender Differences in "Spendable" Income: Tamara Ohler,Nancy Folbre; About the Contributors; Index;
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