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

Other author Parcel, Toby L.
Other author Cornfield, Daniel B.
Format Book
Publication InfoThousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, ©2000.
Descriptionxv, 288 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Subjects
Work and family.
Women--Employment.
Work and family--United States.
Women--Employment. --United States.

Variant title Work and family
Contents Setting the stage. 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 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. 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 B. Farber.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 99050414
ISBN0761913076 (alk. paper)
ISBN0761913084 (alk. paper)