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"family or career,? while the second, graduating from 1945 to the early 1960s, opted for family and employment serially - that … is, "family then job." The third, graduating since 1980 in a climate of greater gender equality, is attempting both … "family and career, " with mixed results and considerable frustration. This paper assesses the reasons for the changing set of …
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"family or career,? while the second, graduating from 1945 to the early 1960s, opted for family and employment serially - that … is, "family then job." The third, graduating since 1980 in a climate of greater gender equality, is attempting both … "family and career, " with mixed results and considerable frustration. This paper assesses the reasons for the changing set of …
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This paper describes the very different role played by female elites in contemporary developing countries, as compared to the 'early' industrializing countries of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. It shows that women are far more important in business and politics in today's developing...
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, family-related and educational migration motives. Generally speaking, young women tend to choose regions with good income and … job opportunities, in addition they seem to be attracted by regions enabling an appropriate balance between family and …
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Using data from the Bicol region of the Phillipines, we examine why women are more educated than men in a rural, agricultural economy in which women are significantly less likely than men to participate in the labor market. We hypothesize that educational homogamy in the marriage market and...
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Using data from the Bicol region of the Philippines, we examine why women are more educated than men in a rural, agricultural economy in which women are significantly less likely than men to participate in the labor market. We hypothesize that educational homogamy in the marriage market and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013113168
Studies of work/family arrangements over time and space typically analyse families by the extent to which they follow a …
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Between 1972 and 1978 U.S. high schools rapidly increased their female athletic participation rates - to approximately the same level as their male athletic participation rates - in order to comply with Title IX, a policy change that provides a unique quasi-experiment in female athletic...
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