Women and the World of Work

Abstract

I: Women and the World of Work: Contributions and Progress.- Women as World Makers.- The Education and Employment of Women Scientists and Engineers in the United States.- Elected Women: Skewers of the Political System.- The Relationship between the Labor Force Employment of Women and the Changing Social Organization in Canada.- Power and Political Behaviors in Organizations: A New Frontier for Research on Male/Female Differences.- Sex-Role Stereotypes and Personal Attributes within a Developmental Framework.- II: Women and the World of Work: Physical, Mental, and Economic Well-Being.- Bringing Down the Rear: The Decline in the Economic Position of Single-Mother Families.- Job Creation and Unemployment for Canadian Women.- Poverty Viewed as a Woman's Problem-The U.S. Case.- Poverty, Work, and Mental Health: The Experience of Low-Income Mothers.- III: Women and the World of Work: Socioeconomic Factors Affecting Women's Increased Labor Force Participation.- Microeconomic Effects of Women Entering the Labor Force.- Women's Work and the Family Wage in Canada.- A Statistical Analysis of Female Participation in Work and the Effects on the Population and Socioeconomic Development: A Case Study of Greece.- Labor Force Participation and Earnings of Women in Andalusia.- Economic Aspects of Female Labor Force Participation in the Federal Republic of Germany.- IV: Women and the World of Work: Role Integration and Revision.- Child Care Use and Constraints in the United States.- The Attitude of Danish Mothers to Child Care, 1975-1979.- Research on Women's Work and the Family at the Urban Institute.- Women's Work Participation and the Economic Support of Children.- Concluding Comment.- About the Authors.- List of Participants.