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Changing State Feminism
Most Western democracies established women's policy agencies to improve the status of women by the 1990s. One of the book's key questions is how have women's policy agencies been able to develop, maintain or enhance their roles in the transformed political context and how have women's movements adapted to change in twelve states.
Strategic Planning for School Library Media Centers
A strategic plan is a useful tool for communicating the purpose of the library media center (LMC) to the administrators, teachers, and parents of the school community. An initial benefit is an assessment of the library program's strengths, weaknesses, and impact on the teaching and learning process. The library media specialist should use the planning process to garner greater support, identify priorities for future direction, provide the basis for effective budget development, and articulate the LMC's integral role in the school's instructional program. Based on Information Power, as well as input from focus groups of librarians, computer educators, teachers, administrators, and parents, th...
HBR Women at Work Boxed Set (6 Books)
Inspiring conversations, advancing together. The HBR Women at Work series spotlights the real challenges and opportunities women experience throughout their careers. With interviews from the popular podcast of the same name, and related articles, stories, and research, each book provides inspiration and advice for taking on topics at work such as inequity, advancement, and building community. Featuring detailed discussion guides, these books will help you spark important conversations about where we're at and how to move forward. This specially priced set, available as a six-volume paperback boxed set or as an ebook set, includes: Making Real Connections Next-Level Negotiating Speak Up, Speak Out Taking Charge of Your Career Thriving in a Male-Dominated Workplace You, the Leader
Making It Work
"This book examines how working below or near the poverty line affects not just parents' well-being but their children's development their school performance and engagement, their social behaviors, and their expectations for their future. ...The New Hope Project was a program to provides supports for Milwaukee adults who worked full-time. We use evidence from the Child and Family Study (CFS) ..."--p.2.
Single Mothers Working at Night
Using a data set from the post welfare reform environment (the 1999 National Survey of America's Families), this paper investigates the impact of child care subsidies on the standard work (i.e., work performed during the traditional work hours of 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. through Monday and Friday) decision of single mothers and tests whether this impact differs between welfare recipients and nonrecipients. The econometric strategy accounts for sample selection into the labor force and the potential endogeneity of child care subsidy receipt and welfare participation. Results suggest that child care subsidies are associated with a 6 percentage point increase in the probability of single mothers worki...
Women’s Employment in Muslim Countries
This book presents a new and nuanced exploration of the position of women in Muslim countries, based on research involving more than 300,000 women in 28 Muslim countries. It addresses topical debates on the role of Islam, modernization, globalization, neocolonialism, educational inequalities, patriarchy, household hierarchies, and more.
Handbook of Feminist Governance
Compiling state-of-the-art research from 58 leading international scholars, this dynamic Handbook explores the evolution of feminist analytical and organising principles and their introduction into governance institutions in national, regional and global settings.
