1st Edition
Women, Work, and Poverty Women Centered Research for Policy Change
By Heidi I. Hartmann
Copyright 2005
222 Pages
by
Routledge
222 Pages
by
Routledge
222 Pages
by
Routledge
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Find out how welfare reform has affected women living at the poverty level Women, 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... Read more
- Introduction (Heidi Hartmann)
- MARRIAGE, WORK, POVERTY, AND CHILDREN
- The Changing Impact of Marriage, Motherhood and Work on Women’s Poverty (Hilarie Lieb and Susan Thistle)
- Anti-Discrimination vs. Anti-Poverty? A Comparison of Pay Equity and Living Wage Reforms (Pamela Stone and Arielle 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)
- Welfare Status and Child Care as Obstacles to Full-Time Work for Low-Income Mothers (Julie Press, Janice Johnson-Dias, and Jay Fagan)
- Challenges Faced by Women with Disabilities Under TANF (Mary Kay Schleiter, Anne Statham, and Teresa 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)
- The Production of the Female Entrepreneurial Subject: A Space of Exclusion for
Women of Color? (Mélanie Knight) - INCOME AND INCOME SECURITY
- The Ability of Women to Repay Debt After Divorce (Jonathan Fisher and Angela Lyons)
- Women’s Job Loss and Material Hardship (Vicky Lovell and Gi-Taik Oh)
- Who Gets What? Gender Differences in “Spendable” Income (Tamara Ohler and Nancy Folbre)
- About the Contributors
- Index
- Reference Notes Included
Biography
Hartmann, Heidi I.
