Dual-Career Families

Based on extensive survey data, this book presents the first comprehensive examination of public sector dual-career couples and the problems commonly faced by human resource managers in this area. In addition to providing guidance on legislative issues and judicial policies that affect the employment of dual-career couples, the authors explore strategies for resolving critical policy obstacles and integrating these employees into the workplace.

Drawing on the work of social historians, political economists, sociologists, and psychologists, the authors go well beyond the usual arguments that show how the needs of the newly industrializing society eroded the traditional bonds of kinship.

Do careers today demand more spatial mobility? How are two careers accommodated and managed within one household? This book explores the gender issues associated with international migration in dual-career households.

Why do so many career-oriented women end up with nearly sole responsibility for running their households and raising their children? This book traces the decisions that women and men make before and after marriage that lead to this outcome.

This book analyzes the effects of wives' employment on the economic status of families, using both descriptive and empirical research. The historical and socio-economic causes of change in the employment status of wives and husbands are detailed. The empirical studies respond to some basic questions about dual-earner families: How does having an employed wife influence family lifestyles? What effects do dual-earners have on the finances of their households and on the distribution of income? What policy changes are needed to recognize the economic importance of dual-earner families?

Women's Careers explores contexts and strategies that advance or hinder women's career development. It brings readers up-to-date on the intersection of the cross-disciplinary fields of career development, women's studies, and human resources. The applied focus and broad range of topics covered will appeal to scholars and professionals in these fields. Women's Careers examines four key topic areas: an introduction to current issues and research; planning and preparation, including insights into topics such as mentors' roles, cultural differences, women and leadership, and career versus family conflicts; challenges in the work environment for women entrepreneurs and supervisors; and affirmative action and sexual harassment.

With growing numbers of women in the military and their roles in the Persian Gulf War, Somalia, and Bosnia, there is increasing interest in such issues as their full integration and their role in combat. Yet women's participation in the military is not new, and these very issues have been studied in the past. This book provides the only comprehensive annotated bibliography on women in the U.S. military, from the establishment of the Army Nurse Corps in 1901 to the first deployment of women on combat ships in 1995. The opening chapter describes how to access available information on women. The following chapters cover women in the military in general; women in the Air Force, Army, Navy and Coast Guard, and Marine Corps; women in nursing corps; women at service academies; and such topics as pregnancy issues, sex issues, women in combat, and women veterans.