Women, Work, and Poverty: Women Centered Research for Policy Change
- ISBN-10
- 0789032457
- ISBN-13
- 9780789032454
- Category
- Poor women
- Pages
- 246
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Author
- Heidi I. Hartmann
Description
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 analysis of personnel records, the book explores different aspects of women's poverty since the passage of the 1986 welfare reform bill. Anthropologists, economists, political scientists, sociologists, and social workers examine marriage, divorce, children and child care, employment and work schedules, disabilities, mental health, and education, and look at income support programs, such as welfare and unemployment insurance.
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