Women category: 49097 books
Mothers on the Fast Track
How a New Generation Can Balance Family and Careers
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2007
In the past few decades the number of women entering graduate and professional schools has been going up and up, while the number of women reaching the top rung of the corporate and academic worlds has remained relatively stagnant. Why are so many women falling off the fast track? In this timely book,...
Women, Work, and the Web
How the Web Creates Entrepreneurial Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
In a tight economy women entrepreneurs are making progress in a field that has been traditionally (along with science, math, and engineering) one which women haven’t been well represented—technology. Women, Work, and the Web: How the Web Creates Entrepreneurial Opportunities is by contributors...
Women and the Public Interest
Policy and Protest in American Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Jessie Bernard, in this serious book, pulls into an analytic framework the research, theory, and polemics about the status and problems of women as they relate to public policy. With a scholarly, deeply concerned eye, the author comprehensively examines areas of public interest, human resource development...
Gendering Globalization on the Ground
The Limits of Feminized Work for Mexican Women’s Empowerment
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
How has globalization worked for women working on the frontlines of neoliberalism on the Mexico-US border? This border divides "US" from "Others," and produces social inequalities that form a site where marginalized border women encounter the othering power of neoliberalism and...
Women's Contemporary Lives
Within and Beyond the Mirror
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
As increasing numbers of women return to work or education after starting or raising a family, it can no longer be assumed that education, employment, family is a defining progression for women in the Western world.
Women's Contemporary Lives questions notions of success and equality as they are measured...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The notion of work and employment of work and employment for women is complex. While economic factors predominantly determine a mans participation in employment, the reasons why women work, or do not work, or whether they work part-time or full-time, can be diverse and are often rooted in a complex interplay...
Roar Like a Woman
How Feminists Think Women Suck and Men Rock
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Are you a feminist? Or are you a masculinist? It's a trick question—they're the same thing, says mother of two and parenting magazine journalist, Natalie Ritchie.
Five decades after feminism began, women are trapped in a masculinist dead end. Feminists claim to be women's friend, but their...
by Lori Latrice Martin
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
Most studies about black women and social justice issues focus on the responses of black women to racism within the context of the feminist movement and/or the responses of black women to sexism in black liberation movements. Such discussions often fail to explore the ways in which black women's commitment...
Socialist Women
Britain, 1880s to 1920s
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
This fascinating new study examines the experiences of women involved in the socialist movement during its formative years in Britain and the active role they played in campaigning for the vote. By giving full attention to this much-neglected group of women, Socialist Women examines and challenges...
Women's Movements in Asia
Feminisms and Transnational Activism
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
Women's Movements in Asia is a comprehensive study of women’s activism across Asia. With chapters written by leading international experts, it provides a full overview of the history of feminism, as well as the current context of the women’s movement in 12 countries: the Philippines, China, Indonesia,...
by Cheng Sim Hew
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2003
In many parts of South-East Asia, women's lifestyles are going through enormous changes as women move from traditional rural, agricultural lifestyles to modern, urban lifestyles, which often involve migration to cities, taking on paid work, and having a quite different relationship with their families....
by Nishimura Junko
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
This book explores the employment of Japanese women born in the 1960s and 1970s who experienced childbirth and raised children in the 1990s and the early 2000s. During this period, the Japanese economy experienced a severe recession. It has affected the firm-specific internal labour market and on...
Bodied Mindfulness
Women’s Spirits, Bodies and Places
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
“I see spirituality and social change to be integrally related to each other. I believe that liberation efforts that are supported by spiritual experiences of integration promote human dignity as well as social equality.”
Bodied Mindfulness combines spiritual, social and analytical perspectives...
Citizenship Rites
Feminist Soldiers and Feminist Antimilitarists
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
In the United States, the question of women in the armed services has been continuously and hotly debated. Among feminists, two fundamentally differing views of women in the military have developed. Feminist antimilitarists tell us that militarism and patriarchy have together pressed women into second...