Women And The World Of Work (nato Conference Series)

From August 4 to 8, 1980, the Science Committee of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) sponsored the symposium, "Women and the World of Work," which was held at the Hotel Sintra Estoril in the coastal area south of Lisbon, Portugal. This symposium hatl been "in progress" since 1977 when the idea to prepare a proposal for a NATO­ sponsored symposium on the topic of women and the military was first suggested by Dr. Walter Wilkins, then Scientific Director of the Naval Health Research Center, San Diego, California. At that time and during the previous 5 years, increasing numbers of women were being recruited into military service not only in the United States but also in several NATO-allied countries. Few research projects on the utilization of women in the military had been reported in the scientific literature with the exception of work conducted at the University of Chicago and Naval Health Research Center. Several investigators, however, were identified who had recently initiated research in this area-and who expressed interest in participating in the proposed symposium. A few months after submitting the proposal, Dr. B. A. Bayraktar, Director of the Scientific Affairs Division responded that the members of the Science Committee recommended the deletion of those segments of the tentative program which pertained to women and the military. The reason given for this suggested change was that the topic chosen was similar to the theme of other recent international conferences. Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Introduction....Pages 3-20 Women as World Makers....Pages 21-34 The Education and Employment of Women Scientists and Engineers in the United States....Pages 35-53 Elected Women: Skewers of the Political System....Pages 55-64 The Relationship between the Labor Force Employment of Women and the Changing Social Organization in Canada....Pages 65-76 Power and Political Behaviors in Organizations: A New Frontier for Research on Male/Female Differences....Pages 77-84 Sex-Role Stereotypes and Personal Attributes within a Developmental Framework....Pages 85-93 Front Matter....Pages 95-95 Introduction....Pages 97-108 Bringing Down the Rear: The Decline in the Relative Economic Position of Single-Mother Families....Pages 109-127 Job Creation and Unemployment for Canadian Women 1 ....Pages 129-152 Poverty Viewed as a Woman’s Problem—The U.S. Case....Pages 153-177 Poverty, Work, and Mental Health: The Experience of Low-Income Mothers 1 ....Pages 179-188 Front Matter....Pages 189-189 Introduction....Pages 191-201 Microeconomic Effects of Women Entering the Labor Force....Pages 203-221 Women Workers and The Family Wage in Canada....Pages 223-237 A Statistical Analysis of Female Participation in Work and Effects on the Population and Socioeconomic Development: A Case Study of Greece....Pages 239-253 Labor Force Participation and Earnings of Women in Andalusia 1 ....Pages 255-267 Economic Aspects of Female Labor Force Participation in the Federal Republic of Germany....Pages 269-278 Front Matter....Pages 279-279 Introduction....Pages 281-294 Child Care Use and Constraints in the United States 1 ....Pages 295-304 Front Matter....Pages 279-279 The Attitude of Danish Mothers to Child Care, 1975 to 1979....Pages 305-320 Research on Women’s Work and the Family at the Urban Institute....Pages 321-330 Women’s Work Participation and the Economic Support of Children....Pages 331-339 Concluding Comment....Pages 341-345 Back Matter....Pages 347-390