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Conference Women's Policy Research Conference (7th : 2003 : Washington, D.C.)

Title Women, work, and poverty : women centered research for policy change / Heidi Hartmann, editor.

Publication Info. New York : Haworth Political Press, [2005]
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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  331.4 W872WWA    Check Shelf
Description 213 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Note "Co-published simultaneously as Journal of women, politics & policy, volume 27, numbers 3/4 2005."
Works presented at the Seventh International Women's Policy Research Conference, 'Women Working to Make a Difference, ' held in Washington, DC, in 2003.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The changing impact of marriage, motherhood and work on women's poverty / Hilarie Lieb, Susan Thistle -- Anti-discrimination vs. anti-poverty? : a comparison of pay equity and living wage reforms / Pamela Stone, 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, Jay Fagan -- Challenges faced by women with disabilities under TANF / Mary Kay Schleiter, Anne Statham, Teresa Reinders -- The work-family time binds of low-income mothers : nurse aides struggle to care / Peggy Kahn -- 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 -- The ability of women to repay debt after divorce / Jonathan Fisher, Angela Lyons -- Women's job loss and material hardship / Vicky Lovell, Gi-Taik Oh -- Who gets what? : gender differences in "spendable" income / Tamara Ohler, Nancy Folbre.
Subject Poor women -- United States -- Congresses.
Women heads of households -- United States -- Congresses.
Wages -- Women -- United States -- Congresses.
Women -- United States -- Social conditions -- Congresses.
Added Author Hartmann, Heidi I.
Added Title Journal of women, politics, & policy.
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