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12/95/
ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED160725 AUTHOR: Cook, Alice H.
TITLE: The Working Mother: A Survey of Problems and
Programs
in Nine Countries.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1978
NOTE: 80 p.
AVAILABILITY: Publications Division, New York State School
of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, Box
1000, Ithaca, New York l4853 ($4.75)
ABSTRACT: Married women in the labor market are victimized
all over the world, mainly because women's work-life cycle
differs radically from that of men. During a review of
recent research data and a fifteen-month study tour in nine
communist and non-communist countries, it was found that
working mothers continue to carry a double burden of home
and child care duties, on the one hand, and employment, on
the other. Lack of coordination among labor market, social
welfare, and educational policy makers has resulted in
(with
the possible exception of Sweden) ineffectual social
policies that don't adequately accomodate or support
womens'
special needs and circumstances. Immediate provision of
child care facilities for part-time work could serve as
intermediate solutions until society adapts over the long
run to new definitions of sex roles and equalization of
parental responsibilities. In the United States, a maternal
bill of rights could be instituted to maximize women's
productivity and earnings and to alleviate some of the
burden now borne by working mothers. (Author/KR)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Affirmative-Action; Child-Care; Developed
Nations; Educational-Benefits; Labor-Force; Part-Time
Employment; Sex-Discrimination; Social-Welfare
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Employed-Women;
*Equal-Opportunities-Jobs;
*Government-Role; *Labor-Market; *Mothers-
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