To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1963 report of the President's commission on the Status of Women, the US Department of Labor (DOL) Women's Bureau, in collaboration with the DOL's Chief Evaluation Office, commissioned a series of papers to examine the progress that has been made on the status of working women and to highlight the work that remains to be done. The original report addressed employment-related issues such as: education and counselling; childcare; equality in private employment; labour standards, e.g. minimum wages, maximum hours, equal pay, and the right to organise; unemployment insurance; maternity benefits; and women in public office. The 10 papers in the anniversary publication discuss a range of issues currently affecting women in the labour force.
The contents are as follows: Introduction / Latifa Lyles (pages 1-2); The New Mexico Pay Equity Initiative: a template for narrowing the gender pay gap / Martha Burk (pages 3-23); Women, Jobs and opportunity in the 21st century / Anthony P. Carnevale, Nicole Smith (pages 25-54); Changing families, changing work / Ellen Galinsky, Anne Weisberg (pages 56-87); Occupational segregation and the gender wage gap: a job half done / Ariane Hegewisch, Heidi Hartmann (pages 89-119); Paid parental leave in the United States: what the data tell us about access, usage, and economic and health benefits / Heidi Hartmann, Lindsey Reichlin, Jessica Milli, Barbara Gault, Ariane Hegewisch (pages 121-186); Women and work: 50 years of change since the American Women Report / Lisa Maatz, Anne Hedgepeth (pages 188-211); Policy, education and social change: fifty years of progress / Catherine Hill, Erin Prangley (pages 213-236); Low wages and scant benefits leave many in-home workers unable to make ends meet / Heidi Shierholz (pages 238-267); The next frontier: preventing and litigating family responsibilities discrimination / Joan Williams (pages 269-290); Today's schedules for today's workforce: hourly employees and work-life fit / Joan Williams (pages 292-323).
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