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Title: The Widening Gap: Why American Working Families Are in Jeopardy and What Can Be Done About It
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Heymann, S. Jody |
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The Widening Gap: Why American Working Families Are in Jeopardy and What Can Be Done About It New York, NY: Basic Books, The Perseus Books Group, 2000 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Perseus Books Group Keyword(s): Maternal Employment; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT); School Completion; Shift Workers Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Examines the growing gap between the child and elder care needs of families and the resources that they have to meet these responsibilities. Principal data sources include the Urban Working Families Study, the Daily Diaries Study, the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, and the Survey of Midlife in the United States. Together, the studies utilize interviews with more than 7,500 caregivers to explore how Americans of all ages are working while addressing the health, educational, and urgent-care needs of children, older parents, and other adults. Results focus on the unpredictable lives of working adults, the impact of outdated working conditions and inadequate social supports on children, the impact on extended families, the magnification of economic inequalities, and gender inequalities in child and elder care. Case studies are used to illustrate the findings. References are included. Appendixes provide additional information on the data sources and results. (MM) (AgeLine Database, copyright 2003 AARP, all rights reserved) |
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Heymann, S. Jody. The Widening Gap: Why American Working Families Are in Jeopardy and What Can Be Done About It. New York, NY: Basic Books, The Perseus Books Group, 2000. |