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The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: L-Z
Volume 2 of 2.
Population, Family, and Welfare
Family formation and fertility in practically all European countries has been subject to dramatic changes over the last 20 years. What are the attitudes of Europeans towards current demographic trends? Are new values, goals in life, and everyday needs still compatible with raising children? What policies might influence current population trends? Based on a comparative survey of nine European countries (Austria, Belgium, former Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, The Netherlands, Spain, and Switzerland), this volume provides a new perspective on the impact of population-related social policies by linking them to emerging values, attitudes, and norms in the field of family formation and ...
Shock of Gray
In "Shock of Gray," Ted Fishman explains the astouding economic and political changes we face as our world suddenly grows old.
The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science
Volume 2 of 2.
Running
THE STORY: It's the weekend of the New York City Marathon, and Stephen, preparing for his first race, needs a good night's sleep. Emily, his wife's old roommate, shows up unexpectedly in the wee hours of the morning. In crisis and unable to find a
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Fertility and Family Surveys in Countries of the ECE Region
Partnership & reproductive behaviour patterns have undergone major shifts over much of Europe & North America during the past three decades, leading to the coexistence of a variety of family forms. These country reports shed light on the development in fertility & partnership formation & provides a deeper understanding of the subject by measuring possible explanatory factors.
Gender and Welfare in Mexico
The twentieth-century &“Mexican Miracle,&” which solidified the dominant position of the PRI, has been well documented. A part of the PRI&’s success story that has not hitherto been told is that of the creation of the welfare state, its impact (particularly on the roles of women), and the consequent transformation of Mexican society. A central focus of the PRI&’s welfare policy was to protect women and children. An important by-product of this effort was to provide new opportunities for women of the middle and upper classes to carve out a political role for themselves at a time when they did not yet enjoy suffrage and to participate as social workers, administrators, or volunteers. In Gender and Welfare in Mexico, Nichole Sanders uses archival sources from the Ministry of Health and Welfare and contemporary periodical literature to explain how the creation of the Mexican welfare state was gendered&—and how the process reflected both international and Mexican discourses on gender, the family, and economic development.
