In order to catch the full answer, we need to draw on a variety of perspectives in and outside the “work-family” field. The mainstream literature in the work-family field in the United States is both helpful and unhelpful. Rapidly expanding, mildly optimistic, policy-oriented, quantitative, the voluminous research by Ellen Galinsky and Dana Friedman of the […]
День: 11.10.2015
BEHIND THE MISSING CULTURE OF RESISTANCE
In order to catch the full answer, we need to draw on a variety of perspectives in and outside the “work-family” field. The mainstream literature in the work-family field in the United States is both helpful and unhelpful. Rapidly expanding, mildly optimistic, policy-oriented, quantitative, the voluminous research by Ellen Galinsky and Dana Friedman of the […]
What’s the big deal with a miniskirt?
Many women ask, "What’s the big deal with a miniskin, perfume, and a little flining in the workplace?" It would not be a big deal for most men if no one were making a big deal of the man’s response. It is a big deal, though, for the woman — if her goal is to […]
The Myth of Independence
If paid employment does not confer happiness on many mothers, or at best offers no more happiness than they might experience investing their labor at home with their children, it is at least supposed to make them independent. Feminist ideology conveys the popular expectation that liberated women achieve independence through work in the marketplace. Independence […]
The Myth of Independence
If paid employment does not confer happiness on many mothers, or at best offers no more happiness than they might experience investing their labor at home with their children, it is at least supposed to make them independent. Feminist ideology conveys the popular expectation that liberated women achieve independence through work in the marketplace. Independence […]
Female students ‘behaving badly’
The prescriptions of officials, educators and commentators notwithstanding, it is clear that anxiety continued to prevail over the prospect that girls and young women would ‘misunderstand’ the rationale and purposes of women’s schooling so carefully delineated by the former. The increasingly acerbic critical discourse on female students’ dress, behaviour and attitudes after 1912 in the […]
Job Satisfaction
What does it mean to be satisfied with one’s job or occupation? In a general sense, job satisfaction is the positive feeling that results from an appraisal of one’s work. In general, job satisfaction tends to increase gradually with age (Bernal, Snyder, & McDaniel, 1998; Sterns, Marsh, & McDaniel, 1994). The increased satisfaction has been […]
“Your lips toll me ‘no, no/ but there’s ‘yes, yes’ In your eyes»: the politics of Indirect initiatives
Believe it or not, this is still not the core of what bothers most men. What is? First, men still see women playing their old sexual games. And second, men do not see sexual harassment legislation requiring women to take respoas — ibility for their games. For example, the magazine read by the largest number […]
Why sexual harassment legislation feels unfair to men
ITEM 1991. The University of Toronto finds a chemical engineering professor guilty of sexual harassment for “prolonged" staring at a female student at the university swimming pool.’ He was guilty of creating a hostile environment for her. ITEM 1991-2. Graffiti r a high school men’s room which the school neglected to remove resulted in the […]
Why do some women get so upset about pinups at work?
A pinup at work symbolizes to many women that the man cares more about a woman’s body than about a woman’s work. The woman who is serious about work feels she has to deal with a man who wants to combine the two — without regard for her desire. Combining the two doesn’t seem any […]