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Work, Family and Social Policy in the United States -Implications for Women's Wages and Wellbeing.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Work, Family and Social Policy in the United States -Implications for Women's Wages and Wellbeing./
Author:	Pal, Ipshita.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2016,
Description:	157 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-09(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International77-09A(E).
Subject:	Public policy. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10108129
ISBN:	9781339715049

Work, Family and Social Policy in the United States -Implications for Women's Wages and Wellbeing.
Pal, Ipshita.

Work, Family and Social Policy in the United States -Implications for Women's Wages and Wellbeing. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2016 - 157 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-09(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 2016.

Raising children and taking care of family members, while maintaining a job, and without compromising on economic security, career progression or one's health and wellbeing, is a difficult task anywhere. In the United States, it comes with a set of additional challenges because of a complete absence or limited reach of supporting work-family policies -- policies that are designed specifically to help people manage and reconcile their roles as workers and parents or caregivers -- such as paid and job-protected parental leave, publicly provided or subsidized child care, rights to request workplace flexibility or part time work and paid leave to attend to ill or disabled family members. Consequently, workers in the US rely heavily on employer generosity, informal family support, and a patchwork of provisions available from various levels of government and with varying degrees of restrictive eligibility criteria. Researchers have repeatedly pointed to the important role of this duality -- major changes in women's work and family roles against a system of unresponsive social policies -- in explaining important markers of women's progress or paradoxes therein, such as a plateauing of labor force participation rates even as they continued to grow in comparable labor markets, existence of a comparatively higher wage penalty for having children compared to other high income countries and declining subjective wellbeing over a period that saw increasing economic empowerment for women as well as a shift in women's relationship with employment, with more and more of them considering work to be a fundamental aspect of life satisfaction. In my dissertation, I build on these lines of enquiry to study how such substantial changes in work and family lives, juxtaposed against a comparatively stagnant system of supportive work-family policies, translate into mothers' performance in the US labor market as well as their subjective wellbeing by family and employment status and what, if any, is the effect of small but important state level policy shifts.

ISBN: 9781339715049Subjects--Topical Terms:

532803
Public policy.

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