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Lozada, Marlene – Techniques: Making Education and Career Connections, 1997
Reviews family-friendly policies such as flextime, child care referral, job sharing and parental leave; examines how such policies work in postsecondary institutions, corporations, and small businesses; describes curricular approaches to balancing work and family; and lists work and family resource organizations. (SK)
Descriptors: Business Responsibility, Day Care, Employment Practices, Family Life Education
Download full textVanier Inst. of the Family, Ottawa (Ontario). – 1997
This report is intended to increase awareness of the connections between two central spheres of social activity--work and family. Complementing the conventional analyses of the labor force in terms of economic sectors, educational requisites, age and income distribution, the report also presents an analysis of the family circumstances of the…
Descriptors: Family Caregivers, Family Characteristics, Family Financial Resources, Family Income
Goetz, Kathy, Ed. – Family Resource Coalition Report, 1995
The articles in this journal, which is dedicated to the family support field, include such topics as: (1) creating links between family support and early childhood education programs; (2) the challenges facing grandparent caregivers; (3) the problems endemic in social services for infants, toddlers, and their families; (4) the use of the internet…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Family Caregivers, Family Programs, Family School Relationship
Neugebauer, Roger – Child Care Information Exchange, 1996
This seventh annual status report on worksite child care includes information on the fastest growing corporate child care companies, national chains, and independent centers. Data on what the future holds for the corporate climate and national political scene is included. (SD)
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Corporate Support, Corporations, Day Care
Women's Bureau (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1998
As the elderly population continues to grow, more elderly persons are requiring assistance with activities of daily living. Women are the traditional caregivers to the elderly, and the many women who also participate in the paid labor force must face the challenges of meeting both work and family obligations. Types of elder care assistance not…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Caregivers, Employed Women, Employer Employee Relationship
Greenhalgh, Claire – 1995
This report summarizes papers presented and the resulting discussions at a conference focused on key issues emerging from the 1994 United Nations International Year of the Family and how these issues should be reflected in policies for families in Great Britain. The papers addressed the following topics: (1) specific achievements of the United…
Descriptors: Divorce, Economic Factors, Economic Impact, Employed Parents
Bakke-Seeck, Sigvor; And Others – 1997
Because a growing proportion of the world's working population is in the informal sector (in work areas generally outside the sphere of state protection), planners of vocational training for adults must pay closer attention to those concepts of teaching and learning that have relevance for the informal sector, and they must develop strategies for…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Apprenticeships, Basic Skills
