The United Nation's Sustainable Development Goal 8 (SDG8) emphasizes decent work and the need to generate employment for vulnerable groups such as women, youth, and low-income rural and urban residents. Though extended retirement age policies to sustain workforce productivity are promulgated across OECD states, within SDG8 there is no evident…

Discusses the reentry of professional women who interrupt their careers to devote full time to their families. This issue is considered as it affects women across careers and as it relates to librarians. Proposals to meet the needs of reentry workers are offered, including training, work options such as flexible hours, and career development. (13…

The United States is mobile society, and mobility is evident in the jobs people hold. From one year to the next, almost 1 worker in 5 enters or returns to an occupation that he/she did not work in 12 months earlier. A worker's age, sex, race, and ethnicity influence likelihood of changing occupations. (Contains detailed data tables.) (JOW)

The unemployed are a varied group; being unemployed may be related more to individual circumstances than the overall state of the economy. The unemployed are discussed in terms of job-losers, job-leavers, new entrants (job searching for the first time), reentrants, age groups, minority groups, and the discouraged worker. (SR)

Community-based organizations provide special services and opportunities to women training for nontraditional occupations. (JOW)

The real retraining of the American work force will not come about through massive, federally operated job training programs. It will come about only when employers are able to look forward to a promising economic future that requires highly trained and motivated employees and that offers real jobs. (Author/SSH)

Describes learned helplessness and its effect on ability of displaced homemakers to enter or reenter the work force successfully. Suggests that success in making transition from homemaker to worker may depend on attributions women provide for their failed or ended marriages. Discusses ways in which counselors may assist displaced homemakers in…

Includes "High-priced Slot in the World of Work" (Zhang); "From the 'Strategies' of Nairobi to the 'Platform' of Beijing"; "Out of the Shadows toward Global Recognition" (Mehra-Kerpelman): "Returning to Work: A Challenge for Women" (Klein); "Women at the ILO (International Labour Organisation)";…

Many older adults are not ready to retire from life. What they choose to do will be affected by legislation, economic and social needs, personal ambitions, previous experiences, and perhaps a willingness to pursue further training or education. (CT)

Includes "Skills Training for Women" (Dabney), a description of a program for displaced homemakers and single parents in Oklahoma that provides job training and support to reentry women; and "Celebrating Women's Technological Contributions" (Pierce), a unit to encourage students to look at women's technological accomplishments.…

The workplace is slowly adopting supportive work structures and benefit programs to make it more feasible for women to combine work and family. (JOW)

AFDC Welfare work strategies have been implemented to help AFDC (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) recipients secure unsubsidized employment. Reviews research on employment programs for AFDC clients and highlights the respective advantages of these programs. Suggests program changes to improve welfare work strategies. (Author/ABB)

A study examined the factors influencing the participation in the labor market of 150 women with young children, including their aims, training needs, and constraints. Their self-perceived employment needs were related to the policies and practices of employers and trade unions. (JOW)

This update discusses the "Reentry National Media Outreach Campaign," a project of the Annie E. Casey Foundation that exists to bring the issues of prisoner reentry to greater public awareness. The U.S. Department of Education has been charged with administering the "Life Skills for State and Local Prisoners Program," a discretionary grant program…

Case studies illuminate the psychosocial characteristics of special populations of reentry women, the barriers they face, and their unique needs. (JOW)