Education predicts a great deal about a woman's life, not only her earnings and benefits, but attitudes towards her life and the vision she has for the future. Women bring to work what the workplace needs, but they are not getting what they need in return. Women are very concerned about employers providing fewer benefits and about the difficulty of integrating work and family life. Furthermore, working fewer hours, which both men and women would prefer to do, reduces the likelihood of having the benefits families need. Women overwhelmingly feel that the current debate about family values should focus on valuing families of all types and the way people behave toward each other, not the structure of the families they live in.
Women call for a more caring society.
In contrast to the harshness and mean-spiritedness they see around them, women believe that people caring about each other is the pivotal first step to solving society's problems. An Acrobat Reader is required. If you need one, contact the Adobe web site to download a free viewer.