A look backward and forward at American professional women and their families
By: edited by Rita J. Simon
Contributors: Simon, Rita James
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
Subjects: Working mothers -- United States -- Congresses; Work and family -- United States -- Congresses; Women in the professions -- United States -- Congresses; Businesswomen -- United States -- Congresses; Women soldiers -- United States -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: Includes bibliographical references
Table of contents: title: Pt. I. The American family. Transition: from the Senate to the House / Marilyn J. Mangan ; Home-schooling in the 90's / Katherine A. Kersten ; Counter-cultural womanhood or why I am not a feminist / Jennifer Roback Morse ; Joint custody of children / Ronald K. Henry ; Men, family and fatherhood / Wade F. Horn ; Myths and obstacles that keep men from their families / Armin Brott.; title: Pt. II Women in business. Women entrepreneurs / Louise Woener ; Wmen's enterprise: the coming of age / Judi Schindler ; Life of a start up / Deborah Mancini ; Directing a Non-profit Organization / Frances B. Smith.; title: Pt. III. Women in the military. There then, where now?: military women in the 21st century / Lorry M. Fenner ; So what about the women?/ Barbara M. Lee ; Women in the Navy / Linda L. Heid ; As we turn: army women in the 21st century / Marie E. deYoung.; title: Pt. IV. Women in professional life. Women partners in large law firms / Anne Kimball ; Lawyers in government service / Judith Simon Garrett ; A look back at women in academia / Rita J. Simon ; Women pediatricians in the 1960's / Ilsw Lewy ; Nursing practice in hospitals from the 1950's to the 1970s / Elizabeth T. Carey ; The women journalist / Mary Lou Forbes ; A women reporter in the 1990's / Laurie Goodstein