Robert Cherry and Robert Lerman
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814717189
- eISBN:
- 9780814769904
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814717189.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics
This chapter argues that child care support does not simply enable women to maintain employment, it also makes it sensible for many working mothers to enroll in job training and educational programs ...
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This chapter argues that child care support does not simply enable women to maintain employment, it also makes it sensible for many working mothers to enroll in job training and educational programs that enable them to enhance their careers. For many, child care support is the only way they can sustain the additional hours associated with working in many traditional male-dominated occupations. As working mothers' pay increases, they gain less from government-subsidized child care. For these mothers, improved child-related federal and state tax benefits can substantially reduce the costs of child care. The chapter shows how Workforce Investment Act (WIA) training programs help increase female access to male-dominated occupations rather than continue to direct women into traditional female occupations. Training programs should also be made available to working mothers who want to enhance their skills, rather than being reserved solely for the underemployed and unemployed.Less
This chapter argues that child care support does not simply enable women to maintain employment, it also makes it sensible for many working mothers to enroll in job training and educational programs that enable them to enhance their careers. For many, child care support is the only way they can sustain the additional hours associated with working in many traditional male-dominated occupations. As working mothers' pay increases, they gain less from government-subsidized child care. For these mothers, improved child-related federal and state tax benefits can substantially reduce the costs of child care. The chapter shows how Workforce Investment Act (WIA) training programs help increase female access to male-dominated occupations rather than continue to direct women into traditional female occupations. Training programs should also be made available to working mothers who want to enhance their skills, rather than being reserved solely for the underemployed and unemployed.
Jordynn Jack
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252038372
- eISBN:
- 9780252096259
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252038372.003.0003
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gender Studies
This chapter deals with individuals' performance of gendered characters in more recent debates about vaccines and autism. Mothers engaged in these debates perform traditional feminine characters in ...
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This chapter deals with individuals' performance of gendered characters in more recent debates about vaccines and autism. Mothers engaged in these debates perform traditional feminine characters in order to claim epistemic authority over their children's diagnosis and treatment and to argue against the scientific establishment, using character as an element of conformation, or as support for a cause. Thus, mothers who actively argue for increased research funding or for specific theories of autism's etiology draw on topoi of experiential knowledge, caregiving, and maternal instinct, sometimes embracing the character of mother warrior or autism mother. They are countered by experts, most often males, who take on the character of the good doctor or father figure to argue against the vaccine theory.Less
This chapter deals with individuals' performance of gendered characters in more recent debates about vaccines and autism. Mothers engaged in these debates perform traditional feminine characters in order to claim epistemic authority over their children's diagnosis and treatment and to argue against the scientific establishment, using character as an element of conformation, or as support for a cause. Thus, mothers who actively argue for increased research funding or for specific theories of autism's etiology draw on topoi of experiential knowledge, caregiving, and maternal instinct, sometimes embracing the character of mother warrior or autism mother. They are countered by experts, most often males, who take on the character of the good doctor or father figure to argue against the vaccine theory.
