Word: job
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...brought together 95 participants in seminars designed to provide skills for advancing in higher education and for performing better in a current job, Levine says...
...role in that Shakespearean drama caused something of an uproar at CBS, when, shortly after leaving Nixon in 1978, she was given a reporter's job by Washington bureau chief William Small. Several correspondents, including Rather, openly expressed opposition to her hiring. "Conversations would stop as I entered the room," she recalls...
Many Alaskans were outraged last week when a leaked Exxon memo suggested that the company might walk away from the job after work halts for the winter on Sept. 15. But in testimony before a House subcommittee, W.D. Stevens, president of Exxon's U.S. operations, said the company would comply with any "reasonable request" from the Coast Guard to resume the cleanup next spring...
...result, says Hochschild, is that most wives among the 50 two-job couples she interviewed drive home from the office while plotting domestic schedules and playdates for the children, and then work a second shift. Recent national studies she surveyed concluded that women spend 15 fewer hours at leisure each week than their husbands. In a year they work an extra month of 24-hour days. Hochschild's couples were fraying at the edges, and so were their careers and their marriages. She notes that the women did not much resemble, in their mind's-eye views of themselves...
Hochschild thinks "pro-family" legislation is needed, not to promote school prayers and cut off birth-control funds, as in the cant of the Reagan years, but to equalize women's wages and provide family leave for both sexes. Tax breaks would go to firms that allow job sharing and flextime, and to developers who build affordable housing with communal meal-preparation facilities. (A problem she does not mention is that many employers do encourage part-time work, often as a way to avoid paying for medical insurance and other benefits.) Using the phrase of another sociologist, the author calls...