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Social workers, old women and female carers: feminist reflections on the relevance of gender
- Author:
- REES Catherine
- Publisher:
- University of East Anglia
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 39p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Norwich
Puts gender issues in the context of social work as a whole and goes on to focus on experiences and perceptions of residential care and professional support received. Focuses on what should be the ideal professional response to gender issues, and constraints on this response.
Women's issues in social policy
- Editors:
- MACLEAN Mavis, GROVES Dulcie
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 247p.tables,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Collection of papers written from a feminist perspective. Issues looked at include women and poverty, women and transport, women and old age, and women and community care. Also contains a chapter reviewing recent debates about child care.
National Carers Survey: care to work; eldercare, adultcare, childcare: vol. 1 survey report
- Author:
- OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN
- Publisher:
- Opportunities for Women
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 192p.,diags.
- Place of publication:
- London
Volume 1 of a survey that aims to show how women and men combine employment with caring responsibilities for children, elderly people and people with disabilities. Also looks at the role of government, and carer support schemes in the workplace, including nurseries, carer leave schemes, and flexitime, as well as asking respondents what they would like from their employers. Volume 2 contains comments from participants in the survey.