Empowering Women in the Workplace

Empowering Women in the Workplace details a cross-section of current concerns regarding women in the workplace which are relevant to employee assistance professionals and other human service professionals. Women researchers, academicians, and employee assistance professionals have compiled their current concerns of working women. The book illuminates these dilemmas and how far away equity in the work role is, while avoiding stereotypical conclusions by presenting exploratory and descriptive data in areas too infrequently investigated. Each chapter contains themes on economic disparity, stress and role strain, victimization and the silence that seeks to hide it, cultural ignorance or avoidance of women's and families' needs, and strong, powerful hopes for the future.