Women’s participation in the labor force has increased substantially over the past half century. In 1930, 10 million women were in the labor force. They represented 24 percent of all working age women and 22 percent of the total work force. By 1955 the number of women workers had doubled, and their labor-force paticipation rate had risen to 36 percent. By 1979 the number had more than quadruple...

TLED 290. Education for the 21st Century. 3 Credits. This course is designed for use with dual enrollment classes that are approved by the Darden College of Education and are using the Teachers for Tomorrow curriculum. The course introduces the historical, philosophical, and sociological foundations and contemporary issues of American public education, and includes the use and analysis of asses...

Article history: Received 21 June 2009 Received in revised form 6 April 2010 Accepted 27 June 2010 Available online 29 July 2010 Rational choice models predict that political competition and political participation have opposite effects on the size of government. We investigate these theories using data from a panel of 18 Latin American countries during the 20th century. Our research builds evi...

in primeval societies, language like all other aspects of life, was dependant on customs and traditions considered holy by people. when the societies changed and lost their natural status, a special type of language was started to develop commensurate with social changes. from the 3rd century, islamic society has witnessed important changes such as increase of wealth, power transfer, emergence ...

Sample reactivity measurements performed at the fast-thermal coupled facilities RRR/SEG (RC Rossendorf) and STEK (ECN Petten) have been re-analyzed using the JNC standard route for reactor calculation JENDL-3.2 // SLAROM / CITATION / PERKY. The C/E-values are compared with results obtained with the competitive European scheme JEF-2.2 // ECCO / ERANOS. When using different input libraries, codes...

In his famous book " Democracy and its Critics " (1989), Robert A. Dahl argues that, historically speaking, there have been two transformations of democracy. These transformations have brought about different models of democratic governance and different interpretations of the concept of democracy. By the fi rst transformation Dahl refers to the the emergence of the classical model of democracy...

I investigate the trend reversal in the labor supply of single childless women that occurred at the turn of the 21st century and its continued decline over the last decade. I find that while traditional static labor supply theory and demographic transitions fall short in explaining this recent phenomenon, there is strong evidence that increased participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assist...