Middle Age Women in the Workforce

Paper Summary:

The paper is an observation analysis as to why we find women in the workforce today. The paper explains the reasons for this phenomena and continues by highlighting how effectiveness and usefulness alters with the progression of age. The paper utilizes a specific example and follows the work cycle as this person increases in age.

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Introduction
Findings/observations
Critical analysis
Conclusion

From the Paper:

"Dolly has worked at the same restaurant for 18 years. Her shift use to be 6-11pm, but she no longer feels comfortable driving home so late so Dolly asked for her shift to be 4-9pm. Dolly also no longer is able to work 5 nights a week like she did for 12 years. Her back became arthritic and the pain of working 5 shifts is too much for her to handle--she asked to be cut down to 4, then 3 and just yesterday she asked for only 2 shifts a week. The other girls she was hired with are still physically able to work their 5 shifts, but have cut back along with Dolly for other reasons such as babysitting grandchildren, no longer need the money, no longer need the social aspect, managers are too young and inexperienced and etc. Physically they are all fine, but a car accident Dolly had in her mid-twenties has caused arthritis in her joints and swelling to some discs in her back between her shoulder blades. Dolly still needs the money--her husband died 8 years ago of a fatal heart attack and financially they were not prepared."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Bookman, Milica. The Third Career: Revisiting the Home vs.Work Choice in Middle Age. New York: Praeger Publishers, 2000.
• Featherman, Daniel, Richard Lerner, and Marion Perlmutter. Life-Span Development and Behavior. Vol. 12. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1992.

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