Housing crisis for older women
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The 'Room for Improvement: The Lack of Affordable, Adaptable And Accessible Housing For Midlife And Older Women' report of the Older Women's League showed that 17% of women homeowners spend 40% of their incomes on housing. In addition, women residents age 65 and over spend 8% of their income on energy costs as opposed to the national average of 5%. Forty-five percent of women in single female households also earn less than $10,000 annually. Furthermore, thenumber of older people living alone is expected to triple by the year 2030, with their personal assistance requirements likely to grow as they age. These results show that existing housing policies threaten older women's ability to maintain their independence in their own homes as they get older. Housing policies must begin including support services to allow older women to stay in their homes instead of having to transfer to institutions.
Publication Name: Journal of Housing
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0272-7374
Year: 1993
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A successful feminist shelter: a case study of the family crisis shelter in Hawaii
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Feminist-run shelters for battered women seek both to provide protection for these women and to empower them with a critique of the society that promotes violence and male domination. Largely because of difficulties in obtaining funding, however, in the U.S. the trend has been for such shelters to be coopted into conventional social service agencies. This article presents a case study of the Family Crisis Shelter in Hawaii, which has retained its feminist program and continues to promote societal change despite its financing by governmental and conventional funding sources. The author attributes this shelter's relative success to its particular empowerment strategy, which primarily depends on staffing by nonprofessional former shelter residents and its policy of providing nonjudgmental support for its residents. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)
Publication Name: Journal of Applied Behavioral Science
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0021-8863
Year: 1988
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Organizational learning in successful East Asian firms: principles, practices, and prospects
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East Asian companies within the electronics industry need to undertake an organizational learning that promotes breakthrough engineering and knowledge exploration. Such objective ensures continued enhancement of organizational performance and competitiveness within the 21st century. East Asian companies also need to undertake organizational learning that will promote transformation from an efficiency-centered to a creativity-propelled mode of competitive stance.
Publication Name: Technological Forecasting & Social Change
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0040-1625
Year: 1998
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