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This study examined challenges to financial security faced by self-employed women when their earnings are interrupted after childbirth/adoption or for personal or family health reasons. Policy mechanisms that could promote greater economic security for self-employed women were identified. (Completed)
Research project designed to look at barriers, supports and challenges of combining post-secondary education with parenthood. (In progress)
Precarious organizations within this context refer to two categories of organizations; 1) Not for Profit Organizations engaged for the most part in community benefit activities and 2) small and medium sized business. These organizations and the people who depend on them for livelihoods and services are at risk. Organizational risk varies up to and including dissolution, where as human risk would include such issues as loss of livelihood and stress.
The objective of the proposed research is to examine the relations between work life and personal life over time in order to understand how change and time shape the dynamic interplay among the roles in our daily lives (worker, caregiver, friend, etc.)