Rural Families and Work-Family Issues
Author(s):
- Lisa R. Pruitt
Document type: Encyclopedia Entry
Appears in: Work and Family Encyclopedia
Year: 2008
Topic:
- Community
- Family
- Gender
- Low Wage Workers
- Work and Family
Discipline:
- Law
Abstract:
Rural families experience considerable and distinct challenges in relationship to work-family issues. Human capital deficits, substandard childcare and transportation infrastructure, and limited economic diversity result in rural work contexts that are quite different from those experienced by urban families. In recent decades, economic restructuring has had a significant impact on rural families.