Pretendemos en este libro seguir la historia de las profesiones en México. Entendemos por profesión, la posesión de conocimientos científicos, humanísticos o artísticos especializados, adquiridos por medio de un estudio formal acreditado de alguna manera y cuyo ejercicio se hace a cambio de alguna remuneración. Este estudio se inicia con los antecedentes coloniales. No siempre han existido las mismas profesiones, ni se han concebido...

How has social work developed into a scientifically sound practice and how will social work continue to develop as a profession in the future? With this publication, the author for the first time presents a comprehensive reconstruction and socio-historical analysis of the development of social work as a profession in Germany. The sociologically (professionally) sound presentation structures the discourses in the literature on social work in a detailed...

Photographs and simple text show the many ways in which work can be accomplished.

"Occupational licensure, including regulation of the professions, dates back to the medieval period. While the guilds that performed this regulatory function have long since vanished, professional regulation continues to this day. For instance, in the United States, 22 percent of American workers must hold licenses simply to do their jobs. While long-established professions have more settled regulatory paradigms, Paradoxes of Professional Regulation...

Introduces important women in literary history, including Maya Angelou, Emily Dickinson, and Roxane Gay. This book introduces readers to dozens of women who have made groundbreaking contributions in literary fiction, genre fiction, science fiction, nonfiction and memoir, feminist writing, poetry, and young adult literature. Features include essential facts, a timeline, a glossary, additional resources, source notes, and an index.

Engineering in Germany continues to be a male domain, although efforts have been made for years to balance the gender ratio in these areas. The author explores the question of whether and to what extent the asymmetrical gender ratio is based on the content and cultures of engineering itself. On the basis of interviews with engineers, various key concepts are identified that contribute to maintaining the binary, heteronormative gender relationship...

Four very different women, Clare, Elizabeth, Karen, and Julia, support each other through the joys and sorrows of their lives when they meet each week for breakfast at the Mocha Moments Cafe.

"During a turbulent colonial and postcolonial century, African women struggled to control their own marital, sexual and economic lives and to gain a significant voice in local and national politics. This book introduces many remarkable women, who organized religious and political movements, fought in anti-colonial wars, ran away to escape arranged marriages, and during the 1990s began successful campaigns for gender parity in national legislatures....