The growing number of working mothers, dual career couples, and working single parents raises concerns about the impact of work stress on family lifestyles and their ability to balance work and family obligations. The aim of this study is to examine the role of social workers in promoting work-life balance among working mothers at the University…

This longitudinal study explores the relationships between glass ceiling beliefs (i.e. denial, resilience, resignation, and acceptance) and the outcomes of work commitment and work turnover intention, mediated via work engagement, across two time waves. Using data collected from 400 women employees (mean age = 36.67 years) from the banking sector…

Purpose: This paper aims to understand women's careers better in order to help organizations make changes to increase female retention. Two specific questions are addressed: Are women adopting a protean career orientation by becoming career self-agents?; and Are women's career decisions guided by the kaleidoscope values of challenge, balance, and…

Objective: An examination of the frequency and impact of workplace sexual harassment on work, health, and school outcomes on high school girls is presented in two parts. The first compares the frequency of harassment in this sample (52%) to published research on adult women that used the same measure of sexual harassment. The second part compares…

American newspaperwomen generally express positive job attitudes, though tempered by their perceptions of inequities. Both intrinsic and extrinsic factors contribute to job satisfaction. (FL)

Blacks, unmarried or young women, or those with low job status are most likely to be targets of harassment. Harassment adversely affects feelings toward coworkers and supervisors, self-esteem, and life satisfaction, but not job satisfaction, aspirations, or feelings of job competence. (Author/SK)

A study explored the perceptions and attitudes that 96 Wisconsin women (age range 18-95; average age 34) held toward leisure. Subjects were interviewed personally by members of a University of Wisconsin (Madison) class on "Women and Leisure," using parts of the Leisure Attitudes Inventory concerning three factors: society's role in…

Evaluates work and nonwork variables in job satisfaction of married working women. Women's job satisfaction was found to be related to such variables as life satisfaction, age, and importance of job income but unrelated to race, educational level, occupational prestige, income level, and attitude toward women working. (Author/MT)

When they were in their early twenties, women in the National Longitudinal Surveys' sample underestimated their future work involvement. Expectations for working at age 35 gradually increased. Plans for working were significant independent predictors of actual work behavior and planning to work yielded a significant wage advantage. (CH)

Describes the choices, barriers, and experiences of women employed in and seeking employment in nontraditional occupations, based on a survey of 75 women. Results indicated the women held strong views of sex role equality, and named money and benefits as the most common reason for pursuing nontraditional careers. (JAC)

Investigated factors influencing job satisfaction of 217 women working in 51 nontraditional occupations. Explored the occupational unique experiences confronted by women in nontraditional occupations. Identified job location, job awareness and changes, work and family roles, income and earnings, and preparation for a job as important…

Examined whether early divorce would affect job satisfaction of professional or clerical/technical women (N=88) working in hospitals and explored differences among married, divorced, and single working women in their perceptions of different areas of their work. Results revealed significant positive relationship between job level and job…

Examines the work roles of Israeli village women at home and in the fields, the effects of technological change, and sex stereotypes related to technological aptitude. Suggests that the crucial variable influencing gender differentiation in work roles is technology itself rather that its context of application. (SV)

Since married women typically curtail their employment behavior to accommodate the needs of their family, it is often assumed that women have a relatively weak and unstable work commitment. However, it is erroneous to infer work commitment from behavior, since work behavior is motivated and constrained by a myriad of personal and social…

Investigates the strategies by which corporations adapt to social and cultural change. Argues that the contradiction between the ideology of the nuclear family and women's real needs for economic sustenance and autonomy are separated and deflected into a specific discursive strategy in the operation of Mary Kay Cosmetics. (JD)