Recent predictions suggest that because of the increase in the number of women acquiring gainful employment, work in the home should be divided in more egalitarian ways. Recent research, however, has shown that traditional male tasks were more likely to be shared than were traditional female tasks. This study investigated further the…

The study discussed in this paper investigated the problems that women in educational administration face as they try to balance career and home responsibilities. A survey was taken of 335 women administrators in 56 public colleges and universities in 5 southern states. Twenty women of the 8 percent who responded were interviewed. Results showed…

The author documents differences between the job-related networks of women and men in a sample of 186 recent white-collar job changers. Results indicate that women know persons in fewer occupations than do men; their networks are negatively affected by having young children and by their spouses' mobility. (Author/CH)

Analyzed the relationship between the participation of married women in the labor market and divorce rates in the continental states of the United States in 1980. Results showed the higher the proportion of married women working full time and the lower the proportion of married women working part time, the higher the divorce rate of the state.…

Compared maturation rate and endocrine functioning according to career typicalness in 28 employed women. Results provided only limited evidence that women in nontraditional careers matured later than women in traditional careers. Found subjects in traditional categories married and had children at earlier age than did subjects in nontraditional…

Examined factors that affect Honduran women's market sector participation and participation's impact on family level of living. Found differences between Honduran women in informal sector and in the formal sector, with women in the formal sector being younger and more likely to be married. Participation in either sector raised level of living for…

Determined if factors descriptive of work-family role integration would be more predictive of rural employed mothers' life satisfaction than that of urban employed mothers (N=237). Results supported the greater importance of variables descriptive of work-family role integration in predicting the life satisfaction of rural employed mothers.…

Examines the relationship between student misbehavior and academic achievement. Findings indicate that sophomores with low grades are more likely to misbehave when they are seniors. Misbehavior has negative effects on grades and achievement test scores. Living in a single-parent family and mother's employment also negatively affect achievement and…

The analysis of interviews with a sample of Chicago-area women aged 25 to 54 demonstrated that, for the most part, they tend to evaluate their jobs as containing greater job complexity than does "an average job" and to be pleased by this fact. (CT)

Reports the results of testing a microeconomic model of the effects of fringe benefits on labor mobility. Results indicate that the probability of worker mobility drops 20 percent when a pension promise is made to male workers. Females' response is somewhat less. Other fringes affect turnover less strongly. (CT)

New data from the Current Population Survey indicate that women have fewer years in their current occupations than men, a factor which affects the earnings disparity. (Author)

Analyzed data from 100 intensive interviews with Chicano married couples. Several variables were analyzed to determine whether they had any correlation with the type of conjugal role structure a couple had. The factor having the strongest impact was whether or not the wife was employed outside the home. (Author)

Time data indicate that, even when employed outside the home, wives still spend more time in household production than other family members. Wives spent less time in dishwashing and care of clothing activities, while children spent more time shopping, in 1977 than in 1967. (Author/CT)

Findings of this research indicate that it was the absolute amount of family income, not its sources, that had the most influence on both 1967 and 1972 net worth for the total sample. Wife's earnings may have made an important contribution to family net worth position. (CT)

This model emphasizes the distinction between male and female earnings and the distinction between families with employed wives and those without as they affect the fertility rate. (Author/IRT)