In recent years, female attachment to the labor force has increased dramatically, particularly for women of childbearing age. This trend has reflected demographic factors and also fundamental changes in how women's roles are viewed in our society. It has not, however, affected black and white women equally. (Author/GC)

Efforts to explain the harassment of women in the work place have focused on sex role socialization and cultural norms conditioning men to be dominant and initiators of sexual interactions. New work relationships, however, may bring new value to intimacy which may be differentiated from dominance gestures. To test the relationship of intimacy and…

The article examines gross migration of households between nonmetropolitan and metropolitan areas, as well as the corresponding counterstream, from 1965 to 1970. Using data from the 15 percent sample of the 1970 census, gross migration flows and rates are estimated and cross-classified by race, age, and marital status. (Author/NQ)

Change in family structure over a 17-month period in a sample of 123 low-income urban and rural Wisconsin mothers who gave birth in 1974 is examined. Mother's age, education, and poverty status were characteristics most strongly related to household composition changes. (Author)

The aim of this study is to analyse the primary school teachers' perception of organizational health in terms of different variables. The sampling of the study is comprised of 385 primary school teachers who attended a course in Aksaray and Esenkoy in-service training centers. The Organizational Health Inventory (OHI-S), which was developed by Hoy…

Students whose reading achievement was average, below average, and above average were compared on measures of educational and occupational background, family characteristics, and elementary school performance prior to grade 6. Results were analyzed separately by sex, race (Negro and Caucasian), both sexes and races combined, and upper and lower…

Examining the impact on women's employment of the changing family structure, the authors found (1) a decline in the effect of marital status on women's employment; (2) no decline in the effect of child status; and (3) a more complex relationship between race and employment status. (SK)

Uses elderly adults' median chronological age with marital status to examine how elderly adults view their reading needs as they pertain to reading skills, reading preferences, emotional awareness, and physical capabilities. Finds differences in the reading perceptions of elderly adults. (SR)

A study was made of the experiences of motherhood of 835 mothers with children 2 to 6 years of age from 4 different ethnic/language groups. Age, educational level, socioeconomic status, and marital status of the mothers were compared with the emotional state of the mothers and the interaction between mother and child. (TJQ)

This report focuses on individual financial support networks which supplement the incomes of persons who live in different households. It introduces a new data set from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP). Information was collected in a supplement to the SIPP conducted between January and April 1985 in about 17,000 households.…

The sex-role attitudes of 910 once-married females, aged 40-44, were examined to ascertain their support for traditional as opposed to modern sex-role orientations. In addition, 5 variables (education, employment status, residence, age at marriage, and number of children) hypothesized to influence these attitudes were tested by analysis of…

To followup an earlier study of the relative importance of age, education, and marital status as variables influencing female participation in the labor force, this research attempts to measure the relative importance of similar factors in determining whether or not a woman works or wishes to work. Particular emphasis was given to such…

It is of interest from time to time to make studies or have studies made of the various ranks of the superintendency. One type of the superintendency, which is all in all the oldest and is found in every State, is the county superintendent of schools. He exists in more than 3,300 places. The return accompanying this blank was able to get a line on…

Discusses the presentation of married, formerly married, and single male and female characters in prime time television dramas, specifically in relation to sexual stereotyping, occupational status, and regularly-emphasized personality traits. A brief review of similar research is given and the method of the study is summarized. (JL)

Complete data on the basic demographic characteristics of the inhabitants of the United States from the 1980 Census of Population are presented in this report. Eleven pages of maps and charts show information on various geographical regions of the United States (regions, divisions, standard metropolitan statistical areas, standard consolidated…