It may be premature to think that contemporary families are egalitarian because wives are working more and fathers are more involved with children. This research contends that egalitarianism is reflected in gender similarity in missing work to attend to children's needs. Drawing from two national surveys of dual-earner parents, familial factors…

Studies of reactions to nuclear facilities have found consistent male/female differences, but the underlying reasons have never been well-clarified. The most common expectations involve traditional roles--with men focusing more on economic concerns and with women (especially mothers) being more concerned about family safety/health. Still, with…

Determined sex role orientation for high school seniors (N=352). Indicated that adolescents of employed mothers had a more liberal sex role orientation and attitude toward division of household tasks than did adolescents of homemaker mothers. Also indicated that maternal happiness with employment did not affect male and female sex role orientation…

Using data from a U.S. midwestern sample of mothers and fathers, the authors examine whether using workplace flexibility policies alters time spent in housework and child care. They hypothesize that an individual's policy use will lead to more time in domestic labor and that his or her spouse's policy use will lead to less time in domestic labor.…

Explores the relationship between wife's employment, sex-role traditionalism, and reported division of household tasks and decisions. Findings suggest that despite differences among women in sex-role traditionalism and employment status, most women say that they and their spouses divide tasks in a traditional sex-role fashion. (Author)

The author reviews the literature on family and career roles and suggest ways that adult career counselors can use the information. She also presents a framework for counselors to help individuals balance roles. (CH)

Administered the Attitude toward Working Mothers Scale to 526 graduate students. Findings demonstrated the reliability, validity and generalizability of the 32 item scale and suggested that the AWM Scale could be useful in research in maternal employment. (JAC)

Two contrasting predictions regarding the effects of dual- versus single-career marriage on children's sex-role identification were tested: (1) the relative lack of sex-role differentiation in dual-career marriages should promote relatively androgynous sex-role identification in children from such families; and (2) the presence of two…

Urban ninth-grade adolescents' views of maternal employment as a threat to marital happiness were assessed in 1963 and 1973. It was found that adolescents in 1973 felt maternal employment was less threatening than did those in 1963, and this was especially true among female respondents. (Author)

Shows that the mother's being employed and the social status of her job were unrelated to preschool children's sex role differentiation. Reports significant main effects for child's sex and for the relation between sex of child and sex of siblings. (Author/RL)

Discusses ways in which working situations could be changed to increase the role of men in childrearing. Considers present American attitudes, examples from Norway and Sweden, and possible ways of restructuring working situations in the U.S. (SB)

Inspite of the tremendous increase in the burden of market work faced by married American women in the last decade, the differential in household work time between husbands and wives still persists. The results of this study assert that the differences in socioeconomic characteristics between husbands and wives explain only part of that…

Trends in the economic status of women in the United States and their implications for society and women themselves are traced in this publication. The report focuses on women in the work force, including occupation and wage gains relative to men; poverty status; economic consequence of changes in trends related to living arrangements, education,…

In this paper evidence on the causal connection between employment of women and sex-role attitudes is presented and evaluated. The effects of sex-role attitudes on labor force participation are reviewed, and changes in sex-role attitudes during the next fifteen years are projected. Information on the relationship between sex-role attitudes and…

Because of the vital elements of economic life that national accounts often leave out, great skepticism should be attached to the use of GNP as a measure of country's well-being. National accounts in both developed and developing nations consistently overlook and undervalue work done by women, whether in the subsistence sector, the informal labor…