Publication Date
| In 2025 | 0 |
| Since 2024 | 0 |
| Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 0 |
| Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 0 |
| Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 2 |
Descriptor
| Employed Parents | 6 |
| Income | 6 |
| Marital Status | 6 |
| Females | 4 |
| Children | 3 |
| Employment Level | 3 |
| Employment Patterns | 3 |
| Hispanic Americans | 3 |
| Males | 3 |
| Occupations | 3 |
| One Parent Family | 3 |
| More ▼ | |
Author
| Johnson, Beverly L. | 2 |
| Dababnah, Sarah | 1 |
| Goulden, Marc | 1 |
| Lighter, Jessica R. | 1 |
| Mason, Mary Ann | 1 |
| Mayra, Ellen Tracy | 1 |
| Parish, Susan L. | 1 |
| Rose, Roderick A. | 1 |
| Swaine, Jamie G. | 1 |
| Wolfinger, Nicholas H. | 1 |
Publication Type
| Reports - Research | 4 |
| Journal Articles | 2 |
| Numerical/Quantitative Data | 2 |
| Collected Works - Serials | 1 |
| Reports - Evaluative | 1 |
| Speeches/Meeting Papers | 1 |
Education Level
Audience
Location
| New York | 1 |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Peer reviewed
Direct linkParish, Susan L.; Rose, Roderick A.; Swaine, Jamie G.; Dababnah, Sarah; Mayra, Ellen Tracy – American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2012
Understanding the financial well-being of single mothers who care for children with developmental disabilities is important to ensure that public policies can be effectively targeted to support these vulnerable families. The authors analyze data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation to describe income poverty, asset poverty, income,…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Income, Poverty, Mothers
Wolfinger, Nicholas H.; Goulden, Marc; Mason, Mary Ann – Journal of Family Issues, 2010
The authors use data from the 2000 Census Public Use Microdata Sample to examine the likelihood of a birth event, defined as the household presence of a child younger than 2 years, for male and female professionals. Physicians have the highest rate of birth events, followed in order by attorneys and academics. Within each profession men have more…
Descriptors: Females, Physicians, Employed Parents, Males
Download full textWomen's Bureau (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1989
In 1988, 65% of mothers with children under the age of 18 were in the labor force. Regardless of marital status, mothers are very active in the labor force and contribute significantly to family income. On average, female-headed households earned 56% of the amount married-couple families earn. Families maintained by women represented 52% of all…
Descriptors: Black Mothers, Children, Day Care, Early Parenthood
Johnson, Beverly L. – 1981
The rising number of multi-earner families has been one of the most important socioeconomic developments of the 1970s; since 1970, the number of such families has increased by more than 3 million. Almost exclusively responsible for the rising number of multi-earner families have been the steep annual increases in the number and proportion of…
Descriptors: Blacks, Children, Employed Parents, Employed Women
Johnson, Beverly L. – Monthly Labor Review, 1979
The proportion of women in the labor force continued to grow during 1970-1978; more women headed families and worked despite the presence of children, according to the summary preceding the twenty-three tables which constitute the bulk of this report. Other findings summarized from the statistics are as follows. By 1978, a record 47.7 percent of…
Descriptors: Blacks, Children, Employed Parents, Employed Women
Lighter, Jessica R.; And Others – 1981
A study examined the effects of maternal employment status and a series of intrafamilial variables on the career orientation of adolescent females and on their attitudes toward working mothers. The Career Orientation Scale (COS), a researcher-developer scale designed to measure the extent to which work is viewed as central to the female…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age, Attitudes, Career Education
