Multivariate analysis of survey data from 390 Seattle couples reveals that husbands' work time did not significantly decrease their participation in the housekeeper and therapeutic roles, nor their competence in the housekeeper, therapeutic, sexual, and recreation roles. (Author)

College women believe both the maternal role and the career role provide a variety of rewards. Though the marital and emotional costs of each role are recognized, college women do not hold a realistic impression of the role conflict and strain connected with the career role. (PS)

Sources of marital power are examined and are found to affect the power distribution. Data points to the conclusion that the differences in marital power are not due to individual resources or personal competence of the partners, but to the discrimination against women in the larger society. (Author)

While professional women may experience their "dual careers" at home and at work as a source of inner fragmentation, this fragmentation can be a vehicle for developing a greater sense of personhood. Recent data show that women who combine work, marriage, and motherhood are experiencing more general psychological well being than are other women.…

Surveyed adults who were parents of preschool children and employed in dual-earner families. Found that adults' high commitment to roles was not associated with psychological well-being; diverse sources of support for women were linked with their psychological states; and men's well-being was responsive to wives' support. (BC)

Examines the relationship between the gender role attitudes and the life expectations of 272 college undergraduates (80.1 percent female; 19.9 percent male). Findings point to a lack of awareness on the part of both sexes of the complexity of combining work and family responsibilities. (FMW)

Interest in the transition to parenthood has been sustained at a remarkably high level ever since LeMasters did his pioneering study in 1957. His study was interesting theoretically from the standpoint of both the family development perspective as well as Simmel's classic proposition that the triad is inherently the most unstable of human groups.…

Currently, roles are changing for men and women and the combination of work and family roles is a challenge to many young people. High school students' life plans and the relationship of some antecedent factors to homemaking and career commitment were explored. Subjects (N=854), 9th and 12th grade students, completed questionnaires containing…

The perceptions of a group of university faculty women about their work loads were studied. Respondents were asked about their responsibilities at home, about the time they spend on their professions, their households, and their families. They were also asked to judge whether and to what extent they feel overworked and about their attitudes toward…