Women in academia navigate multiple professional and personal roles, and may face unique challenges to integrate their intellectual, emotional, physical, and spiritual selves. The narrative of constraint underscores the disadvantages, challenges, and inequities that women who are mothers and academics face in their lives. This lack of privilege…

The purpose of this study was to understand the experiences of women who have children and work in mid-level student affairs positions. The study of this phenomenon was driven by four problems: (a) women face barriers in rising to upper-level leadership positions, (b) women are more likely than men to leave the field of student affairs, (c) there…

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)

In spite of general concern about the impact on women's mental health of multiple roles, most studies have examined only the impact of individual roles. This study examined the relationship between multiple-role occupancy and quality and psychological distress in a disproportionate random sample of employed female health care workers (N=403).…

Discusses double role of women as mothers and contributing citizens of society. Emphasizes need for day care centers to free older girls and women for education and employment. (MS)

This project investigated attitudes of entering freshmen college women in an attempt to learn whether traditional sex-role ideologies were still predominant, and what the career and educational aspiration levels of these young women were. The variables most concerning the authors were career salience, educational and career aspirations, opinions…

Presents a model of role conflict coping behavior that is based on three levels in the role process: structural role definition, personal role redefinition, and reactive role behavior. Using the results of a survey of college educated women, 16 behavioral strategies are identified and classified. The relationship between coping behavior and…

Examined relations between patterns of commitment to work and parenting and role strain among 102 middle-class fathers and 194 mothers. For fathers of preschoolers in dual-earner marriages, pattern of low work-high parental commitment was associated with least role strain. Relations between commitment patterns and role strain were conditioned by…

Responds to previous article in which O'Neil and Greenberger examined relations between patterns of commitment to work and to parenting and level of role strain in parents of preschool-age children. Discusses conceptual/theoretical issues and measurement issues raised in O'Neil and Greenberger and considers what their findings mean. (NB)

Responds to previous article in which Marks critiques authors' article examining relations between patterns of commitment to work and to parenting and level of role strain in parents of preschool-age children. Responds to criticisms by Marks, considering both theoretical and methodological issues. (NB)

Previous research on the relationship between workplace stressors and physical health symptoms in men has generated such important insights as the importance of job demand or overload to physical health. However, research on women, work and health raises several necessary additions to the paradigm: (1) a focus on the positive aspects of the…

Research into the experiential determinants of stress-related health measures has progressed dramatically in the last 10 years. Examination of the relationship between life events and psychological distress has been redirected from an early emphasis on major life events to a focus on minor events, i.e., the positive and negative happenings in…

Examined alternative models of how women combine perceptions of role conflict and enhancement. Data from 158 married women college professors and middle-level managers, each with preschool child, supported role perception typology model over continuum model. Women experiencing high enhancement and low conflict scored highest on mental health and…

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.…

One of the dramatic changes in the North American family over the past 25 years has been the increase in women with young children working outside the home. This paper addresses cognitive factors related to maternal employment during the transitions to parenthood, factors related to different post-partum occupational profiles and the degree to…