The dependence of married women upon men for their achievement of social status is examined. Results indicate that both husbands and wives appear to pay rather little attention to the attainments of wives when evaluating their own social status. However, a status-sharing model is not totally ruled out. (Author)

Used data from Panel Study of Income Dynamics to investigate process by which spouses allocate their labor between employment and housework. Findings indicated that both women's market and domestic labor were highly sensitive to family economy, whereas men's market labor was subject to macroeconomic structure and men's domestic labor was little…

Studies were conducted with samples of students from four universities to determine if male-female differences in motivation to manage existed. Although differences were not found among students majoring in education, females in business administration and the liberal arts did prove to have lower managerial motivation scores than male samples.…

Women in four high-status, male-dominated professions-architecture, law, medicine, and psychology-are described in terms of a variety of historical, social, and career variables. (Author)

This paper is based on a survey that looks at destinations of females after they reach statutory school leaving age. It examines interview data with young women in and out of employment, at school or at college. It also looks briefly at the lack of explanatory models to understand the young women's situation. (Author/SSH)

Using data from a random sample of currently married adults (N=316), log-linear techniques were used to examine five aspects of household division of labor between husbands and wives as these relate to sex of respondent, labor-force status of the wife, and other independent variables. (Author)

The purpose of this study was to determine whether maternal employment affects sex role differentiation in preschoolers, and whether this relationship varies as a function of the sex of the child, father's presence or absence, and/or the sex of the child's siblings. Three hundred ninety-eight children (198 females, 200 males), whose mean age was…

Questions whether sex-role attitudes raised income in Acock and Edwards' sample (1982:587) and provides evidence which supports the thesis that occupational structure (not attitudes) determines female income. Concluded that the current challenge for sociologists appears to lie in finding and exploring the middle ground between these two…

Studies on the differences in socialization experiences of boys and girls are reviewed. The effects of increasingly common maternal employment on this process are considered. (SJL)

In this critique of Becker's book about the family, marriage, women's economic status, and demand for children, Ferber examines in detail eight shortcomings she finds in Becker's research. (SK)

Reviews evidence which suggests that the sexual division of labor and ideology of sex roles are not determined by biological constraints, but by the structural constraints of a given society. Discusses how the ideology of femininity, which evolved from the life-style of upper class White women, oppresses Black women. (Author/GC)

A study was undertaken to determine if men and women in public relations jobs differed on the extent to which they performed each of four roles. Based upon the conceptual models found in a wide range of literature on consulting, the four roles used in the study were: (1) expert prescriber, in which the practitioner operates as the authority on…

In 20 groups of secondary teaching majors discussing a school-related problem, male subjects dominated the decision-making process, initiating more verbal acts, exerting more influence, and displaying an interaction style different from that of the females. It is concluded that mixed-sex teacher groups are likely to develop status orderings based…

Research has shown that women work well as negotiators. This talent can be optimized if the role makeup of the bargaining group is given consideration. (For availability see EA 507 171) (Author/MLF)

Argues that "the journey to work has a different meaning for women than for men. Unlike men, women's home-role requirements are important predictors of the length of their journey to work. Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Work Experience of women aged 30 to 44 are examined. The main finding is that women with demanding home roles have…