This article summarized the perspective of this issue by recognizing the validity of the issues being raised by the women's rights movement and also recognizing that the "liberation of women" means the liberation of men. (Author/RK)

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)

Investigates several sets of personality and attitudinal variables to assess their relationship to one clear-cut example of sex-role behavior, namely, labor-force participation on the part of married women, and corrects some methodological limitations of earlier studies. (Author)

Until recent years, many women worked to supplement the family income. The number of female heads of households is growing; increasingly, many women are becoming the sole source of family income. Families of married women are becoming more and more dependent on the "second" income. Women are struggling to move into the high-paying jobs…

The status of the housewife and mother roles may be declining as more women enter the labor force and birth rates continue to fall. Such changes in sex-role attitudes could lead to increases in female labor force participation which are much larger than those projected. (Author)

Longitudinal study of 166 couples indicated wives' participation in labor force is not negatively related to size of families. The study, which used a key informant methodology, the LISREL model, and a recursive model, also indicated labor force participation of wives and family size are codetermined by achievement motivation, sex role norms, and…

Analyzed whether the relative attainments of spouses at one point in time are associated with divorce, leaving the labor force, moving to a lower status job, and/or moving to a traditional job. Findings emphasized the importance of wife's employment in a nontraditional job as a predictor of change. (Author/RC)

Results of this investigation indicate that wives' concern for equal rights within the labor-force context is heightened by participation in marital unions characterized by status inconsistency across the dyad when these women hold nontraditional views on an indicator of family sex-role ideology and are under 30 years of age. (Author)

Participants in this study were couples representing three employment groups. The first, mono-employed, consisted of couples with an employed husband and a wife who was at home full time. The dual employed group comprised an employed husband and wife, and the third group were employed husbands and wives both of whom had doctoral degrees.…

Results from this survey show: (1) turnover rates--between 7 and 10 percent--are relatively low compared to those in other service fields; (2) although not statistically significant, female turnover rate was 66 percent higher than the male rate; and (3) males are more likely to resign for another position, females to leave the workforce. (CDD)

Boston-area families described the ambivalence of male responses to pressures of increased participation in homemaking. Because of different social support networks, men obtain little support and help in performing housework. Men perceiving paid employment as their primary contribution hesitate to acknowledge responsibility for homemaking…

Used trend analysis of suicide rate and female/male suicide ratios from 1950 to 1984 and regression of ratio on educational attainment, labor force participation, fertility, and divorce rates to examine explanations for rate changes. General anomie explanation of female suicide trends was supported for middle-aged females; conjugal anomie…

Examines reversal of two longstanding unemployment patterns in 1980-82 recession: nonmetropolitan unemployment rate exceeded metropolitan rate and men's unemployment rate exceeded women's. Attributes reversals to recent changes in labor force: shift to service economy, expansion of women's role in workplace, and changes in women's working…

The 1970 National Fertility Study was used to investigate relationships between sex role attitudes and the childbearing and labor force participation of women. It was found that the most crucial aspect of working and fertility was the extent to which the woman identified the female role as that of housewife and homemaker. (Author)

A systematic examination and debunking of three myths surrounding black women workers: (1) black women have better jobs than black men, (2) black women and white men are the most successful groups in U.S. society, and (3) black women do most of the work because they are the heads of most black families. (EH)