Examined the amount of time adolescents spend viewing television. Findings indicated that adolescents viewed television 147 minutes per day. Employment of mother significantly affected the time adolescents spend viewing television. Sex of adolescent, age of father, mother, and adolescent, education of father and mother, income of family, and day…

Indicated that demographic variables in combination with attitudinal predictors are useful explainers of past as well as future mobility in two-earner families. Among wives, sex-role orientation, role salience, and individual income related to mobility. Among husbands, individual income, role salience, sex-role orientation, and wife's employment…

Describes the choices, barriers, and experiences of women employed in and seeking employment in nontraditional occupations, based on a survey of 75 women. Results indicated the women held strong views of sex role equality, and named money and benefits as the most common reason for pursuing nontraditional careers. (JAC)

Drawing on a national study of working women, this article discusses some significant differences between the women educators who had suffered from midlife crises (two-thirds of those responding) and those who had not, and provided clues about how such crises can be reduced in severity. (PGD)

This study explores how sex is related to core-periphery placement and mobility from labor force entry to almost midcareer. The results support the existing literature that suggests women enter the labor force in peripheral industries. Limitations and issues pertaining to future studies using both individualistic and structural approaches are…

Children from divorced families did not have more household or childcare responsibilities than other children, but they did assume a confidant role with their mothers more often. They also rated themselves lower in social competence. Maternal employment decreased the children's participation in athletic activities and involvement with friends.…

While Algerian women were instrumental in the struggle for independence, often carrying on crucial and dangerous work, and their rights are guaranteed by the new government, they still lag behind men in many areas such as education, employment, political participation, and control over reproduction, because of discrimination. (IS)

Explores marriages in which marriage and family life are organized around the wife's job or career rather than the husband's (N=46). Found three predictive social conditions: wives having traditionally male jobs, flexibility of husbands' jobs, and absence of children. Describes techniques of deviance neutralization used to minimize costs. (JAC)

Describes the current post-Superwoman era in which women are more free to make choices about homemaking and employment. Women are now secure enough in the workforce that they can quit or work part-time without feeling they have let the sisterhood down. (CB)

Investigated whether a 20-hour workshop would facilitate the decision making of 20 career women experiencing difficulty deciding whether to have children. Significant differences among participants' attitudes, feelings, and inclinations toward parenthood were not found from the pre- to postprogram measure; however, 42 percent of the women made a…

Presents abstracts from "Resources in Education" on (1) teaching about women in organizational communication; (2) communication as part of job satisfaction; and (3) research in organizational communication. (PD)

Examines individual and labor market influences on wage attainment across the different family and work schedules followed by 1,417 married women aged 30 to 44. Results showed early career entry, continuous employment and favorable industrial locations yielded higher wages at midlife, although few women fit this pattern. (JAC)

Surveyed male and female professionals in higher education (N=96) and business (N=72) in two studies of the benefits of being a mentor, regardless of whether the respondent had a mentor. Describes benefits such as creating a support system. Lack of a mentor need not stop career advancement. (JAC)

A brief insight into a collection of papers and an annotated bibliography, Women and World Development. Themes discussed include importance of women to the development process, modernization, urbanization. (EB)

Article discusses some of the laws pertaining to relationships between the sexes, and some of the sociocultural changes that seem to be taking place in this country and around the world. (Author/RK)