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Ecevit, Yildiz; Gunduz-Hosgor, Ayse; Tokluoglu, Ceylan – Career Development International, 2003
A survey of 64 Turkish women employed as computer programmers found they are typically young, urban, and well educated. A greater proportion are single or divorced than are other employed women. Married programmers typically combine traditional domestic roles with full-time work. (Contains 44 references.) (SK)
Descriptors: Coping, Employed Women, Foreign Countries, Marital Status
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Greenstein, Theodore N. – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1990
Examined simultaneous effects of multiple indicators of wife's employment on marital disruption for women (N=1,798) who first married between 1968 and 1982. Results indicated the rate and timing of marital disruption was negatively related to wife's income and positively related to number of hours worked per week and amount of premarital work…
Descriptors: Divorce, Employed Women, Employment Patterns, Marital Instability
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Stinson, John F., Jr. – Monthly Labor Review, 1990
According to a survey conducted in 1989, more than 7.2 million people held 2 or more jobs, an increase of 26 percent from 1985 and 52 percent from 1980. Women accounted for nearly two-thirds of the 1.5 million increase in multiple jobholders between 1985 and 1989. (Author)
Descriptors: Employed Women, Employment Patterns, Labor Market, Multiple Employment
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Freeman, Suzanne C.; Haring-Hidore, Marilyn – Journal of Career Development, 1988
Describes an outplacement program for hourly women workers that assisted participants in identifying skills, interests, and values; identified community resources; taught job hunting skills; and encouraged participation in a support group. (JOW)
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Employed Women, Job Search Methods, Outplacement Services (Employment)
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Kennedy, R. Bryan – Journal of Employment Counseling, 1988
Examined recruitment data for the United States Missile Command from years 1978-1984 to ascertain whether or not the Veterans' Readjustment Program presented a barrier to recruitment of women. Found adverse effects on recruitment of women, noting recruitment efforts successful with one population may present barriers to another. (Author/ABL)
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Employed Women, Personnel Selection, Recruitment
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Saenz, Rogelio; And Others – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1989
Used data from 1979 National Chicano Survey to examine effects of employment and marital relations on mental health of Mexican-American women. Found that marital satisfaction and husband's help with housework both helped to decrease women's depression levels. Women's employment status was not related to depression. When examining employed women…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Employed Women, Employment, Females
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Voydanoff, Patricia – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 1988
Reviews Jessie Bernard's writings on women, work, and family. Explores the dilemmas of caring, the feminization of work, work and family roles over the life course, and the two worlds of women and men. Suggests implications for future research on women's work and family roles. (BH)
Descriptors: Employed Women, Family Life, Family Role, Reader Response
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Sorensen, Elaine – Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 1989
A study found that women in female-dominated jobs earned 6-15 percent less than women with the same characteristics in other occupations. These results support the hypothesis that women are crowded into "female" jobs because of employer discrimination, resulting in lower wages for these jobs. (JOW)
Descriptors: Employed Women, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Nontraditional Occupations, Salary Wage Differentials
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Whiston, Susan C. – Journal of Career Development, 1993
When 96 of 220 women in nontraditional occupations and 100 of 300 in traditional occupations completed self-efficacy scales, results showed employed women do have higher self-efficacy for working with people than with things. Among the differences between the two groups, traditional women had higher self-efficacy for serving and helping,…
Descriptors: Employed Women, Helping Relationship, Interpersonal Relationship, Nontraditional Occupations
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Tzeng, Meei-Shenn – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1992
Used data from National Longitudinal Surveys to investigate patterns and determinants of marital dissolution for first marriages. Found that risk of marital instability was highest among couples with heterogamous education and nontraditional employment patterns. Couples who equalized their original education and conventionalized employment status…
Descriptors: Divorce, Educational Attainment, Employed Women, Marital Instability
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Hoskins, Irene – Ageing International, 1992
Social security systems in many countries must serve different populations of women, both as beneficiaries and as insured workers. As more women are acquiring their own social security rights, it is unclear what jobs they will have, what the benefits will be, what family responsibilities they will have, and what social policies will affect their…
Descriptors: Employed Women, Females, Foreign Countries, Fringe Benefits
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Morgan, Kris S.; Brown, Laura S. – Counseling Psychologist, 1991
Considers unique career development issues of lesbians. Reviews available literature on lesbians and work, drawing parallels between work experiences of lesbians, nonlesbian women, and other minority status groups. Presents three models of career development in women and explores applicability of each theory to increasing understanding of lesbian…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Development, Employed Women, Females
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Bergen, Elizabeth – Journal of Family Issues, 1991
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…
Descriptors: Consumer Economics, Employed Women, Housework, Sex Differences
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Devine, Theresa J. – Monthly Labor Review, 1994
One in 15 employed women was self-employed in her main job in 1990. The decision to become self-employed appears intricately linked with several other decisions for a woman--as an individual, as a household member, and over the course of her life. (Author)
Descriptors: Employed Women, Employment Patterns, Individual Characteristics, Self Employment
Smith, Patricia L.; Smits, Stanley J. – Training and Development, 1994
Only a leadership team that includes masculine and feminine strengths is strong and flexible enough to compete in today's marketplace. To meet current and economic challenges and to prepare for the next century, organizations should promote diversity on their leadership teams and allow women's personal leadership styles to flower. (JOW)
Descriptors: Employed Women, Leadership Qualities, Leadership Training, Sex Differences
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