Author: Kevin Allan RicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Gender-role Attitudes and Marital Satisfaction in Working-class, Dual-earner Families
Author: Kevin Allan RiceGender Roles and Family Analysis
Author: Vijay Kumar GuptaPublisher: M.D. Publications Pvt. Ltd.
ISBN: 9788185880587
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The book, Gender Roles and Family Analysis, attempts to examine the relationship between working wives decreased time availablity for family work and its impact on husbands contributions to that domain. Since the participation of women in labour force has increased at a rapid rate, the various conceptual some of the dynamics of gender relationships, especially the changes experienced by and the attending impacts on men and women in domestic as well as in paid-work spheres.
Who Supports the Family?
Author: Jean L. PotuchekPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804728362
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
In a dual-earner marriage, why is a wife’ s paid employment much less likely to be defined as "breadwinning" than her husband’s? This book uses data from a study of 153 dual-earner couples to examine the allocation of responsibility for breadwinning and the social construction of gender in their marriages. The author carefully distinguishes breadwinning from paid employment and uses the insights of gender construction theory to illuminate that distinction. Gender construction theory sees gender as a system of social relations that is continually and actively created in the social interactions of daily life. Using both quantitative and qualitative analyses, this book demonstrates that despite the prevalence of dual-earner marriages, breadwinning is still widely used as a boundary that creates gender by distinguishing the meaning of men's employment from that of women's. The author argues that though the extent to which breadwinning is used as a gender boundary is strongly influenced by adult experiences and circumstances and by the material conditions of couples' lives, it is not determined by these factors. Rather, the meanings attached to husbands’ and wives’ employment are actively constructed through a process of negotiation that is characterized by both contention and cooperation. Moreover, this is a highly dynamic process; the breadwinning boundary is renegotiated and reconstructed in response to disagreement, to changing circumstances, and to shifts in other, related gender boundaries. Through its detailed analysis of breadwinning and its development of gender boundaries as a theoretical concept, this book provides new insight into gender relations and makes a contribution to gender construction theory. At the same time, it is engagingly written and provides moving glimpses of the real-life dilemmas of dual-earner couples.
Attitudes Toward Traditional Versus Egalitarian Gender Roles in Dual-earner Marriages and Their Effect on Marital Satisfaction
Author: Rosie C. GuzmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Husband and wife
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
More Equal Than Others
Author: Rosanna HertzPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520063372
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
By placing the dual-career marriage in its economic and social context, More Equal Than Others goes beyond the media image of dual-career couples as self-sufficient units and compels the reader to confront the dilemmas and possibilities of modern marriages. Book jacket.
Equal Partners
Author: Dana VannoyPublisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
This innovative study focuses on high-achieving women and their families. Both partners were interviewed in an attempt to define the challenges these families face and the secrets of their successes. The authors' analysis of the successes and failures of these relationships is extended into a general examination of the disjuncture between social change and changes in individuals' attitudes and behaviour. The result is an important contribution to the understanding of the effects of shifting gender roles on the modern marriage, on contemporary families and on society as a whole.
The Effect of Women's Achievement on Dual-career Couples and Its Relation to Division of Labor and Marital Adjustment
Author: Margarita Prado-BorregoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Achievement motivation in women
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Dual-career Marriage
Author: Lisa R. SilbersteinPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 1317783565
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Dual-career marriage, in which wife and husband each pursue a professional career, offers a window into the changing landscape of gender roles and relations. In the span of a single generation, the family in which both parents work outside the home has gone from being the exception to being the rule. This book examines the multi-layered implications this impressive, rapid change holds for the fabric of family and marital life and for the course of men's and women's work lives. Intensive interviews with dual-career wives and husbands provide rich information about four major issues: * In what ways and for whom do dual-career marriages replicate the traditional gender arrangements of one-career marriages, and in what ways do dual-career marriages represent a revolution in gender roles? * How do the two careers of spouses develop side by side, and in what ways do dual-career spouses help or hinder each other's careers? * How do work and family combine in dual-career marriages? * How are relationships between spouses and between parents and children affected by dual careers? This book presents a subtle, textured portrait of contemporary dual-career marriage -- examining the complicated interplay of expectations, behaviors, and emotions within and between dual-career spouses. The author observes that the centrality of family or work to each spouse's sense of self powerfully affects how the couple negotiates the challenges posed by dual-career marriage, including feelings of competition between spouses, questions of geographic moves, and division of domestic tasks. The study illuminates many issues of clinical relevance, such as the common hazard of dual-career spouses having little time for marital intimacy once the rigorous demands of careers and children are met, and the complicated intrapersonal as well as interpersonal tensions generated by gender roles in transition.
Women, Work and Marriage in Urban India
Author: G N RamuPublisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Based on a study of dual- and single-earner couples in Bangalore city, this book argues that social and cultural contexts preclude women from using their economic status to fundamentally alter the domestic order. The author asserts that the wife's paid work has not resulted in a universal change of attitudes toward gender-related issues. Instead, the wife's paid work has become part of her obligations, thus nullifying the power of economic resource as an instrument of change in her domestic status.
Gender Roles
Author: D. K. SudhaPublisher: APH Publishing
ISBN: 9788176481748
Category : Sex role
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description