Author: Scott Lindsey ColtranePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dual-career families
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
Role Sharing in Dual-earner Families
Author: Scott Lindsey ColtranePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dual-career families
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
Men in Dual-career Families
Author: Lucia Albino GilbertPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 1317768175
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
First published in 1985. The dual-career family is emerging as the modal family form in the United States. Yet, despite its prevalence, traditional orientations and social institutions have not adapted to this pattern. This volume reports the results of a pioneering investigation of men in dual-career families and considers interventions at the societal and individual level that will ease the difficulties associated with the transition to this new family form.
Sharing the Second Shift
Author: Judy K. ParejkoHandbook of Career Counseling for Women
Author: W. Bruce WalshPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135614830
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
The goal of this book is to give career counselors knowledge awareness, and skills to work with diverse girls and women to make their lives as authentic, meaningful, and rewarding as they can possibly be. It also discusses the needs of women from different ethnic backgrounds, income levels, and sexual preferences.
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.
Paid Family Leave, Fathers' Leave-taking, and Leave-sharing in Dual-earner Households
Author: Dual-Earner Families
Author: Suzan LewisPublisher: SAGE Publications Limited
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Addressing a significant gap in the literature to date, this book focuses on dual-earner families in the international context. It brings together contributions from a range of countries and continents to examine the issues and developments for dual-earner families located in different socio-cultural, political and economic systems. In particular the book explores the ways in which dual-earner couples in these different contexts are reconstructing gender and family roles to balance the demands of work and the family.
Two Paychecks
Author: Joan AldousPublisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Contributors provide new views and data on families in which both husband and wife work. The division of labour in such homes, the family relationships within them, and the demographics of dual career families are among the topics. Are dual career families only a response to economic necessity? Do they in fact simply make women work even harder? `...a number of the articles clearly and interestingly point out the difficulties of coping in families in which there are two wage earners and yet have a conservative outlook and have difficulties in coping with the daily problems of modern life.' -- 'Ba Mishpacha', Sept 1984
Encyclopedia of Women and Gender
Author: Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 0122272455
Category : Gender identity
Languages : en
Pages : 1293
Book Description
Couples That Work
Author: Jennifer PetriglieriPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241379016
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Every couple wants a happy relationship and a meaningful career but how do we balance both? In Couples that Work, Professor Jennifer Petriglieri shifts away from the language of sacrifice and trade-offs and focuses on how couples can successfully tackle the challenges they will face throughout their lives--together. The book explores key questions like: - Can you and your partner have equally important careers or must you prioritise one over the other? - How can you juggle children or family commitments without sacrificing your work? - Does every decision require compromise or can you find solutions that benefit you both? Identifying common triggers and traps, and presenting engaging exercises to help you avoid and overcome them, this book will help every couple design their own unique way to combine love and work at every stage of their journey. 'Hugely insightful. All couples must read this now' Susan David, author of Emotional Agility 'Managing one career is hard enough; two often seems impossible. In this book, Jennifer shares what she's learned about how couples can not only survive but thrive' Adam Grant, author of Originals