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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Dual-career families."”.
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Factors related to role strain among husbands and wives in dual- career families
… associated with role strain in a sample of 69 dual-career couples. Role strain was defined as the experienced difficulty in meeting role or role-set expectations. The significant contributors to role strain among husbands were age of the youngest child and degree of childcare task sharing. For …
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Influences of mothers and dual-career families on the educational attainment of female college students
… to come from households with working mothers and dual-career families. A sample of 50 predominantly Caucasian female college students at Rowan University were surveyed on their personal and family background. A non-parametric correlation test revealed that a significant relationship existed …
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An ethnographic study of eight dual-career families: their responsibility for and performance and negotiation of household and childcare tasks
… household and child care task-sharing in eight dual-career families is allocated and negotiated. There were two specific aspects of shared tasks: responsibility for tasks as well as performance of tasks. Flexibility of spouses· employment as it affects task sharing was an important variable. …
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Black professional women in dual-career families: the relationship of marital equity and sex role identity to the career commitment of the wife
… of marital equity and sex role identity to the career commitment of black dual-career wives and to determine who does what in the family. Five research questions guided the study: a) What is the relationship of selected demographic variables (education, income, age and number of children) of …
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Conceptions of collaterality in modern Europe: Kinship ideologies from companionship to trusteeship
… and are consistent with companionate marriage, dual career families, ties to contemporaries, relatively low fertility, lower socioeconomic status, and ideological universalism. Still other conceptions emphasize line of descent (or ascent) and transmission of symbolic family estate. These kinship …
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Understanding trans-border career trajectories: Post-Soviet women professionals in London
This thesis analyses transborder career trajectories to explain how the micro-level of working agency is imbedded into broader social processes. Women migrants’ professional careers are understudied in social sciences which overwhelmingly remain gender-blind and nationally bound. As a starting …
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Bureaucratic flexibility : large organizations and the restructuring of physician careers
… intersection of professions, labor markets, and careers. To do so, it draws on longitudinal and cross-sectional data on physicians in different organizational arrangements. Physicians have been migrating into larger medical practice organizations over the past three decades, creating a valuable …
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Identity, women managers and social change: Comparing Singapore and Britain
… places empirical analysis of women managers' career stories within the context of social change and social theory on the nature of identity. The study explores how Singaporean and British women managers have discursively responded to wider change processes. 23 women managers in the financial …
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Root metaphor analysis in marital communication : an alternative method to studying coping mechanisms of dual-career spouses.
… examines the role communication plays in helping dual-career spouses structure their experiences in balancing work and family life. Specifically, the study examines: (1) the content and function of root metaphors used by dual-career spouses to describe their experiences; (2) the content of …
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Family-functioning, sex-role ideology, psychological androgyny and self-actualisation in dual-career and traditional families
… role-sharing. This trend is embodied in the dual-career family, which necessitates adaptive changes in individual men and women and in government and institutional policies. To better understand the current nature of the dual-career family, this study compared fourteen dual-career husbands …
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Examining work-family practice use and employee attitudes in a New Zealand local government organisation
… rates of women and mothers, the rise in dual-career families and single parent families, and growth in the elderly population. These changes are seen as providing employees help in balancing work and family commitments. Work-family policies are purported to offer benefits to both …
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Predictors of paternal nurturance as a function of father's personal attributes, caregiving experience, and sociocultural factors
Child development--Father's personality--Early child-care experience of fathers--Playfulness--Employment--Marriage status--Psychological support--Middle-class fathers.
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Predictors of paternal nurturance as a function of father's personal attributes, caregiving experience, and sociocultural factors
Child development--Father's personality--Early child-care experience of fathers--Playfulness--Employment--Marriage status--Psychological support--Middle-class fathers.
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Marital Experience and Spirituality among Physician Couples
… medical profession and becoming physician and dual physician couples (Levinson & Lurie, 2004; Brotherton & Etzel, 2008), and physicians’ work-related stress (Transue, 2004; Wicks, 2006) and the resulting pressures and time constraints on medical marriages (Sotile & Sotile, 2000) make studying …