The changing work patterns of women, men & teens
A central concern for most Adults
What is balancing work?
Are more likely to work part-time, earn less, and receive fewer benefits but they also assume more family responsibilities and report greater stress in both work and family roles.
What are Women?
Refers to the work of trying to find the right feeling, to make and keep everything fine.
What is Emotional Work?
An active process in which individuals manage a set of demands that is perceived as excessive or experiences as stressful
What is coping?
Employers place women on this once they return to work.
What is the mommy track?
Where women and men are differentiated by what they do?
What is the labor market
When women work the evening shift and the man stays home with responsibilities of the household and child-care tasks.
What is “Re-gendering”?
This is the principal predictor of involvement in housework.
Gender is...
A strategy used principally by working-class families
What is split-shift parenting?
The likelihood of teen employment is related to is the same social process that creates obstacles to the adult employment population.
What is social class and race?
A diverse group of high school students, college students, and drop outs?
What are teen workers?
3 causes of increased labor force participation.
What are Changes in economy, Decline in Real Earnings, and Personal Fulfillment and Self-Reliance
Wives, among dual-earner couples with full time jobs, spend ___ time on housework and child care than their husbands.
This requires employers of 50 or more people to provide 12 weeks of unpaid leave to any worker who is experiencing an emergency
What is the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993?
3 types of work
What is white collar and professional, blue collar, and professional satisfaction from work?
New jobs created in the economy such as secondary sector service and administrative support occupations.
What are traditional female jobs ?
Two major problems identified since the implementation of the family and medical leave act.
What are 'The protected leaves provided by law are unpaid' and 'Employers with less than 50 workers are required to provide no leave at all'
Referred to as “the third shift, ” this work involves taking responsibility for the upkeep and ritual celebration of cross-household kin ties.
What is Kin Work?
This reduces overall work stress by giving workers an increased measure of control over their lives.
What is flexibility?
Study after study has identified the importance of job flexibility in facilitating the integration of...
What is Work and Family Life
According to Jessie Bernard, with industrialization and the rise of separate spheres model of gender roles, _________ because the standard against which masculinity was measured.
What is the “good provider” role
Discovered a growing tendency for workers to escape family pressures by taking refuge in the efficiency, predictability, and camaraderie of the workplace.
Who is Arlie Hochschild?
Their research found that social class, race/ethnicity, and personality gave limited clues about who does and does not share the second shift.
Arlie Hochschild
The set of parents that are most susceptible to work-family conflict
What are employed single parents?
The process of women multitasking competing demands by adjusting the timing of events over the life course, as a common way of dealing with work/family overload
What is Sequencing?