Women's Employment
Large-scale changes in the U.S. economy have pulled women into the labor force and families have become dependent on women's income
What explains the dramatic changes in women's labor force participation?
The demands of professional and managerial occupations, in contract to those of lower-paid white-collar and blue-collar jobs, pose very different problems for the family
What are job characteristics that affect day to day family relations?
Without shopping, cooking, housework, and other forms of care work
When would the economy be at a standstill?
An active process in which individuals manage a set of demands that is perceived as excessive or experienced as stressful
What is coping?
Occurs when individuals experience an incompatibility between their responsibilities as workers and their responsibilities in their families
What is work-family conflict?
What is a direct consequence of structural changes in the economy?
Women are more likely to work part-time, earn less, and receive fewer benefits than men, but they also assume more family responsibility
What is gender inequality?
What is interaction work?
Federal government made modest efforts to help families cope with child care through tax credits and programs for subsidizing the child care costs of low income parents
What is the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993?
The transfer of moods, feelings, and behaviors between work and family settings
What is spillover?
Women began to question their traditional roles in family and society
What happened in the late 1960s and early 1970s?
The level of economic rewards associated with work and the conditions associated with performing a job
What are two major aspects of work that affect family life directly?
Maintaining contact and connections among kin as well as providing care and assistance to family members in other households
What is kin work?
What is split-shift parenting?
Women's and men's uneven relationship to work and family
What is the work-family role system?
Affordable and adequate child care is simply not available
Why are many women unable to work?
The same computer-based technologies that shape contemporary macro-structural processes of globalization
What is also reshaping micro-level processes of family life?
Involves selecting goods and making purchases
What is consumption work?
A common way of dealing with work-family overload has been to juggle competing demands by adjusting the timing of events over the life course
What is sequencing?
Women's disproportional time in housework, child care, and home management
What is the second-shift?
Men working while women stay home to take care of children
What is the male family wage?
When they produce income
When is the women's power within the family greater?
What creates divisiveness within marital relationships?
Many women find that their employers place them on this when returning from work after leave
What is the mommy track?
The work of trying to find the right feeling, to make and keep everything fine
What is emotion work?