Two Paychecks - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Two Paychecks write by Joan Aldous. This book was released on 1982-11. Two Paychecks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
Who Supports the Family?
Who Supports the Family? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Who Supports the Family? write by Jean L. Potuchek. This book was released on 1997. Who Supports the Family? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Dual-Earner Families
Dual-Earner Families - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dual-Earner Families write by Suzan Lewis. This book was released on 1992-02-21. Dual-Earner Families available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Role Sharing in Dual-earner Families
Role Sharing in Dual-earner Families - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Role Sharing in Dual-earner Families write by Scott Lindsey Coltrane. This book was released on 1988. Role Sharing in Dual-earner Families available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Being Together, Working Apart
Being Together, Working Apart - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Being Together, Working Apart write by Barbara Schneider. This book was released on 2005-02-24. Being Together, Working Apart available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Despite the fact that most parents are employed, how work affects the lives and well-being of parents and their children remains relatively unexplored. A recent study of 500 dual-career families in 8 communities across the US provides a holistic view of the complexities of work and family life experienced by parents and their children. Drawing on the study, this book explores how dual-earner families cope with the stresses and demands of balancing work and family life, whether the time parents spend working is negatively affecting their children, how mothers feel managing both work and household responsibilities, and what role fathers are taking in family life. In answering these questions the authors argue for a new balance between work and family life. The book with its rich data, findings, and commentary from an interdisciplinary group of scholars provides a valuable resource for academics, policy makers, and working parents
