Two paychecks
Subtitle: life in dual-earner families
By: edited by Joan Aldous.
Contributors: Aldous, Joan.
Series: Sage focus editions ;; 56
Publisher: Sage Publications
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Beverly Hills
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
Subjects: Dual-career families -- United States; Married people -- Employment -- United States
Notes: "Portions of this book are reproduced from a special issue of the Journal of family issues, June 1981"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: Overview: From dual-earner to dual-career families and back again / Joan Aldous. Dual-earner families, their economic and demographic characteristics / Howard Hayghe. Dual-career families, vanguard of the future or residue of the past? / Janet G. Hunt and Larry L. Hunt; title: The interdependence of occupations and families: Work schedules and work-family conflict in two-earner couples / Joseph H. Pleck and Graham L. Staines. Hours worked by husbands and wives / Lawrence C. Marsh. Women's jobs and family adjustment / Chaya S. Piotrkowski and Paul Crits-Christoph. Marital effects on occupational attainment / Bam Dev Sharda and Barry E. Nangle; title: Within the two-earner family: Conjugal work roles and marital solidarity / Ida Harper Simpson and Paula England. Reconsidering the dual-career marriage / Margaret M. Poloma, Brian F. Pendleton, and T. Neal Garland. Housework by husbands, determinants and implications / Suzanne Model. Preschoolers' sex-role identity, father-role perceptions, and paternal family participation / Bonnie E. Carlson; title: A research agenda: The next generation in dual-earner family research / Rhona Rapoport and Robert N. Rapoport.