Investigated whether My Vocational Situation (MVS) is valid for use with adult females, using a comparison group of homemakers (N=258) and displaced homemakers (N=100). Results generally supported the instrument's validity, although older women often failed to complete it. (JAC)

Working women appear to have a personal-value structure different from that of nonworking women. Economic and political values are more prominent among women who work, whereas social and religious values play a greater role for women who stay at home. (JOW)

This qualitative research study examined the "lived experiences" of learning identity during work transitions among three women (ages 35 to 55) who were not previously married. The research question was how do particular mid-life women who engage in a work transition re-construct the meaning of (or make sense of) their identity? Primary research…

Research indicates that the family roles of men are slowly changing, with a small minority of those sampled having primary childcare/household duties. To examine the background, life satisfaction, motives, and personality traits of such men, 16 married, male adults, whose wives were employed outside the home, and who had over 50% of the…

Describes the current post-Superwoman era in which women are more free to make choices about homemaking and employment. Women are now secure enough in the workforce that they can quit or work part-time without feeling they have let the sisterhood down. (CB)

This study, based on a survey of Milwaukee area adults, assigns the occupation of housewife a NORC prestige score of 70, one in the middle prestige range. Men and older raters evaluate it higher; working women and younger raters evaluate it lower. Housewife's social standing varies according to husband's occupation. (Author)

Explored the relationships among childhood activities, masculine and feminine characteristics, and career choices among career women and homemakers. Results indicated that childhood participation in sex-typed activities is associated with the adult personality characteristics of masculinity and femininity and adult role choices. (Author/BL)

In applying a social structural analysis of stereotyping to people's beliefs about gender, two issues must be confronted: (1) What is the content of stereotypes about men and women? and (2) What are the major differences in the ways that men and women are distributed into social roles? In part, the distribution of females and males into social…

Participants in this study were couples representing three employment groups. The first, mono-employed, consisted of couples with an employed husband and a wife who was at home full time. The dual employed group comprised an employed husband and wife, and the third group were employed husbands and wives both of whom had doctoral degrees.…

Reports a study using 107 women 30 years of age and older enrolled at Kansas State University, Manhattan, which examined their reasons for returning to college, their goals, and concerns. Recommendations are made to home economists for assisting these women at universities with handling dual roles. (TA)

This publication presents profiles of displaced homemakers and single parents through analyses from estimates from the Current Population Survey conducted in March 1989. Section 1 on displaced homemakers focuses on three areas. The first part presents a demographic profile of displaced homemakers: their marital status (how they became displaced…

Summarizes the responses of (N=131) adult women to a questionnaire survey of their experiences and activities in homemaking, parenting, volunteer work, recreation, formal and nonformal education, and paid work. Results showed that reentry women have had a wide variety of life experiences through which they have developed job-related skills.…

Describes a program at Delaware County Community College to help disadvantaged adults learn more about themselves and their relationship to others in the social and working world. The program includes an extensive assessment of basic skills to ensure proper class placement and provides individual psychological, career, academic, and financial…

First-married couples (n=1,467) interviewed for the National Survey of Families and Households were studied to evaluate how 2 life-course measures, work history and marital timing, predicted the time each spouse spent doing mundane housework. Direct relations were found for each spouse's work history on husbands' contributions to housework.…

A project assessed the impact of 21 vocational programs funded for displaced homemakers (DHs) in Pennsylvania during the three-year period 1979-80 through 1981-82. To determine whether the programs focused on priority solutions for the problems of the target population, a review of project proposals and final reports was conducted, and…