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Download full textBureau of Labor Statistics (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1992
The transitions of women into and out of part-time work were studied by examining the same women over time, using data from the Young Women's cohort of the National Longitudinal Surveys. Two groups of women were studied: those who were aged 29-33 in 1978 and those who were 29-33 in 1983. The labor force transitions of the two groups were compared…
Descriptors: Demography, Employed Women, Employment Patterns, Females
Peer reviewedTerry, Sylvia Lazos – Monthly Labor Review, 1982
A survey on work experience of the population shows that the median income of families with an unemployed member was 21 percent lower than that of families without unemployment. (Author)
Descriptors: Black Employment, Employed Women, Family Financial Resources, Family Income
Bureau of Labor Statistics (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1992
The work patterns of women with some work experience over the 1976 to 1989 period were examined as they approach retirement, using data from the Mature Women's cohort of the National Longitudinal Surveys. The data provided information on a sample of women who were between the ages of 30 and 45 in 1967 and who have been interviewed regularly since…
Descriptors: Demography, Employed Women, Employment Patterns, Females
Peer reviewedPerlmutter, Jane Clarkson; Wampler, Karen Smith – Home Economics Research Journal, 1985
This study of 75 families with at least one preschool child examined the effects of sex-role orientation and wife's employment status on the division of housework and child care and husband and wife's satisfaction with that division. Results indicate that where wives work outside the home, husbands and wives share child care and housework more.…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Employed Women, Employment Level, Home Management
Bureau of Labor Statistics (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1992
Child-care arrangements of young working mothers were examined in a study using data from the Youth cohort of the National Longitudinal Surveys of Labor Market Experience. The data provided information on a sample of young men and women who were between the ages of 14 and 22 in 1979 and who have been interviewed annually since then. The data…
Descriptors: Adults, Blacks, Child Rearing, Costs
Cleveland, Robert W.; Henson, Mary F. – Current Population Reports, 1984
This report contains data on the annual earnings of husbands and wives and their combined earnings as married couples. A narrative summarizing findings precedes each group of related charts and tables. Figures 1A through 1C and tables 1A through 1D classify the earnings of married couples, husbands, and wives by weeks of work and…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Education, Children, Dual Career Family
Catalyst, New York, NY. – 1981
Two surveys were conducted to further increase understanding of two-career families and the corporations that employ them. First, questionnaires sent to Fortune 1300 corporations probed for awareness on the part of corporations of the problems of two-career couples and attempted to elicit evidence of new policy planning. A total of 374 companies…
Descriptors: Adults, Day Care, Demography, Employed Women
General Mills, Inc., Minneapolis, Minn. – 1981
Fourth in a series of studies on the American family conducted for General Mills Corporation, this publication provides findings from a survey exploring the relationship between work and the family in contemporary society. Specifically, the survey explores how changes in the work force, especially the increase in numbers of working wives and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Choice, Child Rearing, Employed Parents
