This author is best known for her 1998 book "Domestic Tranquility: A Brief Against Feminism," in which she defended a woman's right to choose the role of homemaker, despite feminists' depiction of this role as parasitic and inferior. In this article, Graglia revisits these themes, and explains why she feels that many of the attributes of the…

This article explores the deployment of triangulation in the service of uncovering subjugated knowledge and promoting social change for women and other oppressed groups. Feminist approaches to mixed methods praxis create a tight link between the research problem and the research design. An analysis of selected case studies of feminist praxis…

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…

Faulty laws, unfair practices, and years of tradition in the workplace keep women from economic equality. The Economic Equity Act proposed by Congress will address inequalities in tax and retirement matters, the need for better dependent care, nondiscrimination in insurance, regulatory reform, and child support enforcement. (IS)

Official statistics on women's participation in the economy are used to conceal the real economic contributions of women. Several ways of tabulating a national economic activity, all of which ignore the contribution of domestic economies to national economies, are analyzed, and the implications of the invisibility of women's work are discussed.…

This describes a course offered at a university to housewives. It utilizes group methods, offers students an opportunity for self-assessment and information on opportunities for careers, volunteer work and further education. The course is accredited. Recently participants are increasingly interested in feminist issues and assertiveness. (NG)

Research on housewives indicates that role complement and norm salience predict information preferences better than does a dissonance condition. (RB)

Interviews regarding sex-role attitudes, sex-role behaviors, fertility, and fertility preferences were conducted with currently married women. Traditionalism of attitudes had a positive effect while relative performance of feminine tasks had a negative effect on total number of children wanted. (Author)

Explores the growing phenomena of mothers whose children have become old enough and who now wish to achieve an independent career outside the home. It discusses the typical characteristics of these women and the ways in which counseling can help them in their re-entry. (NG)

Used data from 697 married couples from nonmetropolitan Kentucky counties to study division of housework between spouses. Results confirm that influence of resources hinges on their relationship to sex-role attitudes. To alter traditional division of household labor, it may be necessary for women to hold more liberal sex-role attitudes. (Author/NB)

Reviews the status of graduate education for women in the United States and Canada, historical perspectives on women's work in the workplace and home, and barriers to graduate education for women. Uses psychological and liberatory models of feminist pedagogy to elucidate a feminist direction for graduate education. (Contains 49 references.) (SK)

A content analysis of women's roles in "McCalls Magazine" in 1964 and 1974 revealed two profiles of a publication that has been dispensing advice and entertainment for wives and mothers since 1876. The recent women's movement first attracted media coverage around 1968, and a study of "McCalls" before and after this time showed…

Examines the effects of multiple roles for women who have returned to school at midlife, compared to a group of their housewife neighbors. Students experience significantly greater gratification from multiple roles but also experience more strain than housewives. (SA)