Discusses the status of women in contemporary Japan. Describes their role as mothers and homemakers, the obstacles they face in maintaining developing careers, and the discrimination they face in a patriarchal society. (Author/ABB)

Research on work-related stress has tended to focus on males and to neglect gender as a variable; often, findings from studies of men are incorrectly generalized to women. This article focuses on the assumptions, gaps, and biases in the literature in this area. (Author/LHW)

Examined how assessments of role behavior in the family and relative deprivation in work-family situations were linked with depression among homemakers (N=130) and employed married women (N=135). Results showed that negative evaluations of role behavior in the family were more depressing to homemakers than to employed women. (NRB)

Investigated the relation of stereotypic role behavior and women's self-esteem in 456 college-educated women. Occupational congruence was found to have a positive relation to self-esteem. Attitudes toward women's roles were associated with amount of labor force attachment and were a factor distinguishing homemakers, job holders, and careerists.…

Two studies were performed investigating college students' attitudes toward male and female housespouse whose primary duties were childcare and major household tasks and whose economic contributions were earnings from writing. Housespouse's sex and pursuit of outside activities as well as subject's parental background were related to students'…

Interviewed 63 nonworking and 42 working mothers with a first baby to examine the relationship between previous work involvement and the experience of first-time motherhood. Results showed high-work-involvement women tended to report greater irritability and higher costs of motherhood. For working mothers, work involvement was generally unrelated…

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)

Presents a model of role conflict coping behavior that is based on three levels in the role process: structural role definition, personal role redefinition, and reactive role behavior. Using the results of a survey of college educated women, 16 behavioral strategies are identified and classified. The relationship between coping behavior and…

Occupational home economics has been affected by several critical problems which hamper its integration with home economics education, including sex discrimination, devaluation of homemaking and "women's jobs," and marital parity. Educators should find new ways to encourage and nurture occupational home economics. (SK)

The problems in measuring the economic value of the homemaker's job are examined. They include the complexity of components of the job, variations in the workload, and tools of measurement and valuation. (CT)

Studies adequacy of the theory of work adjustment for explaining homemaker and career orientation in women. Situational factors such as age, marital status, and education are important determinants. Career-oriented women had stronger needs for autonomy and good work conditions. Homemaker-oriented women had stronger needs for altruism. (JAC)

Although the American family is changing, it is not eroding. Women who work are still handling motherhood and household responsibilities and are contributing to the family's economic situation. There still exists a significant sexual division of labor in the home, though changes in sharing responsibility and authority have occurred. (CT)

Single women who planned to be housewives at age 35 were more likely to marry soon. Between 1969 and 1975 this proportion decreased sharply. The change in future work plans may have reduced the chances that a woman in her early twenties would marry in the next few years. (Author)

In an empirical investigation, 40 female students were studied at various stages of adolescent development. The study revealed that the girls' lack of realistic vocational planning should be attributed to their failure to acknowledge the potential for conflict between the vocational and the housewife/mother career choices. (JN)

Presents a factor analysis of the responses of 170 Brazilian women to a Portuguese version of Rotter's I-E scale. "The analysis suggests the existence of two main independent factors, one which could be said to correspond to the original meaning intended for the scale and the other to the concept of fatalism."