NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 4 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Hawkins, Alan J.; Roberts, Tomi-Ann – Family Relations, 1992
Critiques the few scholarly reports found on interventions to help dual-earner couples share domestic labor and to increase fathers' temporal involvement in child care. Presents model of forces both constraining and driving equitable participation in domestic labor. Recommends model as basis on which to design, implement, and evaluate family life…
Descriptors: Employed Parents, Family Life Education, Fathers, Housework
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Hartmann, Heidi I. – Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 1981
Suggests that the family, rather than being an active agent with unified interests, is a locus of struggle. Identifies and explores the material aspects of gender relations within family units, focusing on the nature of work people do in the family and their control over the products of their labor. (Author/GC)
Descriptors: Capitalism, Conflict, Economic Factors, Family (Sociological Unit)
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Bahr, Stephen J., Ed. – Journal of Family Issues, 1982
Examines, in eight articles, changes in family economics. Studied effects of low income on young womens' high school completion, impact of negative income tax on children, moonlighting husbands, wives and husband's housework, relationship between human capital and fertility, household expenditure patterns, and cost of housewives' lost work…
Descriptors: Birth Rate, Consumer Economics, Economic Factors, Educational Attainment
Marcus, Rachel; Harper, Caroline – 1997
Recognizing the vulnerability of working children to possible exploitation and abuse, this report examines remunerated and unremunerated work performed by children worldwide, ranging from child labor in factories and agriculture to work conducted within the family household. Section 1 of the report describes the scale and importance of children's…
Descriptors: Child Labor, Child Welfare, Children, Education Work Relationship