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Direct linkVen, Thomas Vander; Cullen, Francis T. – Crime & Delinquency, 2004
Social critics and the general public have for some time voiced a variety of concerns related to the increasing entrance of women into the paid labor market. A popular assumption has been that the children of working women are prone to criminal activity. The authors analyze data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), using multiple…
Descriptors: Employment Level, Crime, Mothers, Employed Women
Peer reviewedPascual, Liliana; And Others – Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1995
Examined and compared the psychosocial predictors of a mother's decision to work and the number of hours worked in Argentina compared to the U.S. Results from 78 U.S. and 68 Argentinean women revealed that better educated, higher status U.S. women worked longer hours after childbirth than similar women in Argentina. Cultural and economic…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Influences, Employed Parents
