This article focuses on multiple truths pertaining to doctoral education as expressed by three Latina doctoral recipients. These scholars successfully navigated various educational processes with the support of one another, their families, faculty, and their chosen discipline. The authors, as sister scholars, retell their educational journeys…

Data from 372 adults who are married and/or parents were used to test a model of work-family interface that distinguishes between proximal and distal predictors of conflict. Results support an indirect reciprocal relationship between work-to-family and family-to-work conflict. Each type of conflict had three predictors: distress, overload, and…

Medical technologists (n=196) were followed over 4 years. Higher levels of work exhaustion were related to perceived work interference with family, task load, and lower organizational support. Distributive justice partly mediated the effects of work interference and support on exhaustion. Distributive justice mediated the impact of procedural…

Provides a snapshot of situations that volunteers encounter and offers strategies used to balance the demands of volunteering, family, and work. Explains how situations encountered and strategies relate to volunteer satisfaction. (Contains 36 references.) (JOW)

Responses from 98 teleworkers and 123 onsite workers found that teleworkers had lower levels of the dimensions of work-family conflict (WFC): time-, strain-, and behavior-based work interference with family and family interference. Male teleworkers had higher levels of WFC; there were no gender differences for nonteleworkers. WFC was significantly…

Census data from 1900, 1910, and 1940 show how gendered expectations about families constrained nurses' careers. Divisions in the field regarding profession versus craft are evident in the lack of movement toward long-term employment patterns. (SK)

Addresses the challenges of cross-gender and same-gender mentoring for women, as well as the issues of family demands, race, and whether mentoring is elitist. (SK)

An alternative to the work-nonwork balance metaphor is the concept of time as container of meaning. A model relates meanings derived from work and nonwork time to the experience of work-nonwork conflict. This conflict is shaped by the extent to which work and nonwork time affirms or conflicts with identity. (Contains 75 references.) (Author/SK)

This article uses a differential salience-comparable salience approach to examine the effects of work demands and resources on work-to-family conflict and facilitation. The analysis is based on data from 1,938 employed adults living with a family member who were interviewed for the 1997 National Study of the Changing Workforce. The results support…

An increasing number of Americans today are finding themselves in the position of being both a full-time employee and a part- or full-time caregiver for an adult relative. Often, their job responsibilities and their caregiving duties collide, creating undue stress and costing both the employer and the employee hundreds of thousands of dollars in…

Family life practitioners are increasingly being called upon to help families meet work-life challenges. This article describes the grassroots beginnings, program development, and formative evaluation findings for 1 module of a Cooperative Extension work-life management program. Although the curriculum module is based on theory and research, it…

Increasingly women in nearly all sports are either leaving intercollegiate coaching or never entering in the first place. While most concern over women's sports has focused on the opportunities that federal equity laws have offered to female players--whose numbers have grown steadily--the ranks of female coaches have quietly dwindled. Last year…

Managing work and family responsibilities is particularly difficult for military families with children. While military life has always been demanding, in recent years an increasing number of military personnel in both the Active Duty Force and Selected Reserves have had to confront the additional demands of parenthood. Providing resources to…

The Self-Efficacy for Work-Family Conflict Management Scale (SE-WFC), developed in Israel, was designed to assess beliefs regarding one's ability to manage conflict between work and family roles. This study examined the factor structure, reliability, and validity of an English language version of the SE-WFC in a sample of 159 working mothers in…

Previous research on China's labor market gender gaps has emphasized the human and political capital disadvantages of women and new discrimination in the reform era. Analyzing the China Urban Labor Survey/China Adult Literacy Survey, this paper shows that while women are significantly disadvantaged by various measures of human and political…