Examined the relationships between the nature of adults' work and their parenting attitudes and behaviors. Positive features of work tended to be associated with developmentally sound parenting. Results suggest that the conditions of work influence parenting through their effect on mood, and certain conditions of work may directly socialize…

Analysis of characteristics of self-employed women and men suggested that family characteristics (such as children and marital status) are significant predictors of women's self-employment; human capital characteristics predict men's self-employment. Advanced age and education are among the determinants for both men and women. (SK)

Three interviews each with 10 female secondary family/consumer education teachers elicited themes suggesting that the family plays a role in development of the meanings people hold about the nature of work and choice and persistence in integrated work roles. Families appear to nurture employability skills/values, job-specific skills/values, and…

Based on examination of 326 studies, this review covers the issues of career development, reciprocal work/nonwork interactions, and women's labor force participation for 1992 through 1994. It concludes that efforts to link career variables to family systems and personality theories have been instructive. Gender, ethnicity, and career self-efficacy…

Six focus groups with 49 rural residents identified concerns about balancing work and family (time, energy, conflicting demands, child care), causes of imbalance, and types of help needed. Results were used to plan programs on time and resource management, meal planning, and relationship skills. (SK)

As companies focus on competition and profit margins, workers are confronted with threats to their identities based on real or anticipated job loss. Article focuses on features of job insecurity that affect these workers, those who remain, and the organizations in which they work. Gives recommendations for assisting job-insecure employees using…

Married veterinarians were surveyed about work satisfaction, work-related stress, marital-family stress, and spousal support for their career. Female veterinarians reported greater effect of martial/family stress on career and less perceived support than did their male counterparts. Areas of greatest work dissatisfaction for both genders were…

The process of reproducing gender through discourses can inhibit role sharing and multiple roles for women. Two discourses influence the psyches of men and women to reproduce ideal types: women and men as equals and men as incompetent caregivers. (SK)

Explores the often difficult but ultimately rewarding experience of being a tenure-seeking film professor at California State University. Describes a brutal workload, balancing the demands of motherhood and career advancement, and making a documentary film about the earthquake that destroyed the campus. (EV)

For 179 workers with family responsibilities, flexibility of work was associated with job satisfaction and family well-being, flexible work schedules were not. Supportive supervision was associated only with increased employee citizenship and did not increase work-family balance of those at risk. Family-friendly culture did not appear to benefit…

Investigation of differences between women who change jobs after childbirth and those who stay with employers reveals that women are motivated to change by both financial and family reasons. A trade of compensation for greater family accommodation may be more necessary for those with lower levels of skill, education, and experience. (SK)

Because of women's increased participation in the labor market, there is an increasing pressure on families. Women are expected to provide stability, focus on child development, and bolster colleagues against unemployment and retraining, whereas society is expected to provide child care facilities and flexible education. (JOW)

Explores two fundamental concerns reflected in the articles in this journal issue: (1) promoting a healthy balance of paid work and family responsibilities; and (2) developing new models to ensure that all families can receive appropriate child-care services in their communities. (Author/DLH)

The debate about work-family relationships must focus on the nature of family life, the place of women in the new economy, the needs of children, and the future of an aging population. Because the workplace has limited capacity to meet work-family needs, partnerships with government services are needed. (JOW)

Analysis of data from 8 female manufacturing workers, 13 professionals, and 10 clerical workers, two themes emerged: (1) women and organizational change; and (2) disappearing boundaries of work and family. The assumptions of human resource development about why and how women work and definitions of productive work were found to be flawed and…