Paper delivered at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, California, September, 1967.

Participants in this study were couples representing three employment groups. The first, mono-employed, consisted of couples with an employed husband and a wife who was at home full time. The dual employed group comprised an employed husband and wife, and the third group were employed husbands and wives both of whom had doctoral degrees.…

An experimental program is described which was designed to train non-urban housewives for paid employment as paraprofessional peer counselors. A flow chart traces the origin of the project back to 1969, when the future project director recognized the mental health needs of a variety of non-urban housewives of all ages. The resulting peer counselor…

This brief report presents and discusses statistics on the marital and family characteristics of workers in 1973 [e.g., nearly 40 million married men and 20 million married women were among the 88 million person labor force, and of the 1.7 million increase in the labor force, three-quarters consisted of married women (34 percent), single men (24…

Two articles discuss the organization and implementation of a one-week summer school designed for working class housewives in Belfast. The first article, Organize the Course, describes recruitment, staffing, and student characteristics and needs. The second article, planning the content, discusses the aims and content of the course. (EC)

A majority of college women want a career or combined career and marriage. As seniors they are even more strongly committed to a career than they were as freshmen. Career-oriented versus homemaking-oriented may no longer be a useful distinction for today's women students. (Author)

Advertisers should note that married working women tend to read more magazines and watch less television than married non-working women. (RL)

This paper focuses on the situational factors which operate on women to shape their domestic and professional choices and behavior. The analysis proposed is based on social psychological theories, such as role theory and social comparison and attribution theory, rather than on the genetic or personality theories. (Author/AM)

Reports a study using 107 women 30 years of age and older enrolled at Kansas State University, Manhattan, which examined their reasons for returning to college, their goals, and concerns. Recommendations are made to home economists for assisting these women at universities with handling dual roles. (TA)

Describes the responses of both instructor and students, a group of homemakers and mothers, to a community services course on The Literature of Women. (JG)

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)

The workplace is slowly adopting supportive work structures and benefit programs to make it more feasible for women to combine work and family. (JOW)

Describes national study of programs for displaced homemakers which received data from only 11 centers for special opportunities for women, despite attempts to contact 166 centers. Reports on a study of displaced homemakers at a women's center of an urban university. Compares results of two studies. Describes needs and characteristics of displaced…

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)