The qualification data of 217 business majors at a large state university were collected just before graduation. The respondents' qualifications were evaluated prior to graduation and they were recontacted 3 months later to determine employment status and job satisfaction. Discriminant analysis of 187 responses was used to determine the relative…

Explores marriages in which marriage and family life are organized around the wife's job or career rather than the husband's (N=46). Found three predictive social conditions: wives having traditionally male jobs, flexibility of husbands' jobs, and absence of children. Describes techniques of deviance neutralization used to minimize costs. (JAC)

Tested whether self-esteem and mature career attitudes related to one another in predicting academic and work achievement for college students (N=174). Analysis showed both constructs related to achievement and supported the thesis that self-esteem facilitates development of mature career attitudes, which in turn promote academic and work…

This document describes the faculty and instructional staff in public and private not-for-profit postsecondary institutions offering an associate's or higher degree in fall 2003. The employment status, race/ethnicity, gender, tenure status, and compensation of faculty and instructional staff are presented by institution type and program area.…

Employment and hours movements are compared with patterns in two preceding recessions. (Editor)

Burden of unemployment shifted from male household heads to female and teenage family members during the 1962-71 period. (MF)

Although employment rose during 1971, unemployment remained close to 6 percent. (Editor)

Analysis of educational levels and earnings associated with specific occupations supported seemingly conflicting explanations of inequality: (1) the job competition theory that education has no effect on equalization of earnings; and (2) the free market theory suggesting an effect of educational level on earnings and of unequal education on…

Examined variables affecting life satisfaction in three categories of married women: those who are presently, formerly, and never employed. Results revealed that, while there are little differences among the three categories in overall life satisfaction, there are significant differences in the variables that influence life satisfaction for each…

Examined the congruency of sex-role attitudes of husbands and wives and assessed how these attitudes are related to the quality of the couple's relationship. The marriages found to have the lowest evaluation of marital quality were those with a traditional husband and a modern wife. (Author/RC)

This paper estimates the influence on working mothers' employment status of children's health problems. Effects are estimated for several different types of families, various groups of health problems, and differing degrees of problem severity. (CT)

Examines the history of public television and decries the existing underrepresentation of minorities in decision-making positions and as local licensees as well as the lack of minority programing. (JMF)

Summarizes findings of a questionnaire sent to people in the field of policy studies. Results show a diverse group in the sense of having a variety of policy-problem interests and a nondiverse group in the sense that a high percentage are political scientists. (Author/KC)

It is reported that research on the socioeconomic achievement process has begun to generate anomalous findings, many of which involve occupational status as conventionally measured. The author proposes a theory of vertical occupational differentiation based on the role activities of occupational incumbents. (Author/RLV)