This study examined the relationship of gender, sex role orientation, and work attitudes to the domestic division of labor in 141 working couples. Couples completed the Bem Sex Role Inventory and a questionnaire on the performance of household tasks. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) confirmed that working women performed a disproportionately larger…

Utilizing questionnaires, this study investigated the possible relationships among sex role ideology, sex role socialization experiences and motivation for parenthood. Subjects included 174 adopting (the traditional homemaker-mother role) and 126 dual-career parents. Adoptive subjects tended to express traditional sex role ideologies, while…

A random sample of 86 homemakers was included in this study to determine the relationship between the homemakers of Union County's use of recommended budgeting and record keeping practices and selected characteristics. The personal and family characteristics considered were the age of the homemaker, age of the homemaker's husband, and employment…

The purpose of this article is to provide guidelines for counseling families in which the wife/mother is physically disabled. Common psychological reactions to disability are briefly discussed, followed by four goals of a counseling relationship with a family in which the wife/mother is disabled. (Author)

Serveral facets of the homemaker job were analyzed in terms of the dynamic relationship between husband and wife. Husband and wife pairs (N=71) completed a questionnaire which assessed satisfaction with the homemaker job, marital satisfaction, distribution of responsibility for homemaker tasks between husband and wife, and other variables. (Author)

Compared amount of time dual-career husbands and wives spent in housework (total N=1,565) relative to their same-sex counterparts in other dual-earner and single-earner households (N=1,565). Found that dual-career couples were not more egalitarian than other couples in allocation of time to household labor. Discusses consequences for extent of…

Highlights three programs developed by Pennsylvania vocational educators that encourage nontraditional enrollments and meet the special needs of teen parents, adult single parents, and displaced homemakers. (JOW)

Uses the 1973 and 1977 Quality of Employment Surveys to test the assumption that women expend less effort in the workplace because of family and household responsibilities. Concludes that, on average, women allocate more effort to work than do men despite their greater household responsibilities. (Author/GEA)

Investigated reactions of rural housewives (N=95) to their husbands' retirement and factors associated with satisfaction of rural wives during the retirement years. Found a highly consistent relationship between joint decision-making by husband and wife and satisfaction of the wife in retirement. (Author/ABB)

The authors explain how role playing helps home health aides learn to cope with common problems that arise in their work with the homebound elderly and their families. (CT)

Condensed from Continuing Education Programs and Services for Women," published by the Women's Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor, 1971. (Editor)

Women who express the need for new fulfillment outside the home need educational counseling programs designed to help them cope with a world larger than their experience knows, to help them alter their feelings and outlooks, and to help them grow psychologically and professionally. (CJ)

Encourages husband and wife soul-searching to recognize importance of wife's continuing education. Discusses effect on marriage if wife does not keep up educationally with spouse. Portion of address by former president National Association of Women Deans and Counselors, at annual convention, Atlanta, 1969. (CJ)