Discusses problems of purchase of social services. Reviews literature concerned with cost and quality, including a study of participant satisfaction and cost effectiveness of homemaker services in Utah. (JAC)

Describes the current post-Superwoman era in which women are more free to make choices about homemaking and employment. Women are now secure enough in the workforce that they can quit or work part-time without feeling they have let the sisterhood down. (CB)

This paper describes a self help telephone service for women. The primary focus was the woman within the traditional nuclear family with peer counseling provided by volunteers. The service sees itself as a self help association of women banding together and pooling resources. It has been successful in reaching many women. (NG)

Full-time homemakers (N=55) and 63 full- or part-time outside job holders completed a questionnaire which assessed their level of satisfaction overall and with specific aspects of the homemaker work role or job. It was found that both full-time homemakers and job holders were quite satisfied with the homemaker work role. (Author)

An overview of preretirement program models is presented, dealing with such concerns as finances, health, housing, social and personal factors, and use of time. Specific programs are reviewed, and sources for additional information are identified. (LBH)

A study of the determinants of women marrying early average and late. Charts. Bibliography. (AF)

"A comprehensive one-year secretarial retraining program would undoubtedly be a motivating factor for former secretaries to refresh their skills and return to the world of work. (Author)

This study concluded that by incorporating the concept of role fit one can find women who typify either the image of the happy homemaker or the image of the frustrated homemaker. (CT)

Conducted (N=36) interviews with homemakers whose husbands recently retired from a number of occupations. Investigated positive and negative aspects of retirement and a range of variables associated with life satisfaction and three domains of satisfaction. Found the most consistent correlate of wife's satisfaction was husband's participation in…

Males showed greater self-esteem and predicted higher scores for themselves than females. No sex difference in actual performance was found. Homemakers predicted higher performance for themselves on the verbal test. Females' self-esteem was not related to their husbands' attitudes toward women. (Author)

Husbands of returning women students were interviewed to determine their attitudes and behaviors in response to their wives' new roles. The majority approved of the student role, but only one-fourth provided instrumental help in the home. Outcome anxiety was higher the longer the wife had been in school. (Author)

Examined prevalence of depression in 360 women during pregnancy and after delivery. At both assessments, approximately 25 percent reported elevated levels of depressive symptomatology. Ten percent met diagnostic criteria for depression during pregnancy; 6.8 percent were depressed postpartum. One-half of postpartum depression cases were new onset.…

Examined validity of Maslach Burnout Inventory for assessing parenting burnout among nonworking mothers (N=121) of young children. Found two of three dimensions consistent with original factor structure. Findings suggest that parenting burnout may differ from occupational burnout in depersonalization responses, yet similarities exist in feelings…

Investigated differences in parent-infant interaction in 34 families with employed or homemaker mothers and 1-year-old infants. Infants in the homemaker mothers group smiled and laughed more and engaged more often in mutual looking and object play than infants in the employed mothers group, but only in the mother-father-infant context. (RJC)