Beschreibung:
Addresses key issues regarding the nexus of work and family in society. This work provides policy recommendations that aim to help achieve better work-family balance, changes in work-family attitudes, conditions leading to firms' adopting policies to support work-family balance, and studies of child outcomes in dual earner families.
List of contributors. Introduction: work and family (T.L. Parcel). Parental work, family size and social capital effects on early adolescent educational outcomes: the United States and Great Britain compared (M.A. Powell, T.L. Parcel). Parental work in middle childhood: links between employment and the division of housework, parent-child activities, and parental monitoring (A.C. Crouter et al.). The balancing act: young women's expectations and experiences of work and family (P. Aronson). Sources of convergence and divergence in attitudes about work and family roles among women (M. Kozimor-King, K.T. Leicht). Having it all: overall work/life success in two-earner families (P. Moen, Yan Yu).