The dual-career family : a study of two female birth cohorts

• Main Author: Nygren, E. Herbert
• Other Authors: Condran, John G.
• Format: Others
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Mothers > Employment.; Married people > Employment.
• Online Access: http://cardinalscholar.bsu.edu/handle/handle/182594; http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/386511

This thesis examines the dual-career family in two birth cohorts of won-en. It seeks to determine variables, other than economic necessity, that lead to the adoption of this lifestyle. In turn, the study, in part a replication of Hoffman (1963), seeks to note what revisions in the division of household labor occur when wives are employed.The thesis reveals that wives with high educational attainment and wives reared in families with high socio-economic status, working mothers, and highly educated mothers are likely to be working wives. Wives reared as oldest children are also likely to be employed. The results also indicate that a revision in the division of household labor occurs in the dual-career family. Working wives do less of the household tasks and receive more help from other members than do housewives. While a revision in the division of household labor occurs, working wives retain nest of the responsibility of the household and domestic labor tasks.