Work and Family

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Work and Family
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• Family is a social group characterized by common
  residence, economic cooperation, and reproduction
  (Murdock)
• Definition challenged with respect to

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• Impacts of work on family
• Impacts of family on work
• Typology of work/family linkages
• Male and female family and work roles
• Policies for combining family and work

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Impact of Work on Family

• Work sets external constraints on family
  organization and activities
• Timing of parenthood
• Split shift and on-call work
• Work experiences affect attitudes, values, and
  personalities of working family member

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Impact of Family on Work

• Families socialize new members of labor force
• Families influence occupational attainment of
  members

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Typology of Work/Family Linkages

• The single provider family
• Husband provider, wife as mother/homemaker
• The Bread Winner Role

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• Blue collar
• Professional/managerial
• Two person career
• Wife provider, husband as father/homemaker

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• Dual provider family with and without children
• Extent of labor market participation of wives
  with children at home

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Percent of Mothers in the Labor Market Children
gt 18 yrs old vs. Children gt 6 yrs old.Bureau of
Labor Statistics 2006
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Number of Hours of Work/Week for Husbands and
Wives (Sayer et al. 2004)
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• Division of labor for the housework/child care
• The second shift at home
• Role conflict
• Role overload

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• Blue collar dual provider family
• Dual career family

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• Single parent families
• Usually female headed
• Lower income
• Pink collar jobs
• Role strain/conflict

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• Childrens employment
• advantages
• disadvantages

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Societal Policies

• Job related adjustments
• Flextime and block scheduling
• Paternity and maternity leave
• Family sick leave
• For children and parents, spouses

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• Non-job related adjustments
• Child care
• Health insurance
• Societal support for parenting