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Balancing Act : Motherhood, Marriage, and Employment Among American Women /

Balancing Act draws upon multiple census and survey sources to detail the shifting conditions under which women balance their roles as mothers, wives, and breadwinners. The authors show how women have made great strides in education, where female college enrollment now exceeds that of males, and in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Spain, Daphne (Autor), Bianchi, Suzanne M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [1996]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Childbearing
  • Marriage and living arrangements
  • Education
  • Labor Force Participation and Occupational Attainment
  • Earnings
  • Family well-being: wives and single women
  • Combining employment and family
  • Appendix: measures of fertility.