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Description

1. xiv, 305 pages; 24 cm

Summary

1. Caroline Bird collates the sociological, psychological and economic histories of two-paycheck families; offers cool assessments of the child-care crisis, changing sex-and-power alignments, and child-bearing timetables. Working wives have lifted millions of families into the middle class, but a still wife cleans the house and cares for the children more often than her husband; private and public accounting assigns his dollars more power than hers, and most chilling of all, the chances of her marriage dissolving rise 2 percent for every additional $1,000 she earns. There are recitations of the experiments of "lifestyle pioneers" trying to balance demands of family and career, and a far-out feminist vision of the future. The author offers an abundance of astute reporting but not a coherent, persuasive feminist philosophy that considers class, opportunity, and traditional values as opposed to purely economic arguments for women's occupational empowerment.

Subject

1. Since 1971
2. Married women > Employment > United States
3. Mothers > Employment > United States
4. Marriage > United States
5. Manners and customs
6. Marriage
7. Married women > Employment
8. Mothers > Employment
9. Berufstätigkeit
10. Ehefrau
11. Vrouwenarbeid
12. Emancipatie
13. economic implication
14. family
15. social implication
16. women workers
17. married women
18. motivation
19. labour force participation
20. consumer expenditure
21. income
22. career pattern
23. arrangement of working time
24. value system
25. homemaker
26. fertility
27. child care
28. sex
29. social role
30. life style
31. conséquences économiques
32. famille
33. conséquences sociales
34. travailleuses
35. femmes mariées
36. taux d'activité
37. dépenses de consommation
38. revenu
39. profil de carrière
40. aménagement du temps de travail
41. système de valeurs
42. femme au foyer
43. fécondité
44. soins aux enfants
45. sexe
46. rôle social
47. mode de vie
48. consecuencias económicas
49. familia
50. consecuencias sociales
51. trabajadoras
52. mujeres casadas
53. motivación
54. tasa de actividad de mano de obra
55. gasto de consumo
56. ingreso
57. modelo de carrera
58. ordenamiento del tiempo de trabajo
59. sistema de valores
60. ama de casa
61. fecundidad
62. cuidado infantil
63. sexo
64. papel social
65. estilo de vida
66. United States > Social life and customs > 1971-
67. United States
68. USA
69. USA
70. Etats-Unis
71. Estados Unidos

Genre/Form

1. reference.
2. référence bibliographique.
3. referencia.

Contents

1. Part one: The two-paycheck revolution -- The exodus to work -- Why some wives work and others don't -- Part two: Home is the new frontier -- The personal, sometimes painful side of it -- Sex and power -- Coping with the dream of a perfect home -- The child-care crisis -- The truth about the money she earns -- Part three: Lifestyle pioneers -- The age thirty bind -- The baby panic -- The two-career collision course -- Part four: The most probable future -- Fewer people -- New kinds of families -- New ways of working.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.