PSYC 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Mother 3, Parental Leave, Telecommuting
30 Mar 2017
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Males: paid work is priority; some house/child work. Females: may have paid work but house/child come first: the majority (over 70%) of married women w/school-age children work. Chores/responsibilities based on preference/interest not traditional gender roles. 40% - 50% of marriages end in divorce in us. Divorced women more than 2x more likely to live in poverty than divorced men. Homemaker (20% of american women are full-time homemakers: recent survey of college students: Only 16% women and 27% men felt that women should be full-time homemakers. Variety of tasks: extensive, repetitious, frustrating, low in prestige. Age of children: a large % of americans believe that women with small children should stay at home. Attitudes toward women who combine motherhood and employment: role of women"s own mother"s employment history- if a woman had a mother who worked, they have more positive attitudes towards working with children.
