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The two-paycheck marriage : how women at work are changing life in America : an in-depth report on the great revolution of our times
- Title
- The two-paycheck marriage : how women at work are changing life in America : an in-depth report on the great revolution of our times / by Caroline Bird.
- Author
- Bird, Caroline, 1915-2011
- Publication
- New York : Rawson, Wade Publishers, ©1979.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | HD6055.B45.1979 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xiv, 305 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- 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
- Since 1971
- Married women > Employment > United States
- Mothers > Employment > United States
- Marriage > United States
- Manners and customs
- Marriage
- Married women > Employment
- Mothers > Employment
- Berufstätigkeit
- Ehefrau
- Vrouwenarbeid
- Emancipatie
- economic implication
- family
- social implication
- women workers
- married women
- motivation
- labour force participation
- consumer expenditure
- income
- career pattern
- arrangement of working time
- value system
- homemaker
- fertility
- child care
- sex
- social role
- life style
- conséquences économiques
- famille
- conséquences sociales
- travailleuses
- femmes mariées
- taux d'activité
- dépenses de consommation
- revenu
- profil de carrière
- aménagement du temps de travail
- système de valeurs
- femme au foyer
- fécondité
- soins aux enfants
- sexe
- rôle social
- mode de vie
- consecuencias económicas
- familia
- consecuencias sociales
- trabajadoras
- mujeres casadas
- motivación
- tasa de actividad de mano de obra
- gasto de consumo
- ingreso
- modelo de carrera
- ordenamiento del tiempo de trabajo
- sistema de valores
- ama de casa
- fecundidad
- cuidado infantil
- sexo
- papel social
- estilo de vida
- United States > Social life and customs > 1971-
- United States
- USA
- USA
- Etats-Unis
- Estados Unidos
- Genre/Form
- reference.
- référence bibliographique.
- referencia.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0892560819
- 9780892560813
- LCCN
- 78064807
- OCLC
- ocm04549485
- 4549485
- SCSB-160364
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library