INTEGRATING EDUCATIONAL CAREERS IN WORK AND FAMILY Women's return to school and family life quality

被引:20
作者
Sweet, Stephen [1 ]
Moen, Phyllis [2 ]
机构
[1] Ithaca Coll, Sociol, Ithaca, NY 14850 USA
[2] Univ Minnesota, Sociol, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA
关键词
nontraditional students; ambivalence; gender; work; -; family; marital satisfaction; family satisfaction;
D O I
10.1080/13668800701270166
中图分类号
C91 [社会学];
学科分类号
030301 ; 1204 ;
摘要
Educational careers are shaped by both work and family roles. This study compares middle-class dual-earner couples in which wives were currently returned to school (N = 124) with couples in which the wives had never returned to school (N = 866). These data are combined with additional in-depth interviews with 24 women who returned to school. Our life course perspective highlights why working women return to school, the resistance they experience in redefining family roles, and outcomes on family and marital satisfaction. Gendered family adaptive strategies, made earlier in the life course, are associated with the decisions to return to school and the negative impact this decision has on family life quality.
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页码:231 / 250
页数:20
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