Being Together, Working Apart: Dual-Career Families and the Work-Life Balance

by Edited by Barbara Schneider , Linda J. Waite

• ISBN13: 9780521607896
• ISBN10: 0521607892
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-03-28
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Despite the fact that most parents are employed, how work affects the lives and well-being of parents and their children remains relatively unexplored. Drawing on a recent study of 500 dual-career families in 8 communities across the U.S., this book focuses on how families achieve or fail to attain work-life balance. With its rich diversity of data, findings, and commentary from an interdisciplinary group of scholars, the book provides a valuable resource for academics, policy makers, and working parents.

Table of Contents

List of figures	ix
List of tables	x
List of contributors	xiv
Preface	xix
Acknowledgments	xxi
Part I Studying working families: an experiential approach
Why study working families?	3	(15)
Barbara Schneider
Linda J. Waite
The design of the 500 Family Study	18	(31)
Lisa Hoogstra
Commentary	39	(8)
Joel M. Hektner
Jiri Zuzanek
Part II Experiences at work and at home
Overview	47	(2)
Jennifer Hanis-Martin
Spending time at work and at home: what workers do, how they feel about it, and how these emotions affect family life	49	(30)
Holly R. Sexton
Commentary	72	(7)
Jerry A. Jacobs
Patricia M. Raskin
Women's intrinsic and extrinsic motivations for working	79	(26)
Sylvia Martinez
Commentary	102	(3)
Phyllis Moen
Momentary emotion and cortisol levels in the everyday lives of working parents	105	(33)
Emma K. Adam
Commentary	134	(4)
Douglas A. Granger
Elizabeth A. Shirtcliff
Emotional transmission between parents and adolescents: the importance of work characteristics and relationship quality	138	(31)
Jennifer L. Matjasko
Amy F. Feldman
Commentary	159	(8)
Reed Larson
Part III Marriage and family
Overview	167	(2)
Alisa C. Lewin
The everyday emotional experiences of husbands and wives	169	(27)
Chi-Young Koh
Commentary	190	(6)
Elaine Wethington
Norval D. Glenn
Couples making it happen: marital satisfaction and what works for highly satisfied couples	196	(33)
Mark R. Nielsen
Commentary	217	(10)
William J. Doherty
Scott M. Stanley
Part IV Making it work at home
Overview	227	(2)
Shira Offer
Measuring the gender gap in household labor: accurately estimating wives' and husbands' contributions	229	(23)
Yun-Suk Lee
Commentary	248	(4)
Glenna Spitze
A strategy for working families: high-level commodification of household services	252	(25)
Carolyn P. Stuenkel
Commentary	273	(4)
Tom Fricke
Television use and communication within families with adolescents	277	(26)
Nicholas P. Dempsey
Commentary	297	(6)
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Robert Kubey
Religiosity, emotional well-being, and family processes in working families	303	(30)
Jennifer A. Schmidt
Commentary	325	(6)
Don S. Browning
Part V Parenting and adolescent development
Overview	331	(2)
Phillip L. Hammack
Adolescents' assessments of parental role management in dual-earner families	333	(32)
Elaine Marchena
Commentary	361	(4)
Rena L. Repetti
Tali Klima
Tamar Kremer-Sadlik
Imagining family roles: parental influences on the expectations of adolescents in dual-earner families	365	(31)
Matthew N. Weinshenker
Commentary	389	(7)
Mick Cunningham
Jennifer Glass
Transmitting educational values: parent occupation and adolescent development	396	(26)
Kimberly S. Maier
Commentary	419	(3)
Jeylan T. Mortimer
Following in their parents' footsteps: how characteristics of parental work predict adolescents' interest in parents' jobs	422	(27)
Ariel Kalil
Judith A. Levine
Kathleen M. Ziol-Guest
Commentary	443	(6)
Nancy L. Galambos
Part VI Lessons to be learned
Achieving work-life balance: strategies for dual-earner families	449	(66)
Kathleen E. Christensen
Technical appendices
Appendix A Obtaining accurate measures of time use from the ESM	461	(22)
Jae-Gea Jeong
Commentary	483	(8)
Suzanne M. Bianchi
Kazuo Yamaguchi
Appendix B Estimating and imputing incomes for middle-class families	491	(13)
Yona Rubinstein
Casey B. Mulligan
Commentary	504	(11)
Lars Lefgren
Ross M. Stolzenberg
References	515	(27)
Index	542