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| Age integration as a solution to work-family conflict | | Author(s) | Karyn Loscocco |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 40, no 3, June 2000 |
| Pages | pp 292-301 |
| Keywords | Employment ; The Family ; Integration ; Social roles ; Social pressures ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | People (but mainly women) in the middle stages of life experience conflicting role demands, particularly with regard to child care or caring for an older friend or relative. The solution which the author proposes is a more fully age-integrated society, in which people intersperse education, work, and leisure over the life course. He outlines the flexible employment policies required to support this idea, which are not without disadvantages, but must be resolved: a lower material standard of living; the dominance of work institutions; and gender issues. This is one of a series of eleven essays originally presented at sessions on age integration at both the International Sociological Association meeting in Montreal and the American Sociological Association meeting in San Francisco in 1998, and also adapted from a working paper issued by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) in May 1999. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000717225 A |
| Classmark | WJ: SJ: TO: TM5: TM7: 7T |
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