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Women, work, and caregiving
— how do these roles affect women's well-being? | | Author(s) | Carol L Jenkins |
| Journal title | Journal of Women & Aging, vol 9, no 3, 1997 |
| Pages | pp 27-45 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Family care ; Women as carers ; Employees ; Stress ; Social roles ; Sexual equality ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | In the United States (US), families provide the majority of care to the increasing numbers of community dwelling older individuals needing assistance due to functional disabilities. Women, due to traditionally accepted familial and societal roles, often bear a disproportionate share of the responsibility for this caregiving. In this study, data from the 1988 National Survey of Families and Households was used to provide descriptive statistics about women who concurrently fill the roles of homemaker, labour market participant and caregiver. Findings revealed that sixty percent worked 35 or more hours the previous week, while forty percent reported spending at least 10 hours providing care to someone ill or disabled. Self-reported measures of stress for this sample of women are also reported: women who reported facing the demands of multiple roles consistently reported higher levels of stress. The paper concludes with a discussion of policy implications, including the potential of the Family and Medical Leave Act 1993 to provide relief for women facing multiple demands. |
| Accession Number | CPA-980130402 A |
| Classmark | P6:SJ: P6:SH: WK: QNH: TM5: TM8: 3F: 7T |
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