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| Gender and relationship differences in caregiving patterns and consequences among employed caregivers | | Author(s) | Margaret B Neal, Berit Ingersoll-Dayton, Marjorie E Starrels |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 37, no 6, December 1997 |
| Pages | pp 804-816 |
| Keywords | Family care ; Women as carers ; Parents over 60 as carers ; Employees ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Gender and relationship differences in caregiving (such as caring for a spouse, parent, parent-in-law, other relative, or friend) were investigated among a sample of employed caregivers in Oregon, United States (US). No gender differences were found in 7 of 13 caregiving tasks, but women devoted more time and were more likely to be primary caregivers. After controlling for other key variables, relationship added modestly to the ability to predict all five measures of caregiving consequences, and gender further added nominally to the ability to predict three of the measures. The findings lend support to the gender-role socialisation hypothesis and suggest the targeting of services to caregivers of spouses and parents, especially female caregivers. |
| Accession Number | CPA-980309411 A |
| Classmark | P6:SJ: P6:SH: P6:BB: WK: 7T |
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