Exam 10: Work and Family

Careers differ from jobs in that they pay significantly more but require less education.

The American Time Use Survey shows that women spend time than men in the care of the household and its members.

Many traditional men view a wife's earning more than they do as a

Men continue to dominate corporate America. In 2010, less than percent of the highest-earning executives in Fortune 500 companies were women.

After WWII, as soldiers came home, the government encouraged women to

The expanding economy needed more workers, and women were drawn into the labor force in significant numbers beginning around .

is a term used when two-earner couples exchange child care and work roles daily or even more often than that.

Mothers of young children

A 2001 survey found found that approximately percent of women agree that one can be a good mother and have a successful career.

Job sharing and flextime are both examples of .

Traditional men are more likely to take on the model as their husband-father role.

The traditionally expected American career path has required giving priority to one's profession while making family secondary.

involves an employee being able to take an extended period of time from work, either paid or unpaid, for maternity, paternity, ill-child and elder-care purposes.

Greg and Bill work for the same company, in the same position. They actually share an office, since Greg works primarily mornings and weekends and Bill works in the afternoons. Greg and Bill's situation is an example of __________.

Sociologist Arlie Hochschild writes that employed parents put in a of unpaid family work that leaves them stressed and drained.

Heterosexual men are the primary breadwinners in about percent of relationships.

involves helping with the daily activities of an aging relative who is chronically ill, disabled, or frail.

The 1993 Family and Medical Leave Act mandates up to of unpaid family leave for workers in companies with at least fifty employees.

Women are more likely than their male partners to remember anniversaries and shop for birthday gifts, activities known as _.

Women often find that "family friendly" occupations