Exam 10: Work and Family

To be successful, two-earner marriages will require social policy support and

Policy researchers define child care as the full time education and care of children under age __________, and care before and after school for older children.

Which statement about economic resources is accurate?

Outline the origins, ambiguities, conflicts, and current consequences of the economic roles of husbands and wives. In your answer, be sure to use appropriate concepts and include supportive appropriate data or research results.

Women who worked full time in 2014 earned __________ cents for every dollar earned by men.

About ___ percent of children under age 5 whose mothers are employed are cared for by grandparents.

Many couples work outside the home and also have a family. What can parents do in order to be sure they do not shortchange their children?

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

Employees who are allowed some flexibility in deciding when to begin and end work report all EXCEPT which of the following benefits?

__________ work involves the necessary tasks of attending both the emotional needs of all family members and the practical needs of dependent members, as well as maintaining the family domicile.

In which of the following racial/ethnic groups is housework significantly shared by household members other than the wife/mother, even if not by her husband?

The male provider role (and its counterpart, the female homemaker role)lasted into the

In 2015, about ____________ percent of mothers of children under age 15 in married-couple families were stay-at-home mothers, wives of steadily employed men, who were temporarily out of the labor force for the entire year to "take care of home and family."

Today, the statistical norm among married couples is the __________ partnership.

A little over __________ of all employees now work more than 40 hours per week.

The concept of the __________ describes the fact that motherhood has a tremendous negative lifetime impact on earnings.

Historically, black women have been far more likely than _________ to work for wages.

In about ______ of gay male couples with children, one parent stays home.

In 2010, about ____ percent of children ages 9 to 11 whose mothers were employed were in self-care.

Some large corporations demonstrate interest in effecting __________ policies that are supportive of employee efforts to combine family and work commitments.