Exam 10: Gender Issues and Dual Careers
What significant contributing factor in the late 18th century affected the division of labor by gender?
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In the late 1980s, who developed a model designed to delegate household tasks based on interests, aptitudes and time available?
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Identify and briefly discuss some of the issues facing dual career families.
Major Points
The expectations and intentions concerning career and family may be disappointing. Support from a spouse can be diminished by pressures of dealing with family roles as well as work roles.
There can be a constant role conflict in that the unexpected can happen and restrict one's focus on desirable goals.
The question of who is to assume the greatest responsibility for child care can cause conflicts between spouses that is continuous. Both spouses can experience resentfulness.
Rather than support for each other, there can be competition between husband and wife that is usually focused on who has the most significant job and/or career.
In sum, relationship issues across a spectrum of concerns can lead to severe marital problems.
Compare characteristics of African American and Asian American men and identify related career counseling implications.
Attention given to sexual harassment was dramatically increased in the 1990s by which event or events?
What standard was applied as the appropriate legal criterion for determining whether sexual harassment had occurred?
A significant obstacle in the workplace that needs to be removed to promote shared work roles is:
Which influential social movements that culminated in the 1970s brought a large number of women back to the workforce?
Women have made significant progress in which of the following?
Which of the following is associated with intense competition in both women and men?
The tendency to argue about such issues as work schedules, vacation schedules and child care commitments may be an indirect way of addressing what issue?
Flexible work policies designed to help parents include which of the following?
A husband is an electrical engineer and his wife is a physician. Thus, they fit which of the following family categories?
Who suggests that researchers should address the position that men and women are more similar than different?
Choose the inaccurate statement applying to role conflict.
What issues might be discussed with a dual career or dual earner couple?
What barriers still remain for women embarking on a career path beyond the traditional feminine working roles of the past?
Briefly discuss how fear of femininity affects men's career development.
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