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The Influence of the Wife's Degree of Work Commitment Upon Some Aspects of Family Organization and Dynamics.
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This paper found that women with high work commitment are more satisfied with their marriage than non-working women; perceive themselves as generally prevailing in decision-making, as giving in in disagreements less often than their husbands and as having more freedom of behavior in and outside their home.Abstract:
The introduction of the variable of work commitment in the analysis helps clarify the nature of the relationship between the wife's working status and different aspects of family structure and dynamics. It has been found that working women with high work commitment (HWC) are more satisfied with their marriage than nonworking women; perceive themselves as generally prevailing in decision-making, as giving in in disagreements less often than their husbands and as having more freedom of behavior in and outside their home. 'On the contrary, women with low work commitment (LWC) perceive by necessity rather than by choice a more "equalitarian" model of family dynamics in which their husbands help them often with many household tasks (while this is not true for HWC women), they jointly compromise in case of disagreements, jointly decide about different family decisions but have a restricted amount of personal freedom in or outside the home.read more
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Family sociology or wives family sociology? A cross-cultural examination of decision-making.
TL;DR: The authors found that wives reported significantly more often than husbands that wives predominated in decision-making and that the family cannot be conceptualized as consisting of converging views precepts beliefs and values of both spouses.
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Working Wives and Marriage Happiness
TL;DR: A woman's freedom to choose among alternative life styles in an important predictor of happiness in marriage if the wife participates in the labor markert out of economic necessity than if she participates by choice.
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Female working roles and fertility
TL;DR: Although there is a slightly greater tendency for employed than for non-employed women to hold attitudes more favorable to small families and family size limitation, the observed differences are slight and not significant statistically.
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A Comparison of Power Structure and Marital Satisfaction in Urban Greek and French Families
TL;DR: In contrast to highly industrialized countries, the Greek husband's possession of a high education, skilled or prestigeful occupation, and high salary tends to diminish rather than increase his authority in the family as discussed by the authors.