Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "family"
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The Cost of Workplace Flexibility for High-Powered Professionals
(SAGE Publications, 2011)The authors study the pecuniary penalties for family-related amenities in the workplace (e.g., job interruptions, short hours, part-time work, and flexibility during the workday), how women have responded to them, and how ... -
Essays on the Economics of the Family
(2012-07-25)This dissertation contains three essays analyzing how families form and how family members interact. The first chapter studies and connects recent trends in age at marriage and divorce. The second chapter looks within ... -
The Long Road to the Fast Track: Career and Family
(SAGE Publications, 2004)The career and family outcomes of college graduate women suggest that the twentieth century contained five distinct cohorts. The first cohort, graduating college from 1900 to 1920, had either "family or career." The second, ... -
Men and the Ideal Worker Image
(2013-02-11)Current theories of workplace gender inequality hinge upon the widely-shared cultural image of an "ideal worker:" a fully-committed, male employee with no non-work responsibilities that constrain his availability for work. ... -
Stratification in the Early Stages of Mate Choice
(2013-02-14)Sociologists have long studied mate choice patterns to understand the shape of stratification systems. Romantic pairing involves intimacy and trust, and is therefore a prime indicator of the extent to which members of ... -
Women and the Problem of Family in Early African Nationalist History and Historiography
(Taylor and Francis, 2012)Women played critical roles in making African nationalism ideologically and practically possible in South Africa. They not only participated in organisations, institutions, and campaigns that were well-documented by ...