Dual Career Families
Dual Career Families
The societies in the United States and other societies abroad are enduring many changes at a rather rapid rate. The changes that I am specifically referencing are those involved with altering the norms and cultural traditions among marriages. There is a vast amount of growth among both the husband and wife fulfilling full-time careers. In the past, more traditional marriages existed. The husband would endure a full-time career while the wife stayed at home and completed the majority of the domestic work. The traditional marriage has definitely changed, as it has become more of a norm for both the husband and wife to maintain separate careers.
Research has identified numerous variables that affect the stability of a marriage. The factors that have been identified as affecting marriages and in turn influencing divorce rates include: financial stressors, domestic workload, job stressors, identity strains, and marital interaction time. The results that will be later identified may be of particular interest to couples that are in the early stages of marriage. The research has conveyed that the majority of the negative impacts that affect a marriage and in turn lead to divorce are most common to occur within the first few years of the marriage.
The first of the traditional norms that has taken on dramatic changes in dual career families is the amount of domestic work that each spouse completes. Some would expect that as women acquire their career they would have to take on less of the domestic workload. It might be expected that women's growing earnings will gradually increase their domestic bargaining power, and this in turn will ultimately compel men to share equally in child care and housework (Bittman, England, Sayer, Folbre, and Matheson, 2003). However, research does not concur with this statement. All the available studies identify the dual-burden phenomenon: even full-time employed women still bear a disproportionate responsibility for
The societies in the United States and other societies abroad are enduring many changes at a rather rapid rate. The changes that I am specifically referencing are those involved with altering the norms and cultural traditions among marriages. There is a vast amount of growth among both the husband and wife fulfilling full-time careers. In the past, more traditional marriages existed. The husband would endure a full-time career while the wife stayed at home and completed the majority of the domestic work. The traditional marriage has definitely changed, as it has become more of a norm for both the husband and wife to maintain separate careers.
Research has identified numerous variables that affect the stability of a marriage. The factors that have been identified as affecting marriages and in turn influencing divorce rates include: financial stressors, domestic workload, job stressors, identity strains, and marital interaction time. The results that will be later identified may be of particular interest to couples that are in the early stages of marriage. The research has conveyed that the majority of the negative impacts that affect a marriage and in turn lead to divorce are most common to occur within the first few years of the marriage.
The first of the traditional norms that has taken on dramatic changes in dual career families is the amount of domestic work that each spouse completes. Some would expect that as women acquire their career they would have to take on less of the domestic workload. It might be expected that women's growing earnings will gradually increase their domestic bargaining power, and this in turn will ultimately compel men to share equally in child care and housework (Bittman, England, Sayer, Folbre, and Matheson, 2003). However, research does not concur with this statement. All the available studies identify the dual-burden phenomenon: even full-time employed women still bear a disproportionate responsibility for