We've come a long way, maybe: College students' plans for work and family

Spade, Joan Z.; Reese, Carole A.

doi:10.1007/bf00288304

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“…In accordance with the breadwinner-caregiver framework, U.S. men are generally expected to provide for the family while women are primarily responsible for caregiving. Thus, men may pursue more prestigious careers, which are traditionally masculine, because they will pay more than traditionally feminine careers (Spade and Reese 1991;Weisgram et al 2011). Women may pursue traditionally feminine careers, which are less prestigious, because those jobs are perceived to offer greater flexibility for childcare (Baber and Monaghan 1988;DeMartino and Barbato 2003).…”

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“…Women may choose to have children later in life to accommodate greater career advancement or they may choose to have children earlier in order to return to the workforce at a relatively young age (Weer et al 2006). Having children later in life may mean a greater salary with which to support a family or greater job flexibility to accommodate family responsibilities (Miller 2011;Spade and Reese 1991). Choosing not to have children is a historically unpopular option (Baber and Monaghan 1988), although men may be more willing to consider it than women (Weer et al 2006).…”

Section: Planning To Cope With Work-family Conflictmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…This strategy is primarily employed by women, who traditionally bear responsibility for childcare; most men plan to work full-time throughout their careers (Fulcher and Coyle 2011;Spade and Reese 1991;Weinshenker 2006). Working part-time may be an intermediate solution, although this may limit career advancement opportunities.…”

Section: Planning To Cope With Work-family Conflictmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Planning to Have It All: Emerging Adults’ Expectations of Future Work-Family Conflict

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This study assessed college students' anticipated work-family conflict (family-impacting-work and workimpacting-family), and the family-altering and work-altering strategies they plan to employ to relieve that conflict. Undergraduates (N=121) from two universities in the southeastern U.S. were surveyed and differences between the genders were tested. There were no significant gender differences in total conflict, but women anticipated more family-impacting-work conflict, while men anticipated greater work-impacting family conflict. Women planned to employ conflict-relieving strategies more than men did, although the genders did not differ in the mean amount of conflict they anticipated. The type of conflict anticipated did not align with planning for the appropriate conflict-relieving strategy. Women varied in their employment plans while their children are too young for school, although most planned to have their first child by age 30, and to return to a highly prestigious career. Results indicate that emerging adults of both genders may not be realistically planning for their anticipated work-family conflict.

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Section: Planning To Cope With Work-family Conflictmentioning

confidence: 96%

Section: Planning To Cope With Work-family Conflictmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…There is considerable evidence that the motives of young men and women today are not entirely the same, even though both share a combination of work and family goals (Archer, 1985;Arnold, 1993;Florentine, 1988;Spade & Reese, 1991). Women still tend to place more emphasis on family and to leave more space for children in their plans and lives.…”

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Change in goals and values of men and women from early to mature adulthood

Harker

Solomon

1996

J Adult Dev

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Changes in goals and values between early and middle adulthood were investigated using a longitudinal sample of women and their male partners. Measures designed to assess personality changes as described by Gutmann and Jung were coded from open-ended responses to questions about middle-aged subjects' concurrent and recollected goals and values. The findings indicated that both women and men declined in gender-traditional goals and values and increased in individual goals and values. Archival data for women showed that recollections were accurate and that both cohort and personality factors were related to the extent to which individuals' goals and values changed over time.

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“…and sharing the parenting duties with their husbands (Baber & Monaghan, 1988;Knaub, Eversoll, & Voss, 1983;Spade & Reese, 1991). Today, young women appear less concerned about combining career and motherhood (Hoffnung, 2004): They report a strong commitment to educational and career goals for the immediate future along with long-term plans to be mothers.…”

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Influence of motherhood on the implicit academic self-concept of female college students: Distinct effects of subtle exposure to cues and directed thinking

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Despite notable steps toward gender equality and significant changes in gender roles, women continue to face tension between academic aspirations and the more traditional role of caregiver. The goal of the present research was to examine how this conflict might be revealed through assessments of associations that cannot be consciously controlled. In two experiments, college women completed implicit association tasks measuring the strength of their academic identification. Experiment 1 (N=55) showed that implicit academic identification was weaker when motherhood cues were present (rather than absent). In Experiment 2 (N=73), implicit academic identification was weaker when participants reflected on their aspirations to become a college graduate rather than aspirations to be a mother. These findings emphasize the malleability of the implicit academic selfconcept. More precisely, they document that subtle exposure to cues and more deliberate thought processes produce distinct effects. This research contributes to a better understanding of contextual influences on the academic self-concept of college women and their potential implications for academic performances.Do women who pursue a college education still experience tension between academic ambitions and aspirations to start a family? Research conducted in the 1980's indicated that college women expressed some apprehension about harmonizing their career goals and the more traditional role of caregiver, but they hoped to balance these roles by delaying childbirth

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We've come a long way, maybe: College students' plans for work and family

Cited by 60 publications

References 12 publications

Planning to Have It All: Emerging Adults’ Expectations of Future Work-Family Conflict

Planning to Have It All: Emerging Adults’ Expectations of Future Work-Family Conflict

Change in goals and values of men and women from early to mature adulthood

Influence of motherhood on the implicit academic self-concept of female college students: Distinct effects of subtle exposure to cues and directed thinking

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