Scaling Back: Dual-Earner Couples' Work-Family Strategies  

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Moen, Phyllis ; Becker, Penny Edgell

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Marriage and the Family vol. 61 no. 4 (Nov. 1999), page 995-1007.
Topik: dual-error families; work-families strategies; life course scalling back

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Recent work has focused substantially on one subset of dual-earners, the high-powered two-career couple. We use in-depth interviews with more than 100 people in middle class dual-earner couples in upstate New York to investigate the range of courses' work-family strategies. We find that the majority are not pursuing two high-powered careers but are typically engaged in what we call scaling back-strategies that reduce and restructure the couple's commitment to paid work over the life course, and thereby buffer the family from work encroachment. We identify three Separate scalingback strategies: placing limits; having a one -job, . ,one-career marriage; and trading nil Our findings I support and extend other research by documenting how gender and life-course factors shape workfamily strategies, Wives disproportionately do the i scaling back, although in some couples husbands I and wives trade family and career responsibilities over the life course. Those in the early childrearing phase are most apt to scale back, but a significant proportion of couples at other life stages also use these work-family strategies.

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