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FSW Ch. 10

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What Wal-Mart-related example does the book give for how "family members can influence workplace policies and conditions" (p. 251)?
2010: Wal-Mart corp settled the largest sex-discrimination lawsuit in history when it agreed to pay $86 M in damages to over 200,000 Cali female workers.

Wal-Mart had paid them less than the male employees and the females sued for damages.
how pleasures or stresses associated with work affect interaction with family. On the micro level, fam researchers look at this from work situations into family life.
spillover
meeting the demands of one institution conflict with meeting the simultaneous but different demands of another institution (ex. Parent needs to work and to be home to monitor teenager's after school behavior)
role conflict
Married couples: Who's working?

husband and wife: ___%
husband only: ___%
no earner: ___%
o Husband and wife: 54%
o Husband only: 19%
o No earner: 15%
wife only: ___%
husband or wife and other earners: ____%
Wife only: 7%

Husband or wife and other earners: 3%
workplace obstacles involved with being a father:
High powered careers often expect "professional dedication," requiring long hours and availability electronically after hours

A man who gives priority to his family may deal with coworker's resentment or challenges to his masculinity

Some men are reluctant to take advantage of available family benefits

Family ecology perspective: greediness of work, especially for men, has real implications on gender inequality, in that wives may exit the workforce because the husband's careers make their attempts to combine work and family too difficult
How has women's participation in the workforce changed over the past 100+ years?

____ greatly since the beginning of the 19th century

Women's and men's labor force participation _______ between 2005 and 2010 due to the________ that began in 2007.

Trend accelerated during WWI, Great Depression, WWII, slowed until 1945.

Gov told women to go back home once _________, then went back up beginning in 1960.

Went up because men's earnings went down, so families need a second earner. Also the women's movement came about.
Increased

declined
recession

husbands returned from war, then went back up beginning in 1960.

Went up because men's earnings went down, so families need a second earner. Also the women's movement came about
tendency for men and women to be employed in different types of jobs
occupational segregation
Blue collar/physical labor
• More than ____% of men
• Less than ____% of women
30%
6%
Women tend to occupy ______ paying ranks

____% of lawyers, _____% of paralegals/legal assistants

____% of physicians, ____% of nurses
lower

32, 86
32, 91
women's largest and smallest fields?
Largest: professional

Smallest: farming, fishing, forestry, construction, installation, maintenance, repair
men's largest and smallest fields?
Men's largest: professional

Men's smallest: fishing, farming, forestry
difference in earnings between men and women
wage gap
o In 2012, women earned ____ cents for every dollar men made
82
why does the wage gap exist?
Men continue to dominate corporate America.

Some argue that men's earnings are higher because jobs more often held by men are more difficult, require more training, or have less favorable work conditions

Women often contend with employer assumptions that they will opt out of the labor force to take care of her kids → employers less likely to select women for positions with advancement potential
Wage Gap across Racial/Ethnic Groups:

nonwhite Hispanic men:
nonwhite Hispanic women:
Racism blocks the path to management for nonwhite and Hispanic men

Both racism and sexism bloc the path for nonwhite Hispanic women
the fact that motherhood has a significant negative lifetime impact on female income- a situation that creates a long-term gender-earnings gap
Motherhood Penalty
How many wives earn significantly more than their husbands?
___ in ___ (____%)
More than 1 in 4 (29%)
"Despite media interest in professional stay-at-home mothers, the majority of stay-at-home mothers have"... what?
no more than a high school diploma and have relatively low household incomes
involves caring for dependent family members, such as elderly or children, as well as maintaining the family domicile.
unpaid family work
Employed parents put in a ____________ of unpaid family work that amounts to an extra month of work each year
second shift
How would you describe "Work-Family Conflict in the 21st Century" ?

Work demands have _______ over the past several decades. Americans are spending ______ time at work

_____% of US employees work more than 40 hours per week with ____% working between 50 and 60 and _____% working more than that
increased
more

25%
9%
6%
Inability to escape relentless work demands correlates with ____, _____, and _____

Younger employees want more _______ than their predecessors
depression, anxiety, and couple conflict

family time (put fam before work) → Gen X and Gen Y parents
1975: women spent ____ hours/week with kids, men spent ____

2000: women spent _____ hours/week with kids, men spent 33
47, 21

51, 33

Guilt working women feel: when they get to go home they spend time together

Maternal employment not detrimental for kids

What matters most is quality of child rearing (parents/family, childcare)
• More than ____% of women agree that you can be a good mom and have a successful career

• Family income is higher if they have working moms → does this have an effect?

• Parents are spending ____ time with kids overall. why??
90

positive impact on child outcome

more

Mothers used to spend a lot of time on housework, leisure activities, or volunteering. They cut this back and reallocated their time.
What three work-family issues are addressed in the text ?

1.
2.
3.
1. Inadequate economic resources

2. Parental stress due to work-family conflict

3. Persistent gender inequality
When juggling work and family, who/what can help parents?
Depends on where responsibility and problem lies..
Family
1.
2.
3.
Relatives and friends

Time/stress management education

Couple/family therapy
• All of us/system:
• ______: _______
• _____: ________
Employers: provide more family-friendly workplace policies

Gov: provide help with child care, elderly care, more policies/regulations
What's needed to address these issues?

1.
2.
1. Adequate wages → increase minimum wage (should not be expected in near future)

2. Quality, affordable elder and child care
involves an employee's being able to take an extended period of time off from work, either paid or unpaid, for the purpose of caring for their own health needs or for a newborn, a newly adopted or seriously ill child, or for an elderly parent, with the guarantee of a job upon returning.
family leave
1993 Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)

• _____ weeks of unpaid leave
• only for ____ workers
• only for employers with _____ employees
• must work for _______
12
full time
50+
certain length of time
does it help people?
Does not help the majority of workers → some do not meet qualifications or need the money so they cannot do this.

This is bare bones; companies can choose to go beyond the FMLA
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