April Brayfield
Biographic Data
| ID | 109357 |
|---|---|
| NAME | April Brayfield |
| GIVEN NAMES | April |
| FAMILY NAME | Brayfield |
| SIGNATURE | BRAYFIELD A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tulane University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 242 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Early childhood socialization: Societal context and childrearing values in Hungary
This article examines the socio-cultural context of early childhood socialization in Hungary. Using a macroscopic lens, we describe the national demographic situation and the social organization of early childhood education and care. Our analysis then shifts to a microscopic focus on parental values and beliefs about the substance of what young children should be learning in different settings. Results from our national survey suggest that Hungar…
Lingering Nuances: Gendered Career Motivations and Aspirations of First-Year Law Students
This study examined students' career motivations and aspirations at the beginning of their legal education and after one semester in law school. Interviews with 29 law students within the first few weeks of their first semester revealed interesting differences in women's and men's long-term, but not short-term, career ambitions: notably women had lower expectations for their career trajectories than did men. Work and family concerns also played a…
Gender Regimes and Cultures of Care: Public Support for Maternal Employment in Germany and the United States
Our research uses nationally representative survey data to empirically document whether U.S. East German, and West German attitudes toward maternal employment have converged over the last decade. Specifically, our research examines to what extent the gender-related attitude regimes vary and have changed in accordance with policy developments in the United States and the two regions of unified Germany between 1991 and 2002. Data from the U.S. Gene…
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Home-to-Job and Job-to-Home Spillover: The Impact of Company Policies and Workplace Culture
We draw on gender theory and neo-institutional theory to examine the impact of workplace characteristics and family demands on negative job-to-home and home-to-job spillover. Our multivariate analyses of the 1997 National Study of the Changing Workforce data indicate that family-supportive workplace cultures reduce negative spillover in both directions, whereas the availability of company policies, such as dependent care benefits and flextime, do…
Museums and Childhood: Negotiating Organizational Lessons
Contemporary museums define educational programs for children as a central and straightforward component of their stated missions. We problematize these programs in our critical discussion of the role of the museum as a source of non-classroom education and the centrality of these lessons in the maintenance of the museum as an organization. Our exploratory study investigates educational programs for children within two traditionally adult-centere…
Society's Child: Identity, Clothing, and Style
Introduction: Is Childhood Disappearing? The Dynastic Child Marital Portraits and Paintings of Children in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art The Public Child: Portraying Parental Power and Wealth Childrens Clothes in Colonial America, 160918 Childrens Clothes in the United States, 181860 Childrens Clothes in Nineteenth-Century England Middle-Class and Other Children: Childrens Clothes in the United States, 18601918 Establishing Societal Standards: Ch…
Job-family Trade-offs: The Multidimensional Effects of Gender
This study investigates how several dimensions of gender, including an individual's sex, gender ideology, and the gender composition of an occupation, influence the accommodations people make in reconciling employment and family life. Using data from the 1996 General Social Survey, we find that women and men sometimes make different kinds of job-family trade-offs, that people in male-dominated occupations make more family trade-offs and fewer emp…
Patterns in Family Policy Preferences in the European Union
This study empirically examines the relationship between national content and individual preferences for national policy priorities related to improving family life within the European Union. Using data from the Eurobarometer survey, logistic regression models indicate that public opinion about nine potential priorities (housing, economic prospects, education, flexible work hours, childcare, tax advantages, child allowances, parental leave, and c…
The Sociology of Childhood
Peer Power: Preadolescent Culture and Identity
An engaging, fascinating, and important book. -Spencer Cahill, University of South Florida An in-depth and often sobering account of the social dynamics of childhood in the 1990s. This important study extends our knowledge of peer culture beyond the walls of classrooms into the day to day dilemmas of middle class children as they seek power and acceptance from their peers. -Donna Eder, author of School Talk An excellent addition to a growing numb…
Life's Greatest Joy: European Attitudes toward the Centrality of Children
National Context and Gender Ideology: Attitudes toward Women's Employment in Hungary and the United States
This study uses a comparative framework to examine the relationship between individual-level attributes and gender-role attitudes in a state-market society (Hungary) and in a capitalist society (the United States). Data from the 1988 International Social Science Program (ISSP) indicate significant differences in attitudes between the two populations. Both women and men in the United States were more supportive of women's employment than their cou…
Women's Work Values in Unified Germany: Regional Differences as Remnants of the Past
This article examines East-West differences in work values among German women, using data from the 1991 German Social Survey (ALLBUS). Our analyses indicate a clear regional gap in work values: East German women are more likely than West German women to consider employment to be very important and to highly value its socioeconomic and social rewards. We contend that this gap exists because of the effect of preunification differences in state ideo…
East-West Differences in Attitudes About Employment and Family in Germany
This article examines East-West differences in attitudes toward the traditional gender division of labor among German women and men, using data from the 1991 German Social Survey (ALLBUS). We test hypotheses about the effects of region and gender, and the interaction of both, in shaping gender-role attitudes. The results indicate that the combination of region and gender produces (1) a similar gender gap in attitudes in both regions, with women i…
Women's and men's subjective class identification from the 1970s to the 1990s
This study examines the subjective class identification of employed married women and men during the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. Using data from the General Social Survey, we test three competing models of subjective class identification: status borrowing, independent status, and status sharing. The findings indicate that the predictors of class identification for both women and men have changed considerably over the past three decades. The model fo…
Juggling Jobs and Kids: The Impact of Employment Schedules on Fathers' Caring for Children
Gender equality in the future depends partly on how women and men combine employment and family responsibilities in the present. The decisions that mothers and fathers make about work and family, especially about how they care for their children, help shape children's cognitive maps, social behavior, and personal expectations. Parents, in everything they do, from the jobs they choose to the way they allocate household chores, provide powerful mod…
A Bargain At Any Price? Child Care Costs and Women′s Employment
Perceptions of Women's Opportunities in the FederalRepublic of Gennany and the UnitedKingdom
This study assesses the impact ofsocio-economic status and family life on perceptions of women's opportunities among German and British women and men. Our theoretical framework links national characteristics to individual characteristics and perceptions. We hypothesize that the influence of work-family status on perceptions of women's opportunities varies by gender and country because of crossnational differences in ideology and policy. Separate …
Child Care, Parental Leave, and the Under 3s: Policy Innovation in Europe. Sheila B. Kamerman , Alfred J. Kahn
Employment Resources and Housework in Canada
Gender, Race, and Cultural Literacy: Consequences for Academic Performance
Juggling Jobs and Kids: The Impact of Employment Schedules on Fathers' Caring for Children
Gender equality in the future depends partly on how women and men combine employment and family responsibilities in the present. The decisions that mothers and fathers make about work and family, especially about how they care for their children, help shape children's cognitive maps, social behavior, and personal expectations. Parents, in everything they do, from the jobs they choose to the way they allocate household chores, provide powerful mod…
Home-to-Job and Job-to-Home Spillover: The Impact of Company Policies and Workplace Culture
We draw on gender theory and neo-institutional theory to examine the impact of workplace characteristics and family demands on negative job-to-home and home-to-job spillover. Our multivariate analyses of the 1997 National Study of the Changing Workforce data indicate that family-supportive workplace cultures reduce negative spillover in both directions, whereas the availability of company policies, such as dependent care benefits and flextime, do…
Employment Resources and Housework in Canada
Job-family Trade-offs: The Multidimensional Effects of Gender
This study investigates how several dimensions of gender, including an individual's sex, gender ideology, and the gender composition of an occupation, influence the accommodations people make in reconciling employment and family life. Using data from the 1996 General Social Survey, we find that women and men sometimes make different kinds of job-family trade-offs, that people in male-dominated occupations make more family trade-offs and fewer emp…
National Context and Gender Ideology: Attitudes toward Women's Employment in Hungary and the United States
This study uses a comparative framework to examine the relationship between individual-level attributes and gender-role attitudes in a state-market society (Hungary) and in a capitalist society (the United States). Data from the 1988 International Social Science Program (ISSP) indicate significant differences in attitudes between the two populations. Both women and men in the United States were more supportive of women's employment than their cou…
Life's Greatest Joy: European Attitudes toward the Centrality of Children
Women's Work Values in Unified Germany: Regional Differences as Remnants of the Past
This article examines East-West differences in work values among German women, using data from the 1991 German Social Survey (ALLBUS). Our analyses indicate a clear regional gap in work values: East German women are more likely than West German women to consider employment to be very important and to highly value its socioeconomic and social rewards. We contend that this gap exists because of the effect of preunification differences in state ideo…
East-West Differences in Attitudes About Employment and Family in Germany
This article examines East-West differences in attitudes toward the traditional gender division of labor among German women and men, using data from the 1991 German Social Survey (ALLBUS). We test hypotheses about the effects of region and gender, and the interaction of both, in shaping gender-role attitudes. The results indicate that the combination of region and gender produces (1) a similar gender gap in attitudes in both regions, with women i…
A Bargain At Any Price? Child Care Costs and Women′s Employment
Gender Regimes and Cultures of Care: Public Support for Maternal Employment in Germany and the United States
Our research uses nationally representative survey data to empirically document whether U.S. East German, and West German attitudes toward maternal employment have converged over the last decade. Specifically, our research examines to what extent the gender-related attitude regimes vary and have changed in accordance with policy developments in the United States and the two regions of unified Germany between 1991 and 2002. Data from the U.S. Gene…
Museums and Childhood: Negotiating Organizational Lessons
Contemporary museums define educational programs for children as a central and straightforward component of their stated missions. We problematize these programs in our critical discussion of the role of the museum as a source of non-classroom education and the centrality of these lessons in the maintenance of the museum as an organization. Our exploratory study investigates educational programs for children within two traditionally adult-centere…
Women's and men's subjective class identification from the 1970s to the 1990s
This study examines the subjective class identification of employed married women and men during the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. Using data from the General Social Survey, we test three competing models of subjective class identification: status borrowing, independent status, and status sharing. The findings indicate that the predictors of class identification for both women and men have changed considerably over the past three decades. The model fo…
Early childhood socialization: Societal context and childrearing values in Hungary
This article examines the socio-cultural context of early childhood socialization in Hungary. Using a macroscopic lens, we describe the national demographic situation and the social organization of early childhood education and care. Our analysis then shifts to a microscopic focus on parental values and beliefs about the substance of what young children should be learning in different settings. Results from our national survey suggest that Hungar…
Lingering Nuances: Gendered Career Motivations and Aspirations of First-Year Law Students
This study examined students' career motivations and aspirations at the beginning of their legal education and after one semester in law school. Interviews with 29 law students within the first few weeks of their first semester revealed interesting differences in women's and men's long-term, but not short-term, career ambitions: notably women had lower expectations for their career trajectories than did men. Work and family concerns also played a…
Gender, Race, and Cultural Literacy: Consequences for Academic Performance
Gender, Race, and Cultural Literacy: Consequences for Academic Performance
Perceptions of Women's Opportunities in the FederalRepublic of Gennany and the UnitedKingdom
This study assesses the impact ofsocio-economic status and family life on perceptions of women's opportunities among German and British women and men. Our theoretical framework links national characteristics to individual characteristics and perceptions. We hypothesize that the influence of work-family status on perceptions of women's opportunities varies by gender and country because of crossnational differences in ideology and policy. Separate …
Child Care, Parental Leave, and the Under 3s: Policy Innovation in Europe. Sheila B. Kamerman , Alfred J. Kahn
Employment Resources and Housework in Canada
Juggling Jobs and Kids: The Impact of Employment Schedules on Fathers' Caring for Children
Gender equality in the future depends partly on how women and men combine employment and family responsibilities in the present. The decisions that mothers and fathers make about work and family, especially about how they care for their children, help shape children's cognitive maps, social behavior, and personal expectations. Parents, in everything they do, from the jobs they choose to the way they allocate household chores, provide powerful mod…
A Bargain At Any Price? Child Care Costs and Women′s Employment
East-West Differences in Attitudes About Employment and Family in Germany
This article examines East-West differences in attitudes toward the traditional gender division of labor among German women and men, using data from the 1991 German Social Survey (ALLBUS). We test hypotheses about the effects of region and gender, and the interaction of both, in shaping gender-role attitudes. The results indicate that the combination of region and gender produces (1) a similar gender gap in attitudes in both regions, with women i…
Women's and men's subjective class identification from the 1970s to the 1990s
This study examines the subjective class identification of employed married women and men during the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. Using data from the General Social Survey, we test three competing models of subjective class identification: status borrowing, independent status, and status sharing. The findings indicate that the predictors of class identification for both women and men have changed considerably over the past three decades. The model fo…
Life's Greatest Joy: European Attitudes toward the Centrality of Children
National Context and Gender Ideology: Attitudes toward Women's Employment in Hungary and the United States
This study uses a comparative framework to examine the relationship between individual-level attributes and gender-role attitudes in a state-market society (Hungary) and in a capitalist society (the United States). Data from the 1988 International Social Science Program (ISSP) indicate significant differences in attitudes between the two populations. Both women and men in the United States were more supportive of women's employment than their cou…
Women's Work Values in Unified Germany: Regional Differences as Remnants of the Past
This article examines East-West differences in work values among German women, using data from the 1991 German Social Survey (ALLBUS). Our analyses indicate a clear regional gap in work values: East German women are more likely than West German women to consider employment to be very important and to highly value its socioeconomic and social rewards. We contend that this gap exists because of the effect of preunification differences in state ideo…
Peer Power: Preadolescent Culture and Identity
An engaging, fascinating, and important book. -Spencer Cahill, University of South Florida An in-depth and often sobering account of the social dynamics of childhood in the 1990s. This important study extends our knowledge of peer culture beyond the walls of classrooms into the day to day dilemmas of middle class children as they seek power and acceptance from their peers. -Donna Eder, author of School Talk An excellent addition to a growing numb…
The Sociology of Childhood
Patterns in Family Policy Preferences in the European Union
This study empirically examines the relationship between national content and individual preferences for national policy priorities related to improving family life within the European Union. Using data from the Eurobarometer survey, logistic regression models indicate that public opinion about nine potential priorities (housing, economic prospects, education, flexible work hours, childcare, tax advantages, child allowances, parental leave, and c…
Society's Child: Identity, Clothing, and Style
Introduction: Is Childhood Disappearing? The Dynastic Child Marital Portraits and Paintings of Children in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art The Public Child: Portraying Parental Power and Wealth Childrens Clothes in Colonial America, 160918 Childrens Clothes in the United States, 181860 Childrens Clothes in Nineteenth-Century England Middle-Class and Other Children: Childrens Clothes in the United States, 18601918 Establishing Societal Standards: Ch…
Job-family Trade-offs: The Multidimensional Effects of Gender
This study investigates how several dimensions of gender, including an individual's sex, gender ideology, and the gender composition of an occupation, influence the accommodations people make in reconciling employment and family life. Using data from the 1996 General Social Survey, we find that women and men sometimes make different kinds of job-family trade-offs, that people in male-dominated occupations make more family trade-offs and fewer emp…
Museums and Childhood: Negotiating Organizational Lessons
Contemporary museums define educational programs for children as a central and straightforward component of their stated missions. We problematize these programs in our critical discussion of the role of the museum as a source of non-classroom education and the centrality of these lessons in the maintenance of the museum as an organization. Our exploratory study investigates educational programs for children within two traditionally adult-centere…
Special Reviewers
Home-to-Job and Job-to-Home Spillover: The Impact of Company Policies and Workplace Culture
We draw on gender theory and neo-institutional theory to examine the impact of workplace characteristics and family demands on negative job-to-home and home-to-job spillover. Our multivariate analyses of the 1997 National Study of the Changing Workforce data indicate that family-supportive workplace cultures reduce negative spillover in both directions, whereas the availability of company policies, such as dependent care benefits and flextime, do…
Gender Regimes and Cultures of Care: Public Support for Maternal Employment in Germany and the United States
Our research uses nationally representative survey data to empirically document whether U.S. East German, and West German attitudes toward maternal employment have converged over the last decade. Specifically, our research examines to what extent the gender-related attitude regimes vary and have changed in accordance with policy developments in the United States and the two regions of unified Germany between 1991 and 2002. Data from the U.S. Gene…
Lingering Nuances: Gendered Career Motivations and Aspirations of First-Year Law Students
This study examined students' career motivations and aspirations at the beginning of their legal education and after one semester in law school. Interviews with 29 law students within the first few weeks of their first semester revealed interesting differences in women's and men's long-term, but not short-term, career ambitions: notably women had lower expectations for their career trajectories than did men. Work and family concerns also played a…
Early childhood socialization: Societal context and childrearing values in Hungary
This article examines the socio-cultural context of early childhood socialization in Hungary. Using a macroscopic lens, we describe the national demographic situation and the social organization of early childhood education and care. Our analysis then shifts to a microscopic focus on parental values and beliefs about the substance of what young children should be learning in different settings. Results from our national survey suggest that Hungar…
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (13 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Economics (10 works) · Demographic economics (8 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (7 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (7 works) · Work-Family Balance Challenges (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works)