Sally Bould
Biographic Data
| ID | 120921 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sally Bould |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sally |
| FAMILY NAME | Bould |
| SIGNATURE | BOULD S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Delaware |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The cost of a child, mother's employment behavior and economic insecurity in Europe
The past two decades in Western European societies have been marked by a decline in fertility rates together with an increase in women's work-force participation. This has given rise to a massive transformation in traditional patterns of relationships, especially in gender roles and family size. This paper will examine the outcome of the birth of a child and link this outcome to specific family policies in Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Irelan…
Child-care burden and intentions to have a second child: Effects of Perceived Justice in the Division of Child-Care
Fertility rates have fallen dramatically in Western Europe during the last 50 years. Initially explanations were tied to women taking on work obligations and choosing to reduce their fertility. But this explanation is no longer valid in Western Europe because those countries where women are least likely to work, the Mediterranean countries, are also among the countries with the lowest fertility rates. A more recent explanation rests on the availa…
Women as Workers and as Carers under Communism and After: The Case of Bulgaria
This paper reviews the work-family policy of Bulgaria before and after the transition. Before the transition the family policy was one of earner–carer where women were given support to combine work-force participation with childcare and men were at least encouraged to help with carework. After the transition women's access to help with carework became so limited that the family policy, by default, became one of dual earner, but with extremely hig…
The contribution of Tamara Hareven to the understanding of carework
Tamara Hareven was widely recognized for her contribution to the study of the family in the context of economic activity, but she was also a pioneer in developing an understanding of carework, the unpaid work that families, usually women, do for the young, and the dependent elderly. This article reviews her insights from interviews in Manchester and in Kyoto, where she examined family strategies for combining paid work and carework among working …
The Need for International Family Policy: Mothers As Workers and As Carers
This article reviews the policies of the United Nations with regard to families where mothers are working in developing countries. The focus is child care, which is being passed over in United Nations' efforts on gender mainstreaming and empowering women as well as ignored in United Nations' statements on poor children. This is especially problematic because globalization is now drawing poor and working class mothers into the formal labor force w…
Helburn, Suzanne W. and Barbara R. BERGMANN. America’S CHILD Care PROBLEM: The Way Out
Special Reviewers
One able daughter is worth 10 illiterate sons: Reframing the patriarchal family
This research note reports on interviews with 120 mothers employed in garment factories in Bangladesh. These mothers express views on the necessity of being married, having sons, and educating daughters that challenge traditional patriarchal practices. They report that men of their families can no longer guarantee women and children lifetime support in the context of extreme poverty and landlessness. Many of them thus choose to assist their husba…
Invitation to the Life Course: Toward New Understandings of Later Life
Caring Neighborhoods: Bringing Up the Kids Together
This article examines the situation in 47 'caring neighborhoods,' which are defined as those in which the neighbors report working together in caring for the neighborhood children. These suburban neighborhoods are White and predominately middle class. Fictive kin are found in some of these neighborhoods, and in all of the neighborhoods a low value is placed on privacy. These neighborhoods challenge the stereotype of the isolated nuclear family of…
Oldest Old Women: Endangered by Government Cutbacks
This paper analyzes the situation of women 85 and over using the United States Census public use sample for 1990 involving individual census records of 154,008 women and men It provides weighted population estimates. Data is presented on the oldest disability levels for men and women, the level of economic need, living arrangements, and access to a car. International comparisons from the Luxembourg Income study of elderly men and women's poverty …
Encounters With Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America
The Feminization of Poverty in the United States: Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Family Factors
This article delineates the contribution of gender, race, ethnicity, marital, and parental status to the feminization of poverty. Its analysis of recent published and unpublished census data suggests that gender, race, and ethnicity strongly affect poverty rates. However, parenthood interacts with gender in such a way as to affect only women and to affect White women more than Blacks and Hispanics. By examining these sources of poverty separately…
The Oldest Old
INTRODUCTION: R.M. Suzman, K.G. Manton, and D.P. Willis: Introducing the oldest old C.M. Taeuber and I. Rosenwaike: A demographic portrait S.H. Preston: Cohort succession G.C. Myers, B.B. Torrey, and K. Kinsella: An international comparison PART II: PROBLEMS IN STUDYING THE OLDEST OLD: K.G. Manton and R.M. Suzman: Conceptual issues in the design and analysis of national longitudinal surveys W.L. Rodgers and A.R. Herzog: Collecting data: problems …
Familial Caretaking: A Middle-Range Definition of Family in the Context of Social Policy
This article develops the theme of rethinking family as a social form by positing an overall approach that suggests the development of various specific definitions of family, each suitable for the empirical or theoretical exploration of a set of family issues. The development of one example, familial caretaking, a definition of family for use in the context of social policy, will illustrate the potential effectiveness of this approach. The concer…
Critical Perspectives on Aging: The Political and Moral Economy of Growing Old
This unique volume brings together 20 critical essays on aging within the context of the broad social, political, and economic factors that help shape and determine the realities of growing old. Rather than viewing aging in isolation, it explores the social creation of old age dependency and the profound influence of race, gender, and social class on what it means to grow old. It looks too at such topics as the biomedicalization of aging; the rol…
Intergenerational Caregivers of the Oldest Old
No abstract available for this article
Current Perspectives on Aging and the Life Cycle: Vol. 1: Work, Retirement, and Social Policy
Factors influencing the choice of social security early retirement benefits
Development and the Family: Third World Women and Inequality
The traditional capitalist development model with its emphasis upon economic growth has, in the past decade, been severely criticised with respect to its negative effects upon the poor as well as its negative impact upon women. The first and second development decades not only have failed to achieve “economic take off,” but they also have failed to provide that improvement in the status of women which modernisation is reputed to induce. The push …
Unemployment as a Factor in Early Retirement Decisions
Is retiring early a way for older workers to cope with the stigma and discouragement of unemployment? A regression analysis using the National Longitudinal Survey sample of American men age 52-64 in 1973 shows that weeks of previous unemployment is significantly related to early retirement for both Black and White males. This relationship holds when controlling for social security and pension eligibility, assets, health limitations, family respon…
The Stigma of Poverty: A Critique of Poverty Theories and Policies
Female-Headed Families: Personal Fate Control and the Provider Role
This paper examines black and white ftmale heads of families who were interviewed in 1967 in a national longitudinal sample of women, age 30-44, ffor the Center for Human Resource Research. It was hypothesized that the source as well as the amount of income which these women received would affect their sense of personal ffate control. The regression results suggest that poor women and women who must depend upon AFDC, child support and other stigm…
Black and White Families: Factors Affecting the Wife's Contribution to the Family Income Where the Husband's Income Is Low to Moderate
The economic role of the black wife in contrast to her husband's weak economic position is a key assumption in Moynihan's thesis of a black matriarchy. Using the National Longitudinal Survey of women, aged 30 to 44, in 1967, this paper examines the factors affecting the wife's contribution to the family income for both black and white families where the husband's income is below the median of all male-headed families. The results suggest that bla…
The Feminization of Poverty in the United States: Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Family Factors
This article delineates the contribution of gender, race, ethnicity, marital, and parental status to the feminization of poverty. Its analysis of recent published and unpublished census data suggests that gender, race, and ethnicity strongly affect poverty rates. However, parenthood interacts with gender in such a way as to affect only women and to affect White women more than Blacks and Hispanics. By examining these sources of poverty separately…
The cost of a child, mother's employment behavior and economic insecurity in Europe
The past two decades in Western European societies have been marked by a decline in fertility rates together with an increase in women's work-force participation. This has given rise to a massive transformation in traditional patterns of relationships, especially in gender roles and family size. This paper will examine the outcome of the birth of a child and link this outcome to specific family policies in Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Irelan…
Child-care burden and intentions to have a second child: Effects of Perceived Justice in the Division of Child-Care
Fertility rates have fallen dramatically in Western Europe during the last 50 years. Initially explanations were tied to women taking on work obligations and choosing to reduce their fertility. But this explanation is no longer valid in Western Europe because those countries where women are least likely to work, the Mediterranean countries, are also among the countries with the lowest fertility rates. A more recent explanation rests on the availa…
One able daughter is worth 10 illiterate sons: Reframing the patriarchal family
This research note reports on interviews with 120 mothers employed in garment factories in Bangladesh. These mothers express views on the necessity of being married, having sons, and educating daughters that challenge traditional patriarchal practices. They report that men of their families can no longer guarantee women and children lifetime support in the context of extreme poverty and landlessness. Many of them thus choose to assist their husba…
Caring Neighborhoods: Bringing Up the Kids Together
This article examines the situation in 47 'caring neighborhoods,' which are defined as those in which the neighbors report working together in caring for the neighborhood children. These suburban neighborhoods are White and predominately middle class. Fictive kin are found in some of these neighborhoods, and in all of the neighborhoods a low value is placed on privacy. These neighborhoods challenge the stereotype of the isolated nuclear family of…
Familial Caretaking: A Middle-Range Definition of Family in the Context of Social Policy
This article develops the theme of rethinking family as a social form by positing an overall approach that suggests the development of various specific definitions of family, each suitable for the empirical or theoretical exploration of a set of family issues. The development of one example, familial caretaking, a definition of family for use in the context of social policy, will illustrate the potential effectiveness of this approach. The concer…
Unemployment as a Factor in Early Retirement Decisions
Is retiring early a way for older workers to cope with the stigma and discouragement of unemployment? A regression analysis using the National Longitudinal Survey sample of American men age 52-64 in 1973 shows that weeks of previous unemployment is significantly related to early retirement for both Black and White males. This relationship holds when controlling for social security and pension eligibility, assets, health limitations, family respon…
Female-Headed Families: Personal Fate Control and the Provider Role
This paper examines black and white ftmale heads of families who were interviewed in 1967 in a national longitudinal sample of women, age 30-44, ffor the Center for Human Resource Research. It was hypothesized that the source as well as the amount of income which these women received would affect their sense of personal ffate control. The regression results suggest that poor women and women who must depend upon AFDC, child support and other stigm…
Women as Workers and as Carers under Communism and After: The Case of Bulgaria
This paper reviews the work-family policy of Bulgaria before and after the transition. Before the transition the family policy was one of earner–carer where women were given support to combine work-force participation with childcare and men were at least encouraged to help with carework. After the transition women's access to help with carework became so limited that the family policy, by default, became one of dual earner, but with extremely hig…
Invitation to the Life Course: Toward New Understandings of Later Life
Black and White Families: Factors Affecting the Wife's Contribution to the Family Income Where the Husband's Income Is Low to Moderate
The economic role of the black wife in contrast to her husband's weak economic position is a key assumption in Moynihan's thesis of a black matriarchy. Using the National Longitudinal Survey of women, aged 30 to 44, in 1967, this paper examines the factors affecting the wife's contribution to the family income for both black and white families where the husband's income is below the median of all male-headed families. The results suggest that bla…
The Need for International Family Policy: Mothers As Workers and As Carers
This article reviews the policies of the United Nations with regard to families where mothers are working in developing countries. The focus is child care, which is being passed over in United Nations' efforts on gender mainstreaming and empowering women as well as ignored in United Nations' statements on poor children. This is especially problematic because globalization is now drawing poor and working class mothers into the formal labor force w…
Intergenerational Caregivers of the Oldest Old
No abstract available for this article
Factors influencing the choice of social security early retirement benefits
Development and the Family: Third World Women and Inequality
The traditional capitalist development model with its emphasis upon economic growth has, in the past decade, been severely criticised with respect to its negative effects upon the poor as well as its negative impact upon women. The first and second development decades not only have failed to achieve “economic take off,” but they also have failed to provide that improvement in the status of women which modernisation is reputed to induce. The push …
Female-Headed Families: Personal Fate Control and the Provider Role
This paper examines black and white ftmale heads of families who were interviewed in 1967 in a national longitudinal sample of women, age 30-44, ffor the Center for Human Resource Research. It was hypothesized that the source as well as the amount of income which these women received would affect their sense of personal ffate control. The regression results suggest that poor women and women who must depend upon AFDC, child support and other stigm…
Black and White Families: Factors Affecting the Wife's Contribution to the Family Income Where the Husband's Income Is Low to Moderate
The economic role of the black wife in contrast to her husband's weak economic position is a key assumption in Moynihan's thesis of a black matriarchy. Using the National Longitudinal Survey of women, aged 30 to 44, in 1967, this paper examines the factors affecting the wife's contribution to the family income for both black and white families where the husband's income is below the median of all male-headed families. The results suggest that bla…
The Stigma of Poverty: A Critique of Poverty Theories and Policies
Unemployment as a Factor in Early Retirement Decisions
Is retiring early a way for older workers to cope with the stigma and discouragement of unemployment? A regression analysis using the National Longitudinal Survey sample of American men age 52-64 in 1973 shows that weeks of previous unemployment is significantly related to early retirement for both Black and White males. This relationship holds when controlling for social security and pension eligibility, assets, health limitations, family respon…
Development and the Family: Third World Women and Inequality
The traditional capitalist development model with its emphasis upon economic growth has, in the past decade, been severely criticised with respect to its negative effects upon the poor as well as its negative impact upon women. The first and second development decades not only have failed to achieve “economic take off,” but they also have failed to provide that improvement in the status of women which modernisation is reputed to induce. The push …
Factors influencing the choice of social security early retirement benefits
Current Perspectives on Aging and the Life Cycle: Vol. 1: Work, Retirement, and Social Policy
Intergenerational Caregivers of the Oldest Old
No abstract available for this article
Critical Perspectives on Aging: The Political and Moral Economy of Growing Old
This unique volume brings together 20 critical essays on aging within the context of the broad social, political, and economic factors that help shape and determine the realities of growing old. Rather than viewing aging in isolation, it explores the social creation of old age dependency and the profound influence of race, gender, and social class on what it means to grow old. It looks too at such topics as the biomedicalization of aging; the rol…
The Oldest Old
INTRODUCTION: R.M. Suzman, K.G. Manton, and D.P. Willis: Introducing the oldest old C.M. Taeuber and I. Rosenwaike: A demographic portrait S.H. Preston: Cohort succession G.C. Myers, B.B. Torrey, and K. Kinsella: An international comparison PART II: PROBLEMS IN STUDYING THE OLDEST OLD: K.G. Manton and R.M. Suzman: Conceptual issues in the design and analysis of national longitudinal surveys W.L. Rodgers and A.R. Herzog: Collecting data: problems …
Familial Caretaking: A Middle-Range Definition of Family in the Context of Social Policy
This article develops the theme of rethinking family as a social form by positing an overall approach that suggests the development of various specific definitions of family, each suitable for the empirical or theoretical exploration of a set of family issues. The development of one example, familial caretaking, a definition of family for use in the context of social policy, will illustrate the potential effectiveness of this approach. The concer…
The Feminization of Poverty in the United States: Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Family Factors
This article delineates the contribution of gender, race, ethnicity, marital, and parental status to the feminization of poverty. Its analysis of recent published and unpublished census data suggests that gender, race, and ethnicity strongly affect poverty rates. However, parenthood interacts with gender in such a way as to affect only women and to affect White women more than Blacks and Hispanics. By examining these sources of poverty separately…
Encounters With Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America
Oldest Old Women: Endangered by Government Cutbacks
This paper analyzes the situation of women 85 and over using the United States Census public use sample for 1990 involving individual census records of 154,008 women and men It provides weighted population estimates. Data is presented on the oldest disability levels for men and women, the level of economic need, living arrangements, and access to a car. International comparisons from the Luxembourg Income study of elderly men and women's poverty …
Invitation to the Life Course: Toward New Understandings of Later Life
Caring Neighborhoods: Bringing Up the Kids Together
This article examines the situation in 47 'caring neighborhoods,' which are defined as those in which the neighbors report working together in caring for the neighborhood children. These suburban neighborhoods are White and predominately middle class. Fictive kin are found in some of these neighborhoods, and in all of the neighborhoods a low value is placed on privacy. These neighborhoods challenge the stereotype of the isolated nuclear family of…
One able daughter is worth 10 illiterate sons: Reframing the patriarchal family
This research note reports on interviews with 120 mothers employed in garment factories in Bangladesh. These mothers express views on the necessity of being married, having sons, and educating daughters that challenge traditional patriarchal practices. They report that men of their families can no longer guarantee women and children lifetime support in the context of extreme poverty and landlessness. Many of them thus choose to assist their husba…
Helburn, Suzanne W. and Barbara R. BERGMANN. America’S CHILD Care PROBLEM: The Way Out
Special Reviewers
The contribution of Tamara Hareven to the understanding of carework
Tamara Hareven was widely recognized for her contribution to the study of the family in the context of economic activity, but she was also a pioneer in developing an understanding of carework, the unpaid work that families, usually women, do for the young, and the dependent elderly. This article reviews her insights from interviews in Manchester and in Kyoto, where she examined family strategies for combining paid work and carework among working …
The Need for International Family Policy: Mothers As Workers and As Carers
This article reviews the policies of the United Nations with regard to families where mothers are working in developing countries. The focus is child care, which is being passed over in United Nations' efforts on gender mainstreaming and empowering women as well as ignored in United Nations' statements on poor children. This is especially problematic because globalization is now drawing poor and working class mothers into the formal labor force w…
Women as Workers and as Carers under Communism and After: The Case of Bulgaria
This paper reviews the work-family policy of Bulgaria before and after the transition. Before the transition the family policy was one of earner–carer where women were given support to combine work-force participation with childcare and men were at least encouraged to help with carework. After the transition women's access to help with carework became so limited that the family policy, by default, became one of dual earner, but with extremely hig…
The cost of a child, mother's employment behavior and economic insecurity in Europe
The past two decades in Western European societies have been marked by a decline in fertility rates together with an increase in women's work-force participation. This has given rise to a massive transformation in traditional patterns of relationships, especially in gender roles and family size. This paper will examine the outcome of the birth of a child and link this outcome to specific family policies in Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Irelan…
Child-care burden and intentions to have a second child: Effects of Perceived Justice in the Division of Child-Care
Fertility rates have fallen dramatically in Western Europe during the last 50 years. Initially explanations were tied to women taking on work obligations and choosing to reduce their fertility. But this explanation is no longer valid in Western Europe because those countries where women are least likely to work, the Mediterranean countries, are also among the countries with the lowest fertility rates. A more recent explanation rests on the availa…
Sociology (18 works) · Economics (14 works) · Political science (14 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Economic growth (11 works) · Demographic economics (9 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Demography (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works)