Marital Disruption among Professional Women
The Timing of Career and Family Events
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2484422 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sharon K Houseknecht (The Ohio State University), Suzanne Vaughan (University of Hartford), Anne Statham Macke (University of Wisconsin–Parkside) |
| Year | 1984 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 273-284 |
| Publication date | 1984-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Problems (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-7791 • E-ISSN: 1533-8533 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/800441 |
| OpenAlex | W2158495507 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 16 |
This paper looks at why highly educated women in the United States have a high rate of separation and divorce, and at what point in their careers their marriages break up. We asked 663 women graduates about the timing of their career and family events and found: marriages usually break up after, not before, women begin graduate school; women who marry before graduate school are more likely to divorce or separate than those who marry after; and women who have children before or during graduate school are more likely to divorce or separate than those who have children after graduate school. We also look at how husbands' support for their wives' careers affects marriages. While the effect of timing of marriage on disruption is mitigated by cooperation and support on the part of husbands, such support does not reduce the likelihood for women who have had children either before or during graduate school. We conclude that marital disruption among highly educated women is caused, at least partly, by the strain that results from their efforts to balance both work and family roles
Balance (ability) · Developmental psychology · Family Leave · Graduate students · Marital status · Pedagogy · Population · Sociology · Work (physics) · Demography · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Psychology · Social Psychology · Work-Family Balance Challenges
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Determinants of Divorce Among Women
The Impact of Singlehood on the Career Patterns of Professional Women
Family-Building Patterns of Professional Women
The Biographical Consequences of Activism
Mental Health and Psychological Functioning of Dual-Career Families
Changes in Work-Family Connections Among Highly Educated Men and Women
Work Scheduling and Family Interaction
Continuous Dual-Career Families
Sex Roles, Women's Work, and Marital Conflict
The continuation of education after marriage among women in the United States
The Dual Career Family
A Multivariate, Multisurvey Study of Marital Happiness
Change in U.S. Women's Sex-Role Attitudes, 1964-1974
A Theory of Role Strain
Scientific Productivity and the Reward Structure of Science
Wives Who Went to College
Combining Marriage and Career
Husbands, Wives, and Careers
Problems of Professional Couples
Sex Roles, Women's Work, and Marital Conflict
Marital Disruption and Higher Education Among Women in the United States
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,35 |
| Citation span | 1986 - 1998 (13) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |