Married Women Who Work in Early Motherhood
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5632676 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Barbara Thompson, Angela Finlayson |
| Year | 1963 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 150 |
| Publication date | 1963-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1315 • E-ISSN: 1468-4446 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/586777 |
| OpenAlex | W2322882090 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 1 |
r NHE NUMBER of married women workers has increased greatly in Scotland, as in England and Wales, during recent . years.2 It seems likely that this trend will be maintained and even be strengthened. This raises questions of policy for the Government and practical difficuliies for employers, who, as Smith3 has shown, can no longer afford to ignore the domestic responsibilities of their workers. It confronts society with the need to consider whether the employment of married women, especially mothers, is compatible with a satisfactory family life and with the healthy physical and psychological development of children. Many who condemn working mothers quote Bowlby's theory of deprivation,4 seemingly unaware that this has since been modified to distinguish between deprivation and separation.5 The earlier work of Glueck and Glueck,6 which suggested a correlation betweendelinquency and working mothers, has been criticized by Wootton,7 who also dismisses as inconclusive the results of several British studies of juvenile delinquency in which the proportion of working motherQ ranged from 5 to 32 per cent in delinquents and from 7 to 33 per cent in nondelinquents. Several recent studies, notably those of Cartwright and JeXerys, Lewis, Douglas and Blomfield, Andry and Fraser,8 have included data on working mothers, but no evidence has been found of physical neglect nor of intellectual or emotional damage to children directly attributable to maternal employment. The work of Levy, Rose, Goldberg and others9 has indeed suggested that children may be harmed by excessive maternal care or over-protection. The relationship between employment of mothers and the quality of family life is not a simple one and the accumulated evidence suggests that the reasons why a mother goes out to work or stays at home may be more important than the fact that she does so. Her decision will be influenced, not only by her personality and the personalities of other family members, but also by the socio-economic background of the family and much will depend on how the course of action chosen satisfies
Sociology · Women's work · Work (physics · Employment and Welfare Studies · Engineering · Gender Studies · Homelessness and Social Issues · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 1969 - 1988 (20) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |