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Author: Statham-Macke, Anne
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1. Rhoton, Patricia
Statham-Macke, Anne
Attitudes Toward Women Working: Changes Over Time and Implications for the Labor Force Behaviors of Husbands And Wives
In: Unplanned Careers: The Working Lives of Middle-Aged Women. L.B. Shaw, ed. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1983
Cohort(s): Mature Women, Older Men
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Keyword(s): Husbands, Attitudes; Husbands, Influence; Job Patterns; Sex Roles; Wives, Work

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This chapter examines the relationship among the respondent's attitudes toward women's roles, the effect of those attitudes on work behavior, and the feedback between women's experience and later attitudes. In addition to these issues, for women married to the same spouse throughout the decade, a smaller subset of women who were married to men in the Older Men's Cohort was studied. Instead of using the wife's perception of her husband's attitudes, it was possible to examine the effects of husbands' attitudes on their wives' work activity and the wives' work activity on their husbands' subsequent attitudes. In general, it appears that the impact of attitudes on work activity has decreased over time, while the impact of work activity on attitudes has increased. Husbands' attitudes toward women working are significantly modified by their wives' work. Also, less traditional husbands tend to work fewer hours.
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Rhoton, Patricia and Anne Statham-Macke. "Attitudes Toward Women Working: Changes Over Time and Implications for the Labor Force Behaviors of Husbands And Wives" In: Unplanned Careers: The Working Lives of Middle-Aged Women. L.B. Shaw, ed. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1983