Maternal Employment and Children’s Development: Longitudinal Research

✍ Scribed by Adele Eskeles Gottfried (auth.), Adele Eskeles Gottfried, Allen W. Gottfried (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 305
• Series: Springer Studies in Work and Industry
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In a review written in 1979, I noted that there was a paucity of research examining the effects of maternal employment on the infant and young child and also that longitudinal studies of the effects of maternal em­ ployment were needed (Hoffman, 1979). In the last 10 years, there has been a flurry of research activity focused on the mother's employment during the child's early years, and much of this work has been longi­ tudinal. All of the studies reported in this volume are at least short-term longitudinal studies, and most of them examine the effects of maternal employment during the early years. The increased focus on maternal employment during infancy is not a response to the mandate of that review but rather reflects the new employment patterns in the United States. In March 1985, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that 49.4% of married women with children less than a year old were employed outside the home (Hayghe, 1986). This figure is up from 39% in 1980 and more than double the rate in 1970. By now, most mothers of children under 3 are in the labor force.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Maternal Employment and Children’s Development....Pages 3-8
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
Maternal Employment, Family Environment, and Children’s Development....Pages 11-58
The Influences of Maternal Employment across Life....Pages 59-83
Maternal Employment and the Transition to Parenthood....Pages 85-119
Maternal Employment When Children Are Toddlers and Kindergartners....Pages 121-154
Maternal Employment and Sex Typing in Early Adolescence....Pages 155-189
Maternal Separation Anxiety....Pages 191-229
Front Matter....Pages 231-231
Balancing Work and Family Lives....Pages 233-268
Maternal Employment and Children’s Development....Pages 269-287
Back Matter....Pages 289-291

✦ Subjects

Cognitive Psychology; Sexual Behavior; Sociology, general; Social Sciences, general