Exam 11: Families and the Work They Do

A living wage ordinance requires employers to pay wages that are above federal or state minimum wage levels, usually ranging from 100 to 130 percent of the poverty line.

By 2009, about 49 percent of married mothers, 55 percent of single mothers, and 70 percent of divorced, separated, or widowed mothers were employed for pay.

How do you purge the rushed and hectic mood at work when you now have to grocery shop with your toddler? How do you play with your children after work, when your boss is still sending you emails in the evening? These questions refer to spillover.

How do nonstandardized work schedules affect family life?

Clifford does not do a lot of housework. He feels that it is not a man's job, and he certainly never saw his father do much around the house. He and his wife Melissa do not argue about housework very often because he is willing to take out the garbage and mow the lawn after he gets home from work, and that seems to be fine with both of them. Which theory would best explain this division of household labor?

Describe the challenges of juggling work and family. Be sure to include the concepts of work-family conflict, role overload, spillover, and describe differences in leisure.

Health care reform legislation was designed to do all of the following EXCEPT:

ECEC is:

Box 11.1, Fixing Social INsecurity, reveals:

Regarding early childhood education and care (ECEC):

A ________ is a place where child care is provided in a nonresidential facility.

Describe and evaluate the idea in the Feature Box, "Fixing Social INsecurity," that describes a way to help families balance work and family. Do you think that most working parents would support this program? Why or why not?

Given the challenges of combining work and family, a growing majority of mothers report that they would prefer to work part-time or not at all.

You just had a baby last month and are going to start back to work soon. What should you be aware of?

Opposition to child labor:

Emma is employed and earns minimum wage at her job. Unless she lives in one of 14 states that have increased the federal minimum wage, she probably earns ___________ per hour.

Mothers with older children are more likely to work than are mothers with younger children, regardless of marital status, race, or ethnicity.

The opening vignette best reveals that:

Compare and contrast the U.S. approach to early childhood education and care (ECEC)with that found in a 3-year study of 12 industrialized, developed nations. What do the findings reveal?

If Akako finds working full-time while raising her two young children so demanding, then why not just work part-time?