Exam 12: Work: Economics, Jobs, and Balancing Family Demands

Trying to achieve a "work-life balance" is an example of which of the following strategies?

President Clinton signed into law in 1996 the

The ability to separate work and home roles is called

Career-primary women

________ and ________ families earned below the median household income.

Two co-workers splitting the same job is called

Discuss how technology, especially in telecommunication, has affected work and family. Give several examples to illustrate your answer.

The decrease in manufacturing jobs in the U.S. is due to ________, ________, and ________ policies.

Women who work full-time earn on average ________ for every dollar men earn.

Fulltime homemaking is________ for many women.

For every 1% increase in unemployment African American communities experienced about a

Corporate welfare exists in the form of tax subsidies and corporate bailouts.

Of families living in poverty in 2009, approximately ________ were headed by women with no husband present.

According to Sigmund Freud, the most important things that provide meaning and purpose to life are ________ and ________.

Contrast the good-provider role and the homemaker role. What are the limitations of the homemaker role? Explain the increase in the number of stay-at-home mothers before the Great Recession.

In 2009, the median household annual income in the U.S. was ________.

American workers have the highest number of vacation days as compared to other industrialized nations.

Which of the following are recommendations for choosing a good daycare?

In Panel 12.1, which country had the most leisure time for its employees?

Generation Xers were born