Exam 12: Family Life and Work: a Balancing Act

This occurs when the demands in one domain make it difficult to carry out effective role performance in another domain.

Explain dual-earner couples.

The U.S. Census Bureau documents that some women are compensated less than their male counterparts for the same work. This disparity in earnings is referred to as the _____.

Researchers note that couples who combine work, married life, and family report several benefits. The text lists seven. Name five.

How have working-mom statistics changed over the last 70 years?

Today, many parents are opting for _______, a childcare arrangement in which parents share a babysitter or nanny.

What is the Triangular Theory of Balancing Work and Family?

This occurs when a spouse brings the emotional events and tensions of one environment to the other.

About half of all single-parent households are headed by females.

Research demonstrates that financial education as a part of deployment readiness reduces the frequency of families' money problems.

Since 1990, the average U.S. employee work time has seen an increase of nearly a full week in hours worked per year.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there were less than 100,000 stay-at-home dads in 2006.

When comparing women of different races, ______ consistently earn more.

Some mothers have opted out of the workforce and choose instead to stay at home and nurture their children; this is referred to as _______.

Women tend to be concentrated in certain occupational categories; this is referred to as _____.

Organizations typically define _______ as the hours a person works beyond her or his normal 40-hour per week schedule.

_______ is the government's measure of the family's relative economic and social ranking within a community.

Attorneys, bankers, and doctors are all example of _______ -collar workers.

According to Federal Student Aid guidelines, how is daily interest on student loans calculated?

When family role demands are incompatible with or conflict with the stresses from the work role, _______ occurs.