Combining work and home.
The health consequences for women of combining work outside the home with domestic responsibilities are reviewed. The chapter evaluates role stress as a function of multiple roles and concludes that such juggling promotes women's health by offering increased variety of functions performed as well as increased emotional buffering. The chapter also concludes that women's working outside the home has a positive effect likewise on children and spouses.
Ayers
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Psychology Department, Smith College, Northampton, MA 01063.
Cusack
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M
Crosby
F
F
D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D008393:Marriage; D016487:Parenting; D016387:Women's Health; D014931:Women, Working