Dual-Earner Families

`As corporations struggle with the development of policy that is appropriate for their global operations, this book should provide some welcome insights into the needs that working family members are expressing on an international scale.' - Work Times

`The book clearly demonstrates the importance of avoiding ethnocentric analyses, while providing crossnational insights about the opportunities, pressures and potential `agendas for change' for dual earners. A most informative and topical volume, it makes interesting reading for those concerned with developments in the family, with changing patterns of work and employment, and with issues of gender and gender equality.' - IIRA Bulletin

`Drawing on material from many parts of the world this is an essential contribution to the debate about gender and role relationships.' - Journal of the Institute of Health Education

`essential reading for those concerned with developments in the family, with changing patterns of work and employment and with issues of gender and gender equality.' - American Sociological Association Newsletter

`This edited collection of 13 articles on the state of dual-earner families in several nations is probably the best available review summary of empirical studies on this topic. Each chapter is filled with data, and the international perspective is informative as it shows how different cultural and economic conditions have produced both the same and unique problems for the wives in this new family structure.... There is a wealth of information here which questions whether the nuclear dual-earner family is an ideal worth pursuit.' - Journal of Marriage and the Family

`this volume performs a valuable function by expanding the scope of existing literature.... This book will be a valuable resource for scholars interested in policy.' - Family Relations

`an important contribution to cross-national research by highlighting similarities and differences of social policies and norms of behaviour, and their impact on shaping women's options.... a valuable contribution to clarifying the current problems and prospects faced by working women, while indicating the wider implications for the public agenda.... relevance to many audiences.' - ndustrial Relations Journal

Introduction - Suzan Lewis Dual-Earner Families in Context PART ONE: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES Culture, Policy, and Women in Dual-Earner Families in Israel - Dafna N Izraeli Middle-Class Dual-Earner Families and Their Support Systems in Urban India - Uma Sekaran Dual-Earner Families in Singapore - Edith C Yuen and Vivien Lim Issues and Challenges Sweden's Sex-Role Scheme and Commitment to Gender Equality - Karin Sandqvist Dual-Earner Families in Hungary - Christine Clason Past, Present and Future Perspectives PART TWO: IN THE FAMILY British Households after Maternity Leave - Julia Brannen and Peter Moss Financial Affairs - Rosanna Hertz Money and Authority in Dual-Earner Marriage Dual-Earner Families in the United States and Adolescent Development - Lucia Albino Gilbert and L Suzanne Dancer Dual-Earner Families and the Care of the Elderly in Japan - Jeanette Taudin Chabot PART THREE: WORK AND THE FAMILY: IMPLICATIONS FOR ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY Beyond 1992 - Helen M Hootsmans Dutch and British Corporations and the Challenge of Dual-Career Couples Can Work Requirements Accommodate to the Needs of Dual-Earner Families? - Alice H Cook Towards Balanced Lives and Gender Equality - Suzan Lewis, Dafna N Izraeli and Helen M Hootsmans