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CONTACT: Virginia Rutter / Framingham State University Sociology
LEANING IN IS NOT THE SAME FOR EVERYONE: New Study on Women in “Men’s Jobs” Provides Discouraging Answers about the Impact of Overwork
APRIL 22—Back in the 1800s, the U.S. labor movement aimed at reducing impossibly long working hours—and succeeded with the Adamson Act in 1916, which gave us the 40-hour work week. A century later, that’s all changed. Research released this month in the journal Gender & Society confirms that “overwork”— working more than 50 hours per week—has become part of the job for many Americans, though with different effects for men and women. Over the past thirty years, hours at work—especially in higher income jobs—have increased, and over one-third of men and nearly one-fifth of women in professions work more than a 50-hour week.
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Council on Contemporary Families Releases New Research on Moms' Depression.
Study Includes a Win-Win Finding for Working Moms AND Stay-at-Home Moms
But Findings Pose a Challenge to Employers and Politicians
CONTACT: Virginia Rutter Framingham State University Sociology
vrutter@gmail.com; 508-626-4863
Chicago, IL, May 6, 2011--New mothers are besieged by conflicting advice about whether or not to work. Some experts warn that staying home leads to social isolation, increasing the risk of a mother's depression. Others counter that working moms are more vulnerable to depression because of losing time with children. Since maternal depression can be bad for children as well as for women's own well-being, it's important to know who is right.
Neither side is right, according to a new briefing paper prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families. The impact of working for pay or staying home on a woman's risk of depression depends on her preferences and on the quality of her job, the researchers find.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- September 1, 2008
CONTACT: Janet Gornick; jgornick@gc.cuny.edu; 212.817.1872
When it comes to giving fathers and mothers equal access to time off from work to care for new babies, the United States gets a "gentleman's C," ranking in the middle of 21 wealthy countries, according to a Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) report presented to the Council on Contemporary Families in time for Labor Day. But when it comes to the amount of time parents are entitled to take and the provision of subsidies that make it affordable for workers to take the time to which they are entitled, the United States lags far behind most countries with comparable levels of income. In "Parental Leave Policies in 21 Countries: Assessing Generosity and Gender Equality," the CEPR researchers found that the U.S. and Australia were the only high-income countries to offer no paid parental leave.
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Read more... [International Report Card on Parenting Policies: U.S. Gets a Gentleman's "C]
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