Word: cared
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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UNTIL recently, women alone have had to deal with the conflicts between career and family life. Female students fretted about managing children and careers, while males rested comfortably with the knowledge that they could find wives to take care of their homes...
Studies indicate that almost all American marriages impose a disproportionate burden of housework on the wife. Although the labor force participation of mothers with young children has skyrocketed in recent years--and now exceeds 50 percent--men have not adjusted to these trends by sharing housework and child care...
...attitudes may not be enough at a time when the corporate world revolves around the stereotypical one-earner family. A father who wants to share housework and child care may jeopardize his standing at the firm by taking time off to care for the kids...
Hochschild argues that companies must begin to provide alternatives to 60-hour weeks for fast-track employees, and must provide paternity and maternity leave and child care facilities. "In an age of divorce," she writes, "marriage itself can be at stake...
Such was the case this summer, when officials from Harvard and MIT joined together "to take care of technical problems" in a proposed piece of legislation, meeting with the sponsors of a bill which designed to regulate production of environmentally hazardous waste...