Thursday, January 7, 2010

Chapter 11: Relationships and Roles (Adulthood)

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  1. Janet BelskyMarch 7, 2012 at 5:05 PM

    New Table: Cohabitation and Marriage, stereotypes and realities

    Do most cohabitors today live together to decide if they want to get married? What are the main reasons for living together in the 21st century U.S., and do these cohabitation choices differ by social class? Can we analyze the well documented, blanket finding that prior cohabitation is correlated with divorce in a more thoughtful, nuanced way?. Are there exceptions to that other well documented correlation-- that marriage is associated with health and longevity? Stay tuned for answers in this new table exploring these questions in depth.

    New Figure: How do the average annual salaries differ for men and women who major in business, the humanities, psychology, and education? You'll get a revealing breakdown in this figure accompanying my new much more detailed discussion of gender and work described below.
    ........................ Here's what else is new:

    * updated stats on living alone, marriage and single parenthood in the U.S.

    * clear elaboration of how the stats on unmarried morherhood vary by social class in the U.S (but not in Sweden).

    * new information on the traits (or defining characteristics) of happily married elderly couples.

    * more information on the traits (or defining features) that characterize happy couples at any age.

    * more information on step-parent, step child relationships

    * updated information on hands on fathering, including fascinating research suggesting that if a husband is unemployed, or working far less than his spouse, he may do LESS housework and childcare, than if he and his spouse are working full time...

    Actually the work part of this chapter has been extensively revised to include:

    * A totally rewritten section exploring gender differences in work, documenting among other things when married women tend to leave the workforce, the reasons for enduring pay differences between full time working women and men, and showcasing a variety of studies suggesting that 40 years after the women's revolution we still emotionally see career as less central for females.

    * more in depth data on the role of self-efficacy in predicting career success that also emphasizes the role of caring mentors in fostering work self-esteem and success.

    * a new section on unemployment, sensitively exploring its varied emotional consequences and how those effects vary from person to person, by gender, and from nation to nation ( Actually having the efficacious feeling, "its up to me; I can succeed if I try" is correlated with MORE distress when workers are laid off, suggesting there are clear limits to the idea that high self efficacy is an unmitigated positive!) Moreover, the attitudes of the wider culture loom large in how out of work workers feel.. Apart from the actual unemployment statistics in a region, in places where the cultural ethos denigrates being "idle", unemployment hurts the most.

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