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Teaching Undergraduates About Work and Family Role Strains
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Sweet, Stephen. 2010. “Teaching Undergraduates About Work and Family Role Strains”. TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology, April. Washington DC: American Sociological Association. https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/teaching-undergraduates-about-work-and-family-role.

Abstract

One core concern in the study of work and family is identifying the strains experienced by working
couples and linking these concerns to work and family policy. Kathleen Christensen and Ralph
Gomory (1999) describe this as the 3:2 problem, the difficulties two people face when they try to
manage three jobs (two in the workplace and one in the...

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Subject Area(s):
Family
Class Level(s):
College 400

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