Entry:
Ferree, Myra Marx, "Class, Housework, and Happiness: Women's Work and Life Satisfaction," Sex Roles, 11 (December, 1984), 1057-1074.
Abstract:
The hypothesis that the ease of housewives' lives is experienced as a benefit compensating for fewer satisfactions in other areas is rejected by the data which indicate that greater time pressure is associated with greater satisfaction for housewives. Working-class women appear to be less satisfied with their lives and no more satisfied with their work than working-class women with jobs or middle-class housewives. Social desirability is found to be the major factor predicting happiness of housewives.
GSS Years:1972-1976
Other Data Sets:
SRC 1971
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GSS Codebook Variables referenced by document: |
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Variable Name |
Variable Label |
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| HAPPY |
GENERAL HAPPINESS |
| LIFE |
IS LIFE EXCITING OR DULL |
| INCOME |
TOTAL FAMILY INCOME |
| EDUC |
HIGHEST YEAR OF SCHOOL COMPLETED |
| MARITAL |
MARITAL STATUS |
| SEX |
RESPONDENTS SEX |
| AGE |
AGE OF RESPONDENT |
| SPPRES |
SPOUSES OCCUPATIONAL PRESTIGE SCORE (1970) |
| PRESTIGE |
RS OCCUPATIONAL PRESTIGE SCORE (1970) |
| SPOCC |
SPOUSE CENSUS OCCUPATION CODE (1970) |
| BABIES |
HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS LESS THAN 6 YRS OLD |
| TEENS |
HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS 13 THRU 17 YRS OLD |
| PRETEEN |
HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS 6 THRU 12 YRS OLD |
| XNORCSIZ |
EXPANDED N.O.R.C. SIZE CODE |
| WRKSTAT |
LABOR FRCE STATUS |
| RUSHED |
HOW OFTEN R FEELS RUSHED |
| BORED |
HOW OFTEN DOES R HAVE EXTRA TIME |
| SPWRKSTA |
SPOUSE LABOR FORCE STATUS |