By Suzanne M. Bianchi, Lynne M. Casper, Rosalind Berkow King

Paintings, family members, future health, and overall healthiness grew out of a convention held in Washington, D.C. in June 2003 on "Workforce/Workplace Mismatch: paintings, kin, health and wellbeing, and healthiness" subsidized via the nationwide Institute of overall healthiness (NIH). The textual content considers a number of dimensions of overall healthiness and wellbeing and fitness for employees and their households, youngsters, and groups. The future health of the person employee is probably going in detail concerning the healthiness of the workers kinfolk. Investigations into the socioeconomic gradient in overall healthiness inside large occupational different types have raised vital questions about the function of particular operating stipulations as opposed to the position of stipulations of employment resembling wages and point of activity safeguard afforded a employee and his/her relatives in affecting future health results. prepared into seven components, this article: *provides an summary of adjustments in paintings and family members time and time use; *dedicates a piece focusing particularly on employers and offices; *explores disciplinary views on paintings, family members, health and wellbeing, and healthiness; *focuses at the such a lot studied paintings and kin nexus, the interrelationship among parental employment, specially maternal employment and the kid's health and wellbeing; *examines gender modifications within the department of work, the impression of marriage on well-being, the moving nature of care-giving all through existence, and the function of labor on numerous well-being and overall healthiness results; *explores occupational wellbeing and fitness literature; and *focuses at the specified work-family matters confronted by way of low-income households and staff in low-wage jobs. This publication appeals to an individual within the fields of psychology, sociology, relations reports, demographics, economics, anthropology, and social paintings.

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The aging of women's families creates caregiving responsibilities that present a unique challenge to balancing work and family. Age discrimination, which can result in the limiting of women's labor market opportunities, can have long-term financial, health, and well-being effects. Retirement issues demonstrate how structured benefit plans influence couples' decisions about whether and when to retire. The authors close by suggesting four directions for future research: more research on cohort variation in balancing work and family; better attention to issues of selection; more life course analysis of the interrelations of work, family, health, and well-being; and continued development of theoretical perspectives on midlife.

The authors discuss the global transformation in the composition of the labor force and urbanization and the effect this has on children and families. They compare the experiences of working parents and their children across six countries: Mexico, Vietnam, Botswana, the United States, Honduras, and Russia. Despite differences among the countries, the authors identify a number of common experiences, such as the negative effect of working conditions on child health outcomes, the impact of the lack of child care on educational and developmental outcomes of older children (who were often responsible for the care of younger siblings), and issues of insufficient parental availability.

Underpressure: Trends and gender differences in the relationship between free time and feeling rushed. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, GA. Milkie, M. , Bianchi, S. , & Robinson, J. P. (2002). The gendered division of childrearing: Ideals, realities, and the relationship to parental well-being. Sex Roles, 47, 21-38. Milkie, M. , Bianchi, S. , & Robinson, J. P. (2004). Parents' feeling about time with children: The influence of employment, family structure, and gender.

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