Deck 12: Family Life and Work: a Balancing Act

Question 1

This term refers to discrimination against women in the workplace, specifically in situations where advancement in an organization is stopped.

A) occupational sexism
B) The Lid
C) glass ceiling
D) occupational ceiling

Answer 1

C

Question 2

The _______ method asks the question, What would a person be paid in wage labor for one hour of household work?

A) market alternative cost
B) job equivalent cost
C) opportunity cost
D) equal cost

Answer 2

C

Question 3

This happens when employees are allowed a high degree of independence and self-direction.

A) job status
B) job excellence
C) job complexity
D) job autonomy

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Contemporary couples may have a partner that works 12-hours shifts, four times a week, which are common shifts for nurses, emergency personnel, and firefighters. This is an example of _____.

A) off-hours shifting
B) shift work
C) calendar occupations
D) shift status

Question 5

What percentage of married Native Americans are employed?

A) 50%
B) 75%
C) 35%
D) 85%

Question 6

Immigrant families who are divided because they live in different countries are known as _____.

A) bi-national
B) transnational
C) multilingual
D) multinational

Question 7

_______ is the government's measure of the family's relative economic and social ranking within a community.

A) Sociopolitical status
B) Socioeconomic status
C) Class
D) Economic stature

Question 8

_______ refers to a type or kind of job that offers some kind of prestige in an organization or community.

A) Job status
B) Job excellence
C) Job complexity
D) Job net

Question 9

Immigrant families whose legal citizenship is mixed are known as _____.

A) bi-national
B) transnational
C) multilingual
D) multinational

Question 10

Attorneys, bankers, and doctors are all example of _______ -collar workers.

A) blue
B) white
C) pink
D) high

Question 11

The _______ method estimates the value of household labor by looking at what it would cost in the current market to pay someone to do the household labor the mother performs.

A) market alternative cost
B) job equivalent cost
C) opportunity cost
D) equal cost

Question 12

Organizations typically define _______ as the hours a person works beyond her or his normal 40-hour per week schedule.

A) shift work
B) split shift
C) past time
D) overtime

Question 13

_______ occurs when jobs are at the same time challenging and stimulating.

A) Job status
B) Job excellence
C) Job complexity
D) Job net

Question 14

One of the poorest ethnic groups in America today, Latino families earn, on average, about _______ per year.

A) $18,000
B) $26,000
C) $40,000
D) $52,000

Question 15

Some mothers have opted out of the workforce and choose instead to stay at home and nurture their children; this is referred to as _______.

A) household work
B) homework
C) child-shift
D) home shift

Question 16

Women tend to be concentrated in certain occupational categories; this is referred to as _____.

A) the gender wage gap
B) the glass ceiling
C) occupational rut
D) the pink-collar phenomenon

Question 17

When comparing women of different races, ______ consistently earn more.

A) Blacks
B) Latinos
C) Whites
D) Asians

Question 18

The amount of money families need to manage at the most basic level is called what?

A) general budget
B) base budget
C) basic budget
D) foundation budget

Question 19

The U.S. Census Bureau documents that some women are compensated less than their male counterparts for the same work. This disparity in earnings is referred to as the _____.

A) gender wage gap
B) wealth margin
C) gender pay margin
D) wealth gap

Question 20

Stay-at-home-dads are those who have remained out of the labor force for at least _______ primarily so they can care for their children while their wives work outside of the home.

A) two years
B) 18 months
C) one year
D) six month

Question 21

This occurs when a spouse brings the emotional events and tensions of one environment to the other.

A) time-based conflict
B) strain-based conflict
C) behavior-based conflict
D) work-family spillover/crossover

Question 22

Stay-at-home moms sleep about 10 hours per night.

Question 23

This occurs when the demands in one domain make it difficult to carry out effective role performance in another domain.

A) time-based conflict
B) strain-based conflict
C) behavior-based conflict
D) role strain

Question 24

The Triangular Theory of Balancing Work and Family presents three areas which vie for family attention. Which of the following is NOT one of those three?

A) personal needs
B) recreational needs
C) others' needs
D) work needs and responsibilities

Question 25

The _______ reflects the percentage of people with incomes below the federal government's published poverty line.

A) poverty rate
B) wealth disparity
C) poverty point
D) poverty ration

Question 26

Arab American men and women are well represented in the professional labor force with higher earnings than the national average.

Question 27

This refers to people who are working, but who continue to remain below the poverty line for their family size.

A) blue collar
B) walking poor
C) poverty point
D) working poor

Question 28

Single mothers are "poor" or "near poor," despite the fact that many of them work
full time.

Question 29

Guaranteed access to medical treatment, for all citizens, without regard to their ability to pay is known as _____.

A) social welfare
B) Medicaid
C) universal healthcare
D) health insurance

Question 30

The extent to which family members feel emotionally close and bonded to one another is known as _____.

A) family balance
B) family stasis
C) family cohesion
D) family health

Question 31

When it comes to work and family, ________ can be thought of as the positive psychological state we achieve through regularly meeting our own, others', and work-related needs.

A) balance
B) stasis
C) role-peace
D) silence

Question 32

When family role demands are incompatible with or conflict with the stresses from the work role, _______ occurs.

A) work/family conflict
B) employment conflict
C) interrole conflict
D) work-at-home conflict

Question 33

If paid, stay-at-home-moms would earn $134,121 annually.

Question 34

Since 1990, the average U.S. employee work time has seen an increase of nearly a full week in hours worked per year.

Question 35

Today, many parents are opting for _______, a childcare arrangement in which parents share a babysitter or nanny.

A) co-op care
B) village care
C) nanny share
D) shared care

Question 36

About half of all single-parent households are headed by females.

Question 37

Research demonstrates that financial education as a part of deployment readiness reduces the frequency of families' money problems.

Question 38

White men and women are more likely than any of the other ethnic groups to be employed in professional positions.

Question 39

Decades of research have shown that long work hours have little to do with workers' morale.

Question 40

There is little diversity among single-parent households.

Question 41

Studies have demonstrated that shift work significantly impacts family relationships. How so?

Question 42

Numerous welfare programs were established in President Johnson's "War on Poverty." Name them.

Question 43

Explain dual-earner couples.

Question 44

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there were less than 100,000 stay-at-home dads in 2006.

Question 45

What is the importance of poverty trends?

Question 46

Please explain the Family and Medical Leave Act.

Question 47

How have working-mom statistics changed over the last 70 years?

Question 48

What are some of the negative impacts on the family's emotional and physical health that unemployment brings?

Question 49

In 1940, only 10 percent of children in the United States lived in a home in which the mother worked outside the home.

Question 50

According to Federal Student Aid guidelines, how is daily interest on student loans calculated?

Question 51

Some research further suggests that being married and having children seems to buffer against the negative impacts of unemployment for women, but tends to have the reverse effect for men.

Question 52

Men with higher education levels tend to engage in more household labor.

Question 53

Sociologist Arlie Hochschild referred to the burden of taking on the duel responsibilities of wage-earner and housekeeper as the split-shift.

Question 54

What is occupational sexism? Provide examples.

Question 55

What is the Triangular Theory of Balancing Work and Family?

Question 56

The text lists eight elements of good family well-being. Name four.

Question 57

Define "family policy".

Question 58

What is the Head Start program?

Question 59

What are "residual tasks"?

Question 60

Researchers note that couples who combine work, married life, and family report several benefits. The text lists seven. Name five.

Question 61

Work-family conflict falls into three specific areas. Explain them and provide examples.

Question 62

Research has shown that people can cope well with unemployment and maintain mental health and well-being if they employ certain strategies. If faced with the loss of a job, what are some things healthy families should do?

Question 63

Please explain student loan debt. What is the average debt? How does a student loan work? What are some ways to manage repayment?

Question 64

The text lists ten strategies for family and work balance. List them and choose one to explain. For the one that you choose to explain, please provide examples from your own experience .

Question 65

Coltrane identifies several factors that contribute to the division of household chores. Name and explain each factor.