Responses to the Intrusion of Family Responsibilities in the Workplace

Abstract

This paper examines two of the ways by which working women resolve the competing demands of their household and employment roles. Using data from a large insurance company we first investigate the extent to which men and women take absence days or illness days for the purpose of attending to family obligations, presumably short-term crises. We examine how the pattern of illness day taking varies with age of the employee and with age of the youngest child. We next investigate terminations from the company, using logit and survival methods, and_asse_SS thfi Patent to vdiichgenHerxQIfcigilgeS in reason for departure _£§& be jitoib3ygdjj3j(jji£sa^^ between the responsibilities afyinrV anrl family Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Volume 10, pages 27-61. Copyright © 1991 by J AI Press Inc. AH rights of reproduction in any form reserved. ISBN: 1-55938-403-4