Middle-aged Married Women Research Articles

중.장년층 기혼여성의 라이프스타일에 따른 주거양식에 관한 연구

Recently, house demander`s needs has diversified in the increasingly by the drastic change in the social environment, changes in family structure and population, the growing interest of living environment. So in the future, housing supply to respond to a variety of housing needs is absolutely necessary to differentiate. The purpose of this study is to analyze the lifestyle types of middle-aged married women with high purchasing power in the current housing market and propose the dwelling style by housing awareness and needs analysis. To collect the data, LOV survey method was used for 528 residents in Seoul and metropolitan area. The data analysis used SPSS PC 14.0 to find the frequency, chi-square, factor analysis, and cluster analysis. The results of analysis are as follows: First, the lifestyle was segmented into four groups such as Conservative goal-achieving lifestyle, Individual self-developing lifestyle, Positive self-trusting lifestyle, Outgoing trend-seeking lifestyle. Second, largely the dwelling style according to lifestyle types was divided into living room-kids room type and living room-kitchen type. Third, there were different preferences on the each type of housing space and the -space by different clusters.

저출산에 대한 심리적 이해:남녀대학생과 중년기 기혼여성을 중심으로

저출산에 대한 심리적 이해:남녀대학생과 중년기 기혼여성을 중심으로

Women's labor force participation and marriage: The case of Korea

In this paper, we examine the relationship between marital status and female labor force participation in Korea, and argue that marriage remains a major obstacle to young Korean women's employment. We find that an average married woman is much less likely (by 40–60%) to participate in the labor force than a single woman in urban Korea. Further investigation into the participation patterns among married women reveals that labor force participation rate (LFPR) varies with husband's occupation and her own age. Lower LFPR among the young married women is explained by demand-side factors, while relatively higher LFPR among the middle-aged married women is mostly explained by the supply-side factors.

Squaring the (‘charmed’) Circle: Normality and Happiness of Middle-aged Married Women in Hong Kong

This study explores how middle-aged married women in Hong Kong deal with their identity as “si-nai” and their life circumstances as they enter mid-life. The empirical data help elucidate the underlying assumptions of certain theorizations of heterosexuality, such as Gayle Rubin's critique of sexuality in terms of ‘good sex’ and ‘bad sex.’ The benefit of a life cycle approach should be recognized, in order to appreciate the situations of middle-aged women, how they may be at a disadvantage due to age, gender and class background and how they feel threatened by younger women who may not be respectable wives and mothers but are in fact high in ‘market value.’ A multi-dimensional framework is called for in order to understand women's lives, within which sexual values or practices that Rubin discusses are but one variable among a host of other dimensions such as gender, class, age, education, and culture.

GETTING READY FOR PARENTHOOD : ATTITUDES TO AND EXPECTATIONS OF HAVING CHILDREN OF A GROUP OF NEWLY‐WEDS

Concern with demographic prediction and projection has ensured a wide variety of studies of family building. These studies range from large‐scale surveys of fertility patterns to a number of in‐depth investigations of pregnancy, childbirth and parenthood. The former include cross‐sectional cohort surveys of fertility expectations, attitudes to family planning and contraceptive behaviours, where detailed reproductive histories have been obtained from a wide range of respondents and analysed by cohorts, based on the year of birth or age of marriage of the informant. However, a major defect in these surveys lies in the collection of accurate retrospective data, for example a middle aged married women having to give an account of her behaviour and/or attitudes when she first married twenty years earlier. The remedy suggested by Ryder and Westhoff is ‘to use comparable classification procedure in a longitudinal study, collecting data periodically from the same families as they progress through their family life cycles. Several such longitudinal surveys have been undertaken and they provide a more detailed picture of the process of family building. This concern with the dynamic aspects of having children is reflected in the more qualitative micro‐studies of pregnancy, childbirth and parenthood.

Influenza vaccination--acceptance in an industrial population.

<b>Smith, J. W. G., Pollard, R., Fletcher, W. B., Barker, R., and Lewis, J. R. (1974).</b><i>British Journal of Industrial Medicine,</i><b>31,</b> 292-297. <b>Influenza vaccination—acceptance in an industrial population.</b> Influenza vaccination was offered in a pharmaceutical factory of approximately 6 000 employees in December 1971 and again in December 1972. The rate of acceptance of vaccination was 42% in 1971 but fell to only 27% in 1972, and was highest among middle-aged married women and lowest among young men. Only 57% of employees who were vaccinated in 1971 and were still employed in 1972 accepted vaccination on the second occasion. Re-vaccination was commoner in staff (64%) than in works employees (52%) in all age and sex categories, and was commoner in older than in younger employees. Only 6% of employees who did not accept vaccination in 1971 accepted the vaccine in 1972. Among new employees who were not in the factory in December 1971 the acceptance rate was 21% in 1972. Between January 1971 and 1972 vaccinated employees left the factory less commonly (15%) than those who had not accepted vaccination (22%). Loss of working time in April to September 1972, i.e., when it is unlikely that influenza would have influenced the returns, was 21% higher among non-vaccinated employees than in vaccinated employees, the difference being due to certified illness of more than three days9 duration. The benefit to be derived from offering influenza vaccination to a factory or office population will depend, among other factors, on the proportion of employees who accept the offer and on the characteristics of this volunteers group. The low take-up rate (27%) observed in the second year suggests that annual influenza vaccination is unlikely at the present time to have a marked effect on absence during outbreak periods. In comparison with the non-volunteers in the present study, the volunteers included a higher proportion of married women, older persons, and staff employees and were less inclined to leave employment, and lost less working time from certificated sickness absence. The value of offering vaccine may therefore be greatest in an established office employing a high proportion of older women. The differences between the volunteers and non-volunteers, particularly the better sickness absence record of the former, indicates that the effect of influenza vaccination cannot reliably be assessed only from a comparison of absence returns between vaccinated and unvaccinated employees.