Each marriage bears the footprints of economic and cultural trends which originate far outside marriage..

Most women work one shift at the office or factory and a 'second shift' at home..

The influx of women into paid work and her increased power raise a woman's aspirations and hopes for equal treatment at home. Her lower wage and stat….

Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the child needs. One woman described ….

And the Republican Party especially associates the market with the idea of progress, goodness, family, and points us toward the mall as an answer to ….

In response to our fast-food culture, a 'slow food' movement appeared. Out of hurried parenthood, a move toward slow parenting could be growing. With….

For many of us, work is the one place where we feel appreciated. The things that we long to experience at home - pride in our accomplishments, laught….

Formerly, many men dominated women within marriage. Now, despite a much wider acceptance of women as workers, men dominate women anonymously outside ….

The more we rely on the market, the more hooked we become on its promises: Do you need a tidier closet? A nicer family picture album? Elderly parents….

Three factors--the belief that child care is female work, the failure of ex-husbands to support their children, and higher male wages at work--have t….

The more anxious, isolated and time-deprived we are, the more likely we are to turn to paid personal services. To finance these extra services, we wo….

Children born of married parents in America face a higher risk of seeing them break up than children born of unmarried parents in Sweden..

Paradoxically, those who call for family values also tout the wonders of an unregulated market without observing the subtle cultural links between th….

Most women without children spend much more time than men on housework; with children, they devote more time to both housework andchild care. Just as….

The surface of American life looks smooth, prosperous, peaceful. But underneath, fault-line shifts in family and work life have led us into what some….

Could it be, I wonder, that there is such a thing as a wantologist, someone we can hire to figure out what we want? Have I arrived at some final tell….

The "female culture" has shifted more rapidly than the "male culture"; the image of the go-get 'em woman has yet to be fully matched by the image of ….

People who volunteer at the recycling center or soup kitchen through a church or neighborhood group can come to feel part of something 'larger.' Such….

And were in the middle of a perfect storm. These days, government social services are being bad-mouthed and defunded. The non-profit world is looking….

As long as the "woman's work" that some men do is socially devalued, as long as it is defined as woman's work, as long as it's tacked onto a "regular….

If in previous decades large historic events drew people together and oriented them toward collective action, the recent double trend toward greater ….