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Public and Private Families: An Introduction, 3/e
Andrew J. Cherlin, Johns Hopkins University
Work and Families

Internet Exercises

EXERCISE 1

To get a sense of the concerns of working parents, go to one of the web pages designed especially for parents by a major search engine, such as www.excite.com/guide/family/parenting/working_parents. There you will find links to information sources, on-line magazines, advice, message forums, and the like. After examining some of the links, list the topics that seem most important.

EXERCISE 2

Shift work (evening, night, weekend, or rotating work schedules) has become such a common strategy for handling work and childcare that at least one web site is devoted to it: www.shiftworker.com. What are the particular challenges this site focuses on?

EXERCISE 3

Dealing with the family issues of employees has become a speciality for some managers. A clearinghouse for information on work-family issues and problems is www.workfamily.com. Read the tip of the month, scan the list of important studies, and explore other features of this site. If you were an employer using this site, what would you learn about managing workers with work-family conflicts?

EXERCISE 4 - Dealing with Home and Work Life

Visit the site of the Families and Work Institute (http://www.familiesandwork.org/). Download the executive summary of the report, National Study of the Changing Workforce. First, click on Work-Life Research in the left-hand column, and then find the report. Click on Download the 1997 executive summary (you will need an Adobe reader to download). The report details the relationship between home and work issues. Answer the following:

  1. What is the current extent of dual-earner couples?
  2. What are some of the changing roles of mothers and fathers?
  3. What factors impact personal satisfaction at work and at home? What about spillover and burn-out?
  4. If you were an employer, what could you do to assist workers in their attempts to integrate their home and work lives?

EXERCISE 5 - Who's Caring for the Children?

Visit the U.S. Department of Labor's Women's Bureau site (http://www.dol.gov/dol/wb). Click on Child Care/Elder Care on the left. Scroll down to Child Care Data, and clickon Work Related Child Care Statistics. Read the data and answer these questions:

  1. What has been the trend in the need for childcare?
  2. Who are the childcare providers?
  3. What are the trends in employer-provided childcare options?
  4. What do you think would be some long-term solutions to quality childcare?








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