Maternal Employment and Children’s Development

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiii

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Maternal Employment and Children’s Development

      • Adele Eskeles Gottfried

      Pages 3-8

3. Longitudinal Studies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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   2. Maternal Employment, Family Environment, and Children’s Development

      • Adele Eskeles Gottfried, Allen W. Gottfried, Kay Bathurst

      Pages 11-58

   3. The Influences of Maternal Employment across Life

      • Jacqueline V. Lerner, Nancy L. Galambos

      Pages 59-83

   4. Maternal Employment and the Transition to Parenthood

      • Margaret Tresch Owen, Martha J. Cox

      Pages 85-119

   5. Maternal Employment When Children Are Toddlers and Kindergartners

      • Wendy A. Goldberg, M. Ann Easterbrooks

      Pages 121-154

   6. Maternal Employment and Sex Typing in Early Adolescence

      • Nancy L. Galambos, Anne C. Petersen, Kathleen Lenerz

      Pages 155-189

   7. Maternal Separation Anxiety

      • Ellen Hock, Debra DeMeis, Susan McBride

      Pages 191-229

4. Maternal Employment

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 231-231

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   2. Balancing Work and Family Lives

      • Diane Hughes, Ellen Galinsky

      Pages 233-268

   3. Maternal Employment and Children’s Development

      • Adele Eskeles Gottfried, Allen W. Gottfried

      Pages 269-287

5. Back Matter

   Pages 289-291

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In a review written in 1979, I noted that there was a paucity of research examining the effects of maternal employment on the infant and young child and also that longitudinal studies of the effects of maternal em­ ployment were needed (Hoffman, 1979). In the last 10 years, there has been a flurry of research activity focused on the mother's employment during the child's early years, and much of this work has been longi­ tudinal. All of the studies reported in this volume are at least short-term longitudinal studies, and most of them examine the effects of maternal employment during the early years. The increased focus on maternal employment during infancy is not a response to the mandate of that review but rather reflects the new employment patterns in the United States. In March 1985, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that 49.4% of married women with children less than a year old were employed outside the home (Hayghe, 1986). This figure is up from 39% in 1980 and more than double the rate in 1970. By now, most mothers of children under 3 are in the labor force.

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• Department of Educational Psychology, California State University, Northridge, Northridge, USA

  Adele Eskeles Gottfried

• Department of Psychology, California State University, Fullerton, Fullerton, USA

  Allen W. Gottfried

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