Final Project: Mothers at the workplace (Part 1)

Final Project: Mothers at the workplace (Part 1)

Choosing work and family: Poor and Low-income mothers' work family commitments

The basic premise and research question of the study

This research paper evaluates family and work lives of the low-income mothers who have enormous constraints on their choices relating to work-life (Hennessy, 2009). The research question is as follows:

Do cultural and moral forces have an impact on the choices of low income mothers?

Methodology

The study sample includes poor women who were enrolled in six to eight weeks training or workshop programs in order to enter the workforce. Telephone interviews were conducted to get their views on workforce and childcare participation, and family commitments.

Results

Several women said that mothers should not be pressurized to work and should be permitted to be at home in order to take care of children. Few others said that they could depend on financial support from their husbands. They had conventional perspectives about women's and men's roles in families. Other women said that women should do jobs in order to support their families and that provide benefit to them as well as their children.

Conclusion

It can be concluded that family and work choices of mother are neither completely self-interested nor completely self-sacrificing. They get created by children's responsibilities and realities of limited resources.

Home-to-job and job-to-home spillover: the impact of company policies and workplace culture

The basic premise and research question of the study

This research examines the family demands and workplace characteristics on negative job-to-home and home-to-job spillover (Mennino et.al, 2005). The research question is as follows:

How do workplace cultures and company policies impact job-to-home and home-to-job spillover?

Methodology

Three variables that affect negative spillovers are defined. They are the relationship status of the respondent, his household income, and his total number of children.

Results

Firstly, negative job-to-home spillover is ...