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Working Wives, Sick Families. (Society).(Brief Article)
Ross M. Stolzenberg, "It's About Time and Gender: Spousal Employment and Health," in American Journal of Sociology (July 2001), University of Chicago Press, P.O. Box 37005, Chicago, Illinois 60637
The increasing participation of women in the workforce has had many consequences. One of them, according to University of Chicago sociologist Ross Stolzenberg, is that when wives work full-time, husbands are more likely to get ill. A wife's decision to work more than 40 hours a week, he argues, has "substantial, statistically significant, negative effects on changes in her husband's health over that time span."
Stolzenberg looked at data from 1986 and 1989 from the Americans' Changing Lives (ACL) survey, a long-running study by the University of Michigan about how Americans live and work. He found that when wives work over 40 hours ...
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