More Moms Want Part-time? by Robert Drago (5)

Posted 28 July, 2007 in Uncategorized

The PEW Research Center just released “From 1997 to 2007: Fewer Mothers Prefer Full-time Work,” by Paul Taylor, Cary Funk and April Clark. Basically, using a fairly large survey sample, the percentage of employed moms reporting full-time work as ideal fell from 34% to 21% over the period, Viagra Oral Jelly while among non-employed moms the percent wanting full-time employment fell from 24% to 16%. The other big jumps, however, were for employed moms preferring part-time (up from 48% to 60%) and for non-employed moms preferring to stay at home (39% to 48%). Among dads, 12% would prefer part-time, and 16% to stay at home (this seems pretty big by historical standards). So I guess Arlie Hochschild was correct that the gender revolution stalled over issues of care in the ’80’s and ’90’s, and now we’re moving backwards pretty quickly… Who knows, maybe we’ll bring back ‘welfare as we knew it’ and start paying moms to stay home (again :). For the full report, see PEW Report.