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Peer reviewedThornton, Arland; Camburn, Donald – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 1979
The 1970 National Fertility Study was used to investigate relationships between sex role attitudes and the childbearing and labor force participation of women. It was found that the most crucial aspect of working and fertility was the extent to which the woman identified the female role as that of housewife and homemaker. (Author)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Birth Rate, Employed Women, Family (Sociological Unit)
