A Typology of Career Wife Roles
提出职业妻子成就角色的类型学,将妻子角色分为家庭主妇、背景支持者、团队合作者、平行工作者和非平行工作者五类,以促进更精确的工作-家庭研究。
As interest in work-family linkages has increased, researchers have focused on the two-pcrson career and dual-career couples. These limited foci have obscured the fact that wives of professionals fill a variety of' achievement roles relative to market production. In order to identify these roles and promote more exact work-family research, this article presents a typology of carccr wife achievement roles. The categories of "homemaker," 'background supporter," "teamworker," "parallel worker," and "non-parallel worker" were derived from the career wife literature and comprise a continuum from lesser to greater direct participation in market production.