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This 3 page paper briefly examines the differences between one and two career households. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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the household. While having two working people in a family is no longer unusual, there are still households that are "traditional," with a working husband and stay-at-home wife. This paper
examines the differences between one and two career households. Discussion One source says "[O]ne- and two-career married couples, though existing on comparable total family incomes, may be experiencing very different
marital situations" (Wachowiak and Barret, 1980). This is an interesting statement, since it seems that the authors are saying that having both husband and wife working (lets assume the families
discussed are one man/one woman, since earnings levels would probably be substantially higher for two men and much lower for two women) doesnt substantially better the familys financial situation. However,
other things are affected. In this study, the authors examined "the relationship between marital adjustment and the one- versus two-career situation" by comparing the "marital adjustments" the couples made in
these situations (Wachowiak and Barret, 1980). Single-career couples were defined as those in which the wife contributed "less than 33% of the total family income" and two-career couples were defined
as those in which the wife contributed "more than 33% of the total family income" (Wachowiak and Barret, 1980). The two groups of couples completed two martial tests, the "Locke-Wallace
Short Marital Adjustment Test and the Marital Contract Assessment Blank" (Wachowiak and Barret, 1980). The tests are subjective measures of marital satisfaction (Stevens and Stevens, 2005). This means that the
tests are filled out by the couples and reflect their feelings about the relationship; they are not objective or "neutral" measurements. The results reflect some interesting differences. First, the "marriages
of the one-career group were more open and growth-oriented than those of the two-career group" (Wachowiak and Barret, 1980). In addition, both groups "placed equal emphasis on equality and role
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