FAD Exam 3 Questions and Answers
Household Work - Answer-Unpaid labor requires to maintain family members and a home.
causal feedback loop - Answer-When the workplace impacts within-family interactions and decision
making—and within-family interactions and decision-making affect the workplace.
childcare - Answer-The care and education of children by people other than their parents. Child care
may include before- and after-school care for older children and overnight care when employed parents
must travel, as well as day care for preschool children.
family-friendly workplace policies - Answer-Workplace policies that are supportive of employee efforts
to combine family and work commitments.
Family leave - Answer-A leave of absence from work granted to family members to care for new infants,
newly adopted children, ill children, or aging parents, or to meet similar family needs or emergencies.
Flexible scheduling - Answer-A type of employment scheduling that includes scheduling options such as
job sharing and flextime.
, Flextime - Answer-A policy that permits an employee some flexibility to adjust working hours to suit
family needs or personal preference.
good providers - Answer-A specialized masculine role that emerged in this country around the 1830s
and that emphasized the husband as the only or primary economic provider for his family. The good
provider role had disappeared as an expected masculine role by the 1970s. See also provider role.
involved fathers - Answer-Men who work fewer hours than do childless men in order to spend more
time with their children.
job sharing - Answer-Two people sharing one job.
kin keeping - Answer-Maintaining contact with family members and remembering anniversaries and
birthdays, sending cards, shopping for gifts, and organizing family activities; more frequently done by
women than by men.
labor force - Answer-A social invention that arose with the industrialization of the nineteenth century,
when people characteristically became wage earners, hiring out their labor to someone else.
motherhood penalty - Answer-Negative lifetime impact on earnings for women who raise children.
neotraditional families - Answer-Family that values traditional gender roles and organizes its life in
these terms as far as practicable. Formal male dominance is softened by an egalitarian spirit.
occupational segregation - Answer-The distribution of men and women into substantially different
occupations. Women are overrepresented in clerical and service work, for example, whereas men
dominate the higher professions and the upper levels of management.
provider role - Answer-A term for the family role involving wage work to support the family. May be
carried out by one spouse or partner only or by both.
Household Work - Answer-Unpaid labor requires to maintain family members and a home.
causal feedback loop - Answer-When the workplace impacts within-family interactions and decision
making—and within-family interactions and decision-making affect the workplace.
childcare - Answer-The care and education of children by people other than their parents. Child care
may include before- and after-school care for older children and overnight care when employed parents
must travel, as well as day care for preschool children.
family-friendly workplace policies - Answer-Workplace policies that are supportive of employee efforts
to combine family and work commitments.
Family leave - Answer-A leave of absence from work granted to family members to care for new infants,
newly adopted children, ill children, or aging parents, or to meet similar family needs or emergencies.
Flexible scheduling - Answer-A type of employment scheduling that includes scheduling options such as
job sharing and flextime.
, Flextime - Answer-A policy that permits an employee some flexibility to adjust working hours to suit
family needs or personal preference.
good providers - Answer-A specialized masculine role that emerged in this country around the 1830s
and that emphasized the husband as the only or primary economic provider for his family. The good
provider role had disappeared as an expected masculine role by the 1970s. See also provider role.
involved fathers - Answer-Men who work fewer hours than do childless men in order to spend more
time with their children.
job sharing - Answer-Two people sharing one job.
kin keeping - Answer-Maintaining contact with family members and remembering anniversaries and
birthdays, sending cards, shopping for gifts, and organizing family activities; more frequently done by
women than by men.
labor force - Answer-A social invention that arose with the industrialization of the nineteenth century,
when people characteristically became wage earners, hiring out their labor to someone else.
motherhood penalty - Answer-Negative lifetime impact on earnings for women who raise children.
neotraditional families - Answer-Family that values traditional gender roles and organizes its life in
these terms as far as practicable. Formal male dominance is softened by an egalitarian spirit.
occupational segregation - Answer-The distribution of men and women into substantially different
occupations. Women are overrepresented in clerical and service work, for example, whereas men
dominate the higher professions and the upper levels of management.
provider role - Answer-A term for the family role involving wage work to support the family. May be
carried out by one spouse or partner only or by both.
