Two contrasting theories of the relationship between paid employment and women's health
are examined using data from the 1975 and 1976 General Household Survey. The 'role …

Traditionally, research concerned with the relationship between paid employment and
women's experience of illhealth has focused on one or other of two competing explanatory …

The majority of women today simultaneously occupy demanding work and family roles. In
1980, 60 percent of women between 16 and 64 years of age were employed (76). Yet …

Many studies have been published which have examined the relationship between paid
employment and women's health. As employment outside the home is likely to have …

Paid work, unpaid work in the home and social support are important elements of the social
production of health and illness, though their combined effects on both women and men …

Since Durkheim, the notion that particular configurations of social roles may protect against
or increase vulnerability to illness and death has had wide sociological currency. Recent …

Housewives report more chronic illness than employed women, and housewives are more
likely than employed women to rate their health as poor or fair. Poor health can deter a …

Abstract The OPCS Longitudinal Study has been used to follow up women who were
married at the time of the 1971 census, to see if their employment status and responsibility …

Gendered assumptions about working lives are inherent in explanatory models and
empirical analysis of the relationship between work and health. Although some of these …

This study examines the effect of labor force participation, occupational status and domestic
roles on morbidity and mortality among women and men over a 15-year period. The main …