Career, Family, and the Well-Being of College-Educated Women

Are affluent, well-educated, career-orientated women knowledgeable users of the oral contraceptive pill?

OBJECTIVE Studies have shown poor knowledge of oral contraceptives among women attending government health clinics and women in rural areas. Little is known about the level of contraceptive knowledge in educated, affluent, career-orientated women, although it could be expected that access to information would be greater. The study objective was to describe the profile, knowledge and understandi...

Disordered Eating and Spiritual Well-Being in College-Age Women

The well-being outcomes of career guidance

The potential for career guidance to impact on well-being has received insufficient attention in the UK. There are both conceptual and empirical reasons to expect that the impacts may be positive, but a lack of evidence directly testing this proposition. Career guidance has commonalities with therapeutic counselling suggesting analogous effects, and it promotes positive engagement in work and l...

Career or Family: What Choices Do College Women Have?

1 Much has been written about the problems of combining job and family. Among the best-known scholarly works is Goldin's (1997) study in which she found that only 12-17 percent of college-educated women managed to attain both a career and a family. We reexamine these conclusions, first duplicating Goldin's definitions of career but using a somewhat older group, then using alternate definitions ...

The High Fertility of College Educated Women in Norway

College education has a positive impact on birth rates, net of age and duration since previous birth, according to models estimated separately for second and third births. There are also indications of such effects on first-birth rates, in the upper 20s and 30s. Whereas a high fertility among the better-educated perhaps could be explained by socioeconomic or ideational factors, it might just as...