This study investigated the psychoanalytic hypothesis that intensity of the female castration complex (FCC) is greater in women with a masculine social role than in those with a feminine social role. Ss were normal, collegeeducated women, ages 30-55, divided into 2 groups: 26 career women (CW), unmarried, and in masculine occupations; and 25 homemakers, married, with 2 or more children, and not...

The prevalence of laryngeal pathology in a treatment-seeking population of southwestern Ohio underwent a 15-year reexamination. Relationships between pathology and demographic variables of age, gender, and occupation were investigated. Data were collected from 1,158 new patients seen by participating otolaryngologists between 1996 and 1998. The most frequent pathologies were reflux laryngitis, ...

To understand the agency of Chinese marriage migrant women in Switzerland their everyday life, present article examines reasons why marry European men and post-migratory life Switzerland. Based on interviews with women, discusses gendered representations before migration (as “leftover women” or “divorced women”) to being “foreign wives” after Their from China also resulted a change roles “profe...

This article uses a historical controversy over the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's standard of identity for peanut butter as a site for investigating three topics of high importance for historians of technology, consumption, and food activism: how new industrial food-processing technologies have become regulatory problems; how government, industry, and consumer actors negotiate standards d...

Working moms risk being reduced to one of two subtypes: homemakers—viewed as warm but incompetent, or female professionals—characterized as competent but cold. The current study ( N = 122 college students) presents four important findings. First, when working women become mothers, they trade perceived competence for perceived warmth. Second, working men don’t make this trade; when they become f...

This study investigated the joint effects of spouses' socioeconomic positions on the risk of divorce in Finland. For couples in which both partners were at the lowest educational level, the risk of divorce was lower than could be expected on the basis of the previously documented overall inverse association between each spouse's education and the risk of divorce. Women who were employed or were...