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Science 18 February 1983:
Vol. 219. no. 4586, pp. 876 - 879
DOI: 10.1126/science.219.4586.876
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Shift Work Among Dual-Earner Couples with Children

HARRIET B. PRESSER 1 and VIRGINIA S. CAIN 2

1 Department of Sociology, University of Maryland, College Park 20742
2 Department of Sociology, University of Maryland, and Center for Population Research, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Maryland 20205

In a 1980 sample of U.S. nonfarm households with children and with both spouses employed full time, one-third of the couples included at least one spouse who worked other than a regular day shift. In about one-tenth of the couples the spouses worked entirely different shifts with no overlap in hours. These findings are linked to an earlier study which showed a high prevalence of child care by employed fathers whose wives were employed in certain occupations.

Submitted on October 19, 1982
Revised on December 10, 1982


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