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Impact of Women's Off-Farm Employment on Marital Adjustment

Dept. of Family and Child Development, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061

Patricia Kain Knaub

105 Home Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68583-0811

Patricia Wozniak

Dept. of Experimental Statistics, Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803

Peggy S. Draughn

School of Home Economics, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803-4300

Craig W. Smith

110 Leverton Hall, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68583-0809

O'Neal Weeks

Dept. of Family and Child Studies, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506

Literature bearing on the relationship of women's employment status to couples' marital adjustment is reviewed. Three competing hypotheses—status competi tion, status enhancement, and no effects—are discussed in terms of farm couples' current context. Findings from this study of 527 farm couples suggest that at this time, women's off-farm employment might be in competition with traditional farm values, and thus might hinder high-quality marital relationships in farm couples. Additional determinants of marital adjustment in farm couples are dis cussed.

Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal, Vol. 17, No. 1, 47-62 (1988)
DOI: 10.1177/1077727X8801700106


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