1.Briefly introduce your subject’s family (Note-you do not have to use their names, but can if you choose. Include how long they have been together, the work each one does, the number and ages of children they have etc)
2.Discuss whether or not the push pull factors that Gerson talked about are evident for the woman in your family. Explain what push pull factors are and provide example from your interview in your discussion.
3.Analyze the blurred boundaries between work and home and discuss any that your subject mentioned. How strongly is your interviewee’s family affect by the time squeeze? Discuss the spillover as discussed by Baca Zinn that impacts your family. (Note: explain what blurred boundaries, the time squeeze and spillover are as well as providing examples from your interview in your discussion)
4.Discuss the gendered division of labor in this family? How does it conform to or conflict with Gerson’s analysis of men’s and women’s changing roles in family? Is there still evidence of “separate spheres” in this family? What gender strategy myths has this family created to describe the management of their children’s activities or even the division of labor to maintain harmony as Baca Zinn describes? (Note: Explain the gendered division of labor, separate spheres and Gerson’s analysis and gender strategy myths as well as examples from your interviewee in your discussion.)
5.What coping strategies is your family using to manage the competing demands of responsibilities to work and family. (Note: Explain what a coping strategy is with some examples from your family.)
6.What family support policies does your family have at the workplace and what 1 policy do they wish they had at work that would help their family. What National Policy would your family like to see enacted to help their family that would likely help all American families. (Note: they must include BOTH policies for their workplace AND government but neither have to be possible at this time. I will compile these and show you what your families said would help them when we do Chapter 14 on Family Policy)
7.Conclude your project by using what you have learned in class to summarize and analyze how the new economic realities are impacting your family. (Note: since this could be another whole project itself, just highlight the important issues for them. How might Skolnick’s analysis of what other countries do help US families as well. Finally, how will this project help you in your profession or life as you move forward interacting with post-modern families?
I don’t need and sources/references please don’t use any.