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La sfida delle coppie a doppia carriera tra strategie di coping e nodi conflittuali. Un contributo di ricerca
Journal Title: TERAPIA FAMILIARE 
Author/s: Paola Miano, Alessandra Salerno, Alessandra Ciulla, Aluette Merenda, Angela Maria Di Vita 
Year:  2015 Issue: 108 Language: Italian 
Pages:  30 Pg. 29-58 FullText PDF:  213 KB
DOI:  10.3280/TF2015-108002
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Parenthood and the work-family balance, at both the private and social level, lead to an overload of responsibility and to disparity in work to the detriment of women. In dual-career families the work/family conflict affects various aspects; in our research we examined WIF conflict (work to family) and FIW conflict (family to work) in a sample of 483 dual-earner parents. Results from this study underline that the increase of family tasks concerning birth and child care is associated with a traditional work-family balance strategy, that reflects traditional roles differences between public-male-breadwinner and private-feminine-homemaker.
Keywords: Dual-earner families, work to family conflict, family to work conflict, gender, parenthood; couple

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