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Ridley, Jeanne Clare, 1981, "Social and Psychological Factors Affecting Fertility, 1941", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ZNAYGN, Harvard Dataverse, V2, UNF:3:MCzbUL8GPZ7hNHsPGKK6VQ== [fileUNF]
This study investigated motivations behind fertility patterns to ascertain the extent to which the number of children couples had deviated from the ideal, and to discover how socioeconomic and psychological factors influenced decisions about the number of children desired. The data were collected in 1941, under the sponsorship of the Council of Soc... |
Kaminer, Wendy; Moore, Elizabeth, 1988, "Women Volunteering, 1984", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/0YMDFQ, Harvard Dataverse, V3
This data set contains open-ended, unstructured interviews with 45 women, described in a book by Kaminer, "Women Volunteering: The Pleasure, Pain, and Politics of Unpaid Work from 1830 to the Present." The interviews explore the relationships among volunteering, feminism, and family life for women in the 1980s. The participants vary in age, ethnici... |
Ybarra, Lea, 1980, "California Valley Oral History Project, 1980", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/5JMCDB, Harvard Dataverse, V3
The purpose of this study was to attempt to fill a gap in knowledge of past and contemporary Chicano family values and beliefs, and to gain a female perspective on the understanding of family life. The sample consisted of 51 Chicanos (22 women and 29 men) who had been living in the San Joaquin Valley for over thirty years. Single interviews were co... |
Ware, Norma C., 1992, "Women in Science Concentrations, 1983-1987", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/OEWKBD, Harvard Dataverse, V2, UNF:3:slKSznFDzVgfMNty8Zg6wQ== [fileUNF]
This survey was designed to study the rate of persistence in science fields by undergraduate students who considered majoring in the sciences during their senior year in high school. The factors associated with this persistence were examined for both women and men. In the summer of 1983, a sample of 300 women and 300 men who had expressed an intere... |
Cynthia Allen, 2018, "Career Plans and Life Patterns of College-Educated Women: A Twenty-Year Follow-up Study, 1983", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/XTEFJ5, Harvard Dataverse, V2, UNF:3:s25LVgaZISEisRfFXZYPxA== [fileUNF]
This study is a follow-up of Barnett's 1963 study (Log# 69) of vocational planning of college women. The purpose of the follow-up was to compare the stated vocational and life plans of three groups of seniors at Radcliffe College with their actual career and life patterns twenty years later. |
Nadelson, Carol C.; Notman, Malkah T., 1983, "Tufts Medical School Alumni, 1980", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/4YM40I, Harvard Dataverse, V3
These data were collected in 1980 to provide a comparison set of data to the materials collected from the Study of Harvard Medical School Alumni (see Notman and Nadelson, 00628). The purpose was to examine specialty choice, experiences in medical education, and patterns of life decisions of medical school alumni. Men and women who had graduated bet... |
Constance, Ahrons, 2001, "Binuclear Family Study, 1979-2000", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/7LI5FH, Harvard Dataverse, V3, UNF:5:tmhUsi69n+r8SBj7q9lbbA== [fileUNF]
This longitudinal study explored how families respond to and manage divorce and remarriage. Participants were assessed on four occasions beginning in 1979 over a period of twenty years. The focus was mainly on positive outcomes following divorce, such as building a binuclear family, quality of the custody and co-parental arrangement, and remarriage... |
Jul 31, 2014 - Original Murray Collection
Henry A. Murray Research Archive; Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library, 2022, "Coping and Adaptation in Older Black Women, 1980", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/VI5RWA, Harvard Dataverse, V2, UNF:3:+6toPglxXDFS2p01aBiVOQ== [fileUNF]
The goal of this study was to describe the coping styles used by a sample of well-educated, achieving, aging African American women and a comparison group of White women to investigate the degree to which they exhibited successful psychological adaptation to aging. The sources of data for the project were oral history transcripts included in the co... |
Smith, Margaret T., 1984, "Mothers: Their Stress and Coping Strategies in Response to Non-Traditional Behavior of Their Children, 1982-1983", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/LMSKXI, Harvard Dataverse, V2
These data were collected in 1982 and 1983 to identify common coping strategies utilized by mothers experiencing stress in relation to their children's actions. In-depth personal interviews were conducted with 32 mothers who defined their children's behavior in the following areas as stressful: substance abuse, divorce, cult or commune membership,... |
Notman, Malkah T.; Nadelson, Carol C., 2022, "Harvard Medical School Alumni, 1978", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/HHB8EN, Harvard Dataverse, V2
This study, begun in March, 1978, was designed to explore the career patterns of women graduates from Harvard Medical School, and to determine the extent to which these patterns differ from those of the school's male graduates. The first group of participants were graduates from 1967-1977. The sample was chosen by selecting the name of each woman a... |
