ABSTRACT
The effects of a working woman's occupational activities on her family are varied and diverse. As sociological studies convincingly demonstrate, solving the problems of working women entails overcoming a number of contradictions. The difficulties stemming from combining work and family duties often have a negative effect on women workers' participation in employment and social activities; they do not participate enough in campaigns to promote innovation and efficiency and in the work of public organizations. Concrete sociological studies are usually restricted to analyses of the structure of the time a person must devote to the household and family. With the development of material production and the service sphere, the changing character of domestic work is seen primarily in the transfer of some of its functions to public institutions for everyday services and in the transformation of other functions.
