ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on home environmental aspects of the family setting that are related to maternal employment and children's development. Hence, one of the major goals of this research program is to examine how maternal employment is related to the family setting and how this family setting, in turn, may be related to children's development. It examines maternal employment status in the context of the proximal family environment and examines the short- and long-term impact of maternal employment status on the cognitive, social-emotional, and physical home environment and children's development. The chapter focuses upon maternal employment and children's development through the early childhood years, through age seven, and will also include specific analyses of data available at age eight. In order to understand the intricate network of relationships between maternal employment status on the one hand and children's development on the other, analyses relating educational attitudes, fathers' involvement, and children's development were conducted.
