Women Study 1984

Achievement and way of life of young women, employment, partnership
and desire for children.
Topics:
Questionnaire group survey of young women and men:
size of place of residence;
personal life planning in the next five years;
general goals in life;
organized social and leisure activities;
political attitudes, attitude to equal rights;
motives for employment;
preferred structuring of personal life;
employment of mother, qualification of parents in childhood;
personal qualification, final grade;
naming job title and employment;
characteristic of employment as mental and physical;
degree of employment, work in shift work;
time for the route to work;
effects of employment, attitude to possible changes;
valuation of personal occupational achievements;
attitude to management activity of women, personal management function;
fulfillment of work demands;
extent of leisure time on work days;
self-image;
satisfaction with different facts;
help by others in co-ordinating occupation and family, personal model for this;
emotion regarding international political situation;
feelings regarding certain circumstances;
attitudes to relationship of women and men and children;
opinion on femininity;
compatibility of babies and occupation;
attitude to sex-specific educational goals;
number of personal children and their ages;
characteristic of the relation to children, satisfaction with their development;
attitude to leadership role of the man;
firm partnership and marital status;
characteristics of partner relation;
child care during illness;
equal rights in partnership;
attitude of partner to employment with baby and family arrangement;
division of labor in one's family;
responsibility with decisions, reasons for dominance of the man;
shift work, income of either partner, secondary income;
reaction of partner in achievement of equal rights;
utilization of social-political measures for families and
influence on planning of occupational and private life;
desire for children;
housing situation;
personal interest or that of partner in work of the DFD
(Demokratischer Frauenbund Deutschland
{Democratic Women's Union of Germany});
membership and functions in social organizations and SED.
Questionnaire mail survey of young women and men:
leisure interests and their achievability in the last two weeks;
household equipment, possession of high-quality consumer goods;
leisure desire;
measures to compensate burdening circumstances;
expectations of a good friend (male or female);
presence of such a good friend;
knowledge of books about women;
attitude to long-term relationship;
willingness to acqure manual skills;
demands on life;
advantages of current occupational work;
responsibilities in occupation;
motives for acceptance of a management function;
negative things at work or in occupation;
understanding of equal rights, achievement of equal rights in personal life.
Questionnaire for the mothers of the women:
size of place of residence;
leisure interests;
extent of leisure time on weekdays;
self-image;
partner relation, characteristics of partner relation;
problems in achievement of equal rights in the partnership;
division of labor in the partnership;
responsibility in decisions, reasons for dominance of the man;
expectations of a partnership and their change in the partnership;
satisfaction with previous life;
goals in life;
attitude to compatibility of baby and occupation;
attitudes to relationship between women, men and children;
opinion on feminininity;
attitude to sex-specific educational goals;
personal degree of employment;
compatibility of occupation and family in life up to now;
effects of employment on other areas;
preferred structuring of personal life;
attitude to management activity by women;
political attitudes, attitude to equal rights;
personal children, children in household;
school degree, highest occupational qualification, occupation.