Dual career families within the Coast Guard Officers Corps

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Authors
Henderson, Harlan
Subjects
Dual career families
Single income families
Dual income families
Advisors
McGonigal, Richard
Date of Issue
1981-09
Date
September 1981
Publisher
Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
Language
en_US
Abstract
Dual career couples are studied and compared with single and dual income families within the Coast Guard officer corps. The purpose of the thesis is to determine the percent of officers in each category and then examine differences among the three lifestyles. It was found that 24.2 percent of the respondents had dual career families compared to 21.1 percent of dual income and 54.7 percent for single income. Significant differences among the three lifestyles were found in the total and planned number of children, the appropriate age of children for the spouse to resume employment, spouse's level of education and how they felt about detailers considering the spouse's employment when determining assignments. Transfers were the biggest problem that dual career families had to cope with. It is concluded that the Coast Guard is doing a good job of managing its personnel based on the high degree of career satisfaction and the number of people who plan on a full 20 year career.
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Thesis
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Department
Administrative Sciences
Organization
Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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Format
95 leaves
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.
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