Women's Roles and Well-Being Project records

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 23-13-2917

Scope and content

Questionnaires and transcripts of interviews conducted during the project and reports, coding books and files concerning the project itself.

Dates

1986-2005.

Creator

New York State College of Human Ecology (Organization)
Williams, Robin M., Jr., 1914-2006. (Person)
Dean, John P. (John Peebles), 1914- (Person)
Dempster-McClain, Donna. (Person)
Moen, Phyllis. (Person)

Restrictions on Access

Access restricted to the permission of the Department of Human Development in the College of Human Ecology.

Biographical / Historical

In 1956, under the direction of Robin M. Williams and John Dean, 427 women were interviewed about family and non-family roles, their health activities, and attitudes on various issues. All the women lived in upstate New York. Thirty years later, Phyllis Moen and Donna Dempster McClain located and interviewed 313 of these women. In 1987 and 1988 they interviewed one daughter from each of 246 of these women. The daughters were asked about their roles and attitudes and about their relationships with their mothers. The mother and daughter pairs make up the sample for the project.