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Title: Longitudinal and Cross-Cohort Employment Patterns of Women
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Crowley, Joan E. |
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Longitudinal and Cross-Cohort Employment Patterns of Women Presented: Washington, DC, American Psychological Association, 1982 Cohort(s): Mature Women, NLSY79, Young Women Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA) Keyword(s): Fertility; Job Aspirations; Labor Force Participation; Occupational Segregation; Sex Roles This paper reviews the research done on labor force participation, wages, and occupational segregation which utilized the Mature Women, Young Women, and NLSY data. Each successive cohort of women shows higher levels of commitment to the labor force. Even among the mature women, a very high proportion worked either continuously or sporadically. Young women are showing stronger commitments to the labor market, higher levels of education, and lower levels of fertility (actual and expected), meaning that there should be fewer conflicts between home and work and greater expected returns to employment. Attitudes toward work are becoming more favorable, both across cohorts and across time within cohorts. Women continue to be concentrated in relatively few occupations, and the aspirations of respondents in the youth cohort indicate that a great deal of difference between men and women persists, although the gap is not as wide as it was for the youth from the 1960s cohorts. Most trends are in the direction of increased employment, wages, and decreased occupational segregation. |
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Crowley, Joan E. "Longitudinal and Cross-Cohort Employment Patterns of Women." Presented: Washington, DC, American Psychological Association, 1982. |