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Title: Why Do Women Opt Out? The Ideological and Economic Determinants of Women's Employment Status
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Leupp, Katrina M. |
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Why Do Women Opt Out? The Ideological and Economic Determinants of Women's Employment Status Presented: Dallas, TX, Population Association of America Meetings, April 2010 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Bias Decomposition; Employment; First Birth; Household Income; Housework/Housewives; Income; Maternal Employment; Motherhood; Mothers; Mothers, Behavior; Mothers, Income Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Popular culture indicates that the cultural model of intensive mothering, which prizes full-time, maternal care for children, remains salient despite women's high employment rates (Douglas & Michaels 2004). This paper examines the conceptual relevance of perspectives implied by 1) cultural ideologies about mothering, and 2) financial resources, for understanding mothers' return to employment after a first birth. Results indicate that holding an intensive mothering ideology, and family income other than women's own earnings, decrease the risk of return to employment. Yet at the same time, mothers' incomes have significant, positive effects on employment returns. In sum, the competing effects of own income and other family income suggest a more complicated relationship between class privilege, employment, and mothering practices than is commonly described. |
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Leupp, Katrina M. "Why Do Women Opt Out? The Ideological and Economic Determinants of Women's Employment Status." Presented: Dallas, TX, Population Association of America Meetings, April 2010. |