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Author: Calderon, Vivian
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1. Calderon, Vivian
Maternal Employment and Career Orientation of Young Chicana, Black, and White Women
Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California - Santa Cruz, 1984. DAI-B 45/09, p. 3112, March 1985
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning
Keyword(s): Bias Decomposition; Educational Aspirations/Expectations; Occupational Aspirations; Racial Differences; Sex Roles

Data from the 1979 Youth cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Labor Force Behavior provide support for a causal model of career orientation in which maternal employment plays a primary role. Career orientation measures (1) work commitment and (2) realism in planning educational, vocational and birth goals--significant work related issues for young women 16-22 years of age. Maternal employment operates via enrollment and family attitude variables to raise career orientation. Effect sizes and the pattern of relationship among the model variables differs for each ethnic/racial group when a causal structure is imposed on the data. For all groups, the more employment observed, the greater the positive effects. Largest significant direct effects for maternal employment are observed in the white sample, followed by blacks. But hierarchical causal analysis indicates the largest significant total effects for maternal employment occur in the Chicana sample, followed by blacks. This indicates the cumulative effect of maternal employment on enrollment status, marital timing and gender role attitudes raises career orientation scores were more in the minority samples. Particularly noteworthy is the way maternal employment vitiates traditional gender role attitudes among Chicanas. For young black women, the effects of maternal employment are more uniform across the intervening variables, with enrollment status playing a slightly larger role in raising career orientation scores. A review of the status attainment literature provides the background for the study. The review is organized by gender, race/ethnicity, and developmental stage.
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Calderon, Vivian. Maternal Employment and Career Orientation of Young Chicana, Black, and White Women. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California - Santa Cruz, 1984. DAI-B 45/09, p. 3112, March 1985.