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Women's Intergenerational Occupational Mobility: The Effects of Mothers' Occupations on the Occupations of Children Ph.D. Dissertation, Johns Hopkins University, 1984. DAI-A 44/11, p. 3508, May 1984 Cohort(s): Mature Women Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning Keyword(s): Bias Decomposition; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Mobility; Occupational Attainment; Occupational Segregation This dissertation examines the role of women in processes of intergenerational mobility; in particular, the effect of mothers' occupations on the occupations of children of both sexes. Most previous research on occupational mobility has focused on movement from fathers' to sons' occupations. Research on mobility patterns of women has followed in this tradition and, until recently, these mobility analyses have defined mobility for women in the same way as men (i.e., as movement from fathers' occupations). In this dissertation, it is argued that mothers' occupations like fathers' are a potential source of occupational influence on children's occupational choices and as such should be included as factors in mobility models of both men and women. Further, the dissertation suggests that known differences in work patterns of men and women--notably differences in the propensity to participate in the labor force and in sex differentiated patterns of occupational positions of labor force participants--have been neglected in past mobility research, and that to understand women's mobility, these factors need to be considered. A set of hypotheses about the nature of mothers' effects on her children is posited and using methods of loglinear model analysis, these hypotheses are tested using two data sets, the 'Explorations in Equality of Opportunity Survey' and the National Longitudinal Survey of Mature Women. The hypothesis test results show that mothers' occupations affect the occupations of their children, even when the effects of fathers' occupations have been included in models of mobility and that these mother-child effects are not simply a product of the fact that a mother is in the labor force and not in the home. Further, the results indicate that the effects of a mother involve more than a simple reinforcement of the occupation of the father. In terms of mothers' effects on daughters, the results show that mothers affect daughters of all ages; and these effects are not restricted to occupations traditionally held by women. Finally, the research results indicate that the sex-typed nature of women's occupations is not transmitted intergenerationally; that is, whether or not a mother holds a female sex-typed occupation is unrelated to whether or not a daughter's occupation is female sex-typed. |
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Dahmann, Judith Soisson. Women's Intergenerational Occupational Mobility: The Effects of Mothers' Occupations on the Occupations of Children. Ph.D. Dissertation, Johns Hopkins University, 1984. DAI-A 44/11, p. 3508, May 1984. |