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Author: Lubold, Amanda M.
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1. O'Brien, Laureen K.
Lubold, Amanda M.
Opting Out or Pushed Out?: Women's Decisions to Leave Work and Career
Presented: Chicago IL, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2015
Cohort(s): Young Women
Publisher: American Sociological Association
Keyword(s): Career Patterns; Discrimination, Sex; Labor Force Participation; Maternal Employment; Racial Differences

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Recent qualitative scholarship has highlighted the importance of negative workplace relationships and structural inequalities in predicting highly-educated mothers' departures from top managerial and executive jobs, a phenomenon known as "Opting-out." This quantitative research examines whether perceptions of sex discrimination at work affect mothers' "opting-out" behavior using data from the National Longitudinal Study Young Women Cohort (1968-2003). We find that while women who perceive discrimination actually experience fewer weeks out of the labor force, the effects of discrimination perceptions operate differently for white and non-white women. Non-white women who perceive discrimination experience more time out of the labor force than their white counterparts. Other factors, such as marital status and number of children, do have a positive effect on women's absence from the workforce.
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O'Brien, Laureen K. and Amanda M. Lubold. "Opting Out or Pushed Out?: Women's Decisions to Leave Work and Career." Presented: Chicago IL, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2015.