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Timing Effects of Women's Family Careers on Employment and Occupational Attainment Ph.D. Dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1990 Cohort(s): Young Women Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning Keyword(s): Employment; First Birth; Life Course; Life Cycle Research; Marriage; Maternal Employment; Occupational Attainment; Wives, Work; Women's Roles In the last few decades, the dramatic increase of the female labor force, particularly among young mothers, has changed women's lives considerably. The coordination between their family and work roles has become a major problem. The NLS young women, who grew up with domestic aspirations, entered the adult world during the late 1960s and the 1970s. Many of them had to search for a viable life style to keep up with the accelerated pace of change. Delaying a family has been increasingly a common option for them. This dissertation uses the life-course framework to examine the consequences of marriage and parenthood timing on women's employment and occupational attainment. The purpose is to evaluate the differential impacts of marriage and parenthood due to their timing in the life course. Three competing hypotheses, each emphasizing the aspect of career dynamics, work orientation, and the labor market structure respectively, are tested in this dissertation. Findings suggest a mixed support for them. Early first marriage temporarily decreases the likelihood of employment, but work orientation does change the implications of marriage timing. Early first marriage does not seem to have negative effects on women's occupational attainment. First births are such dramatic events in women's lives that they affect the employment of new mothers of all ages to the same extent. Occupational attainment, on the other hand, varies with parenthood timing. Those who entered parenthood at older ages were able to minimize the negative impacts of first birth. |
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Ting, Kwok Fai. Timing Effects of Women's Family Careers on Employment and Occupational Attainment. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1990. |