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Author: Worts, Diana
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Worts, Diana |
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Cumulative Disadvantage, Employment-Marriage, and Health Inequalities among American and British Mothers Advances in Life Course Research 25 (September 2015): 49-66. Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040260815000295# Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Elsevier Keyword(s): Britain, British; Cross-national Analysis; Depression (see also CESD); Employment; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Life Course; Marriage; Maternal Employment; Modeling, Logit; Mothers; Mothers, Health; NCDS - National Child Development Study (British) This paper illuminates processes of cumulative disadvantage and the generation of health inequalities among mothers. It asks whether adverse circumstances early in the life course cumulate as health-harming biographical patterns across the prime working and family caregiving years. It also explores whether broader institutional contexts may moderate the cumulative effects of micro-level processes. An analysis of data from the British National Child Development Study and the US National Longitudinal Survey of Youth reveals several expected social inequalities in health. In addition, the study uncovers new evidence of cumulative disadvantage: Adversities in early life selected women into long-term employment and marriage biographies that then intensified existing health disparities in mid-life. The analysis also shows that this accumulation of disadvantage was more prominent in the US than in Britain. |
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Worts, Diana. "Cumulative Disadvantage, Employment-Marriage, and Health Inequalities among American and British Mothers." Advances in Life Course Research 25 (September 2015): 49-66.
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Worts, Diana Sacker, Amanda McMunn, Anne McDonough, Peggy |
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Individualization, Opportunity and Jeopardy in American Women's Work and Family Lives: A Multi-state Sequence Analysis Advances in Life Course Research 18,4 (December 2013): 296-318. Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040260813000300 Cohort(s): NLSY79, Young Women Publisher: Elsevier Keyword(s): Labor Force Participation; Life Course; Marital History/Transitions; Parenthood; Socioeconomic Factors Life course sociologists are increasingly concerned with how the general character of biographies is transformed over historical time – and with what this means for individual life chances. The individualization thesis, which contends that contemporary biographies are less predictable, less orderly and less collectively determined than were those lived before the middle of the 20th century, suggests that life courses have become both more internally dynamic and more diverse across individuals. Whether these changes reflect expanding opportunities or increasing jeopardy is a matter of some debate. We examine these questions using data on the employment, marital and parental histories, over the ages of 25–49, for five birth cohorts of American women (N = 7150). Our results show that biographical change has been characterized more by growing differences between women than by increasing complexity within individual women's lives. Whether the mounting diversity of work and family life paths reflects, on balance, expanding opportunities or increasing jeopardy depends very much on the social advantages and disadvantages women possessed as they entered their prime working and childrearing years. |
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Worts, Diana, Amanda Sacker, Anne McMunn and Peggy McDonough. "Individualization, Opportunity and Jeopardy in American Women's Work and Family Lives: A Multi-state Sequence Analysis ." Advances in Life Course Research 18,4 (December 2013): 296-318.
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