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Title: Career Patterns and Intragenerational Mobility Processes for Mature American Women
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Chenoweth, Lillian Cochran |
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Career Patterns and Intragenerational Mobility Processes for Mature American Women Ph.D. Dissertation, Texas A and M University, 1980. DAI-A 41/04, p. 1781, October 1980 Cohort(s): Mature Women Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning Keyword(s): Career Patterns; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Mobility; Mobility, Social; Sex Roles; Variables, Independent - Covariate Based on data from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Work Experience, this research assesses three major life career patterns for mature American women: home, labor force, and mixed careers. The research then evaluates five general propositions and fourteen derived hypotheses concerning: (1) variability in the career patterns of mature American women; (2) differences in the intragenerational mobility of women with mixed and labor force careers; and (3) variations in the frequency of occupational change among women with labor force careers. In the first phase of the research, three general propositions and nine derived hypotheses are tested pertaining to the relationship between women's career patterns and their familial investments, human capital investments, and characteristics of the job and market. The findings provide support for the general propositions. All nine independent variables: marriage, children, mother's employment, husband's income, husband's attitude, health, education, earnings and demand for female labor are significantly related to overall variability in women's career patterns. More specifically, low human capital investments in health and education, as well as high familial investment in a conservative marriage (as reflected by husband's attitude) are associated with disproportionate representation of women with home careers. However, other attributes of familial investments and the job and market are not consistently associated with home careers. These findings suggest that mature American women are likely to experience substantial involvement in the labor force, i.e., mixed careers, regardless of their familial investments, human capital investments, or job characteristics. The second phase of the research assesses differences in intragenerational mobility between women with mixed and labor force career patterns. The findings do not suggest significantly different mobility processes for women with mixed or labor force careers. The three hypotheses regarding differences in the fact, frequency and type of mobility are not supported by the data. Women with these two dissimilar career patterns appear to evidence similar intragenerational mobility processes. The third phase of the research investigates the frequency of occupational change for women with labor force careers. The findings indicate that variables reflecting familial investments, human capital investments, and structural opportunities are correlated with the frequency of mobility. This phase of the research develops a five-variable summary model which explains six percent of individual level variation in the frequency of occupational change for white women and twenty percent for black women. |
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Chenoweth, Lillian Cochran. Career Patterns and Intragenerational Mobility Processes for Mature American Women. Ph.D. Dissertation, Texas A and M University, 1980. DAI-A 41/04, p. 1781, October 1980. |