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Title: Dual Careers, Volume 3: A Longitudinal Study of the Labor Market Experience of Women
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1. Parnes, Herbert S.
Jusenius, Carol L.
Shortlidge, Richard L. Jr.
Dual Careers, Volume 3: A Longitudinal Study of the Labor Market Experience of Women
Manpower Research Monograph 21, Volume 3. Washington DC: US GPO, 1975
Cohort(s): Mature Women
Publisher: U.S. Department of Labor
Keyword(s): Child Care; Children; Mobility, Job; Socioeconomic Status (SES); Wages

This report focuses on two problems which women in the labor force are likely to encounter. The first is the changing occupational distribution of women. Over the past decade concern has arisen regarding both the distribution of women among occupations and the low wages generally associated with those jobs in which most women are employed. Here we examine, for the time span 1967 to 1972, the extent to which women left (or entered) occupations which society views as "acceptable" for them. Also discussed is the relationship between type of occupation and selected socioeconomic variables; the impact of occupational change on wage rates is of particular importance. The second problem is the changing demand for child care facilities. This deals with arrangements made by women in the labor force during 1971 who had at least one child under 18 years of age. The analysis relates both demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of these women to the various forms of child care which they used. Also examined is the need for public and private forms of child care among women with different family, economic, and labor force characteristics. Changes which occurred between 1965 and 1971 in the utilization of different types of child care arrangements are discussed.
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Parnes, Herbert S., Carol L. Jusenius and Richard L. Jr. Shortlidge. Dual Careers, Volume 3: A Longitudinal Study of the Labor Market Experience of Women. Manpower Research Monograph 21, Volume 3. Washington DC: US GPO, 1975.