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Title: Historical Change in American Women's Life Course Construction
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Zobl, Sara R. |
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Historical Change in American Women's Life Course Construction Presented: Chicago IL, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2017 Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY97 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Educational Attainment; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Life Course; Racial Differences; Transition, Adulthood; Women Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Despite broad consensus that the contemporary American transition to adulthood is diverse and disorderly compared to that of the mid-20th century, life course research has not yet fully explored the nature and degree of change in American women's paths to adulthood. Specifically, while a large body of research addresses women’s life course event completion and timing as related to family formation or career trajectories, temporal changes in sequencing by social class and race/ethnicity remain unexamined. Using nationally representative data from female participants in all available rounds of the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth (NLSY79 & NLSY97), I identify the most common event sequences by which two cohorts of American women completed formal education, entered the labor force, married, and became parents. I draw out patterns of heterogeneity within cohorts and changes over time by comparing event sequencing by racial/ethnic category and by level of educational attainment. |
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Zobl, Sara R. "Historical Change in American Women's Life Course Construction." Presented: Chicago IL, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2017. |