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Title: Occupational Atypicality: Changes, Causes, and Consequences
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Daymont, Thomas N. Statham, Anne |
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Occupational Atypicality: Changes, Causes, and Consequences In: Unplanned Careers: The Working Lives of Middle-Aged Women. L.B. Shaw, ed. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1983 Cohort(s): Mature Women Publisher: Jossey-Bass Keyword(s): Family Influences; Occupational Segregation; Occupations, Female; Work Reentry Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Little change was found in the tendency for middle-aged women to be employed in female-typed occupations. Family constraints on the time and energies of women do not explain the differential allocation of women to male-and female-typed occupations. Among whites, those who displayed a strong commitment to the labor market were only very slightly more likely than women with a weak commitment to be in atypical or male-typed occupations; moreover, among blacks, those who displayed a strong commitment to the labor market were actually slightly more likely to be in female-typed occupations. These results thus contradict the hypothesis, derived from human-capital theory that occupational sex segregation is largely explained by men and women choosing different occupations based on differences in their commitment to the labor market. |
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Daymont, Thomas N. and Anne Statham. "Occupational Atypicality: Changes, Causes, and Consequences" In: Unplanned Careers: The Working Lives of Middle-Aged Women. L.B. Shaw, ed. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1983
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