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Title: Occupational Sex Segregation and Marriage: The Romantic Cost of Gender-Deviant Jobs
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McClintock, Elizabeth |
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Occupational Sex Segregation and Marriage: The Romantic Cost of Gender-Deviant Jobs Presented: Washington, DC, Population Association of America Annual Meetings, March 31-April 2, 2011 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Discrimination, Sex; Gender Differences; Life Course; Marriage; National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (AddHealth); Occupational Segregation Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. In this paper I consider the possible mechanisms by which occupation sex segregation might be associated with the chance of marriage. I use data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) to estimate the chance of marriage over a period of fourteen years as a function of occupational and personal characteristics. I find that both women and men benefit from making gender-typical occupational choices. Additionally, men are penalized from working in female-dominated occupations. In a supplementary analysis I use data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health 1994-2008 (Add Health) to investigate whether these findings might be attributed to differences in sexual orientation or in personal attractiveness. |
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McClintock, Elizabeth. "Occupational Sex Segregation and Marriage: The Romantic Cost of Gender-Deviant Jobs." Presented: Washington, DC, Population Association of America Annual Meetings, March 31-April 2, 2011. |