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Title: Returning to School and Women's Educational Attainment
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Felmlee, Diane Helen |
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Returning to School and Women's Educational Attainment Sociology of Education 61,1 (January 1988): 29-41. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2112307 Cohort(s): Young Women Publisher: American Sociological Association Keyword(s): Educational Aspirations/Expectations; Educational Returns; Occupational Attainment; Schooling; Wage Levels; Women; Women's Education Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Over the past twenty-five years, more and more United States women have been returning to school after a period of employment in the labor force. Factors that make it likely that women will leave the labor force to obtain more schooling, and whether this increase in education significantly improves their wage levels and job prestige when they return to work are investigated using employment history data from the NLS of Young Women, 1968-1973, (number of cases = 3,638 white and 1,459 black respondents aged 14-24). The results of the initial analysis reveal that job rewards are an important influence on women's rates of returning to school. In addition, regression analyses demonstrate that women's return to school yields modest wage increases and increased occupational prestige (with certain exceptions) in subsequent jobs. Women who return to school are also more likely to improve the occupational category of their job, although usually they remain employed in gender-typical occupations. In general, additional schooling benefits women's occupational attainment, but, perhaps because of structural barriers, there are limitations to these benefits. [Sociological Abstracts, Inc.] |
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Felmlee, Diane Helen. "Returning to School and Women's Educational Attainment." Sociology of Education 61,1 (January 1988): 29-41.
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