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Title: Women in Nontraditional Occupations: Comparisons of the Military and Civilian Sectors
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Waite, Linda J. Berryman, Sue E. |
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Women in Nontraditional Occupations: Comparisons of the Military and Civilian Sectors Presented: Detroit, MI, American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, 1983 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: American Sociological Association Keyword(s): Job Tenure; Military Training; Occupations, Female; Occupations, Male; Occupations, Non-Traditional; Variables, Independent - Covariate Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Since the early 1970s, the United States military has dramatically increased its recruitment of women and, to ensure that their promotion possibilities would equal those of men, has adopted a policy of distributing women among all eligible occupations, including some formerly filled only by men. The military has had mixed success in integrating women into these nontraditional jobs. Many women prefer traditional work, in medical, clerical, or administrative specialties. Anecdotal evidence suggests that recruiters sometimes pressure them into nontraditional training slots. Among those women who accept traditionally male jobs, tensions often arise with male coworkers and supervisors, which may explain, in part, the higher attrition rate of women. Attrition studies, though few in number, show high attrition of women from blue-collar, nontraditional jobs in both the military and civilian sectors; nontraditional professional, managerial, and administrative jobs show lower attrition. Hypotheses relating to female attrition rates in nontraditional jobs are developed and tested separately in the civilian and military sectors, using data from the NLSY (1979-1981), which included a special supplement on youth in the military, among them 300 women. A polytomous logit specification is used, allowing women who began the period in nontraditional jobs to: (1) remain in the job or change to another nontraditional job; (2) change to a traditional job; or (3) leave the labor force. Polytomous logit permits assessment of the impact of the independent variables on the probability of making each of these transitions relative to making a reference transition. |
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Waite, Linda J. and Sue E. Berryman. "Women in Nontraditional Occupations: Comparisons of the Military and Civilian Sectors." Presented: Detroit, MI, American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, 1983. |