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Factors Influencing Young Women's Transitions among Multiple Role Combinations: U.S. 1968-73 Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1984. DAI-A 45/05, p. 1537, November 1984 Cohort(s): Young Women Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning Keyword(s): Life Cycle Research; Sex Roles; Women's Roles While interrupted marriage, labor force and education histories of young U.S. women have received much attention in the literature, little attempt has been made to analyze these roles as competing but not necessarily mutually exclusive options and to include all women. Using a pooled data set of 18,916 one-year transitions for women aged 14 to 30 from the National Longitudinal Surveys (Young Women, 1968-1973), this dissertation addresses two main issues: the frequency of and movement among various combinations of these three roles and the effect of background and current characteristics on the probability of making particular transitions. OLS is used to estimate the marginal change in the underlying transition probability associated with having a particular characteristic. Results show that role combination is a major feature in the lives of young women. At Time t, over one third are in two of the three roles, but only 1.2 percent are in all three simultaneously, with the combination of wife and student least prevalent. In the bivariate analysis, combining roles is strongly associated with being white and having at least some college education. While there is clear association between origin and destination role combinations, it is also clear that young women change role combinations often--over forty percent of the young women changed roles during the one year interval, a proportion which increased over time. Thus the normative serial ordering pattern of school, work, then marriage needs to be expanded to include combinations of adjacent roles and allow for back and forth movement among the combinations. The more proximate current characteristics of the women change their transition probabilities by greater absolute amounts than do the more remote background characteristics. More specifically, the birth of a new child, compared to not having one, and higher education, compared to women who have not finished high school, have the largest significant effects for the greatest number of transitions. Yet the strength of the background characteristics, even after controlling for the current characteristics, is impressive. Being black as opposed to white, higher parental education, and more encouragement to attend college remain important determinants of the transitions. |
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Denton, Nancy Anne. Factors Influencing Young Women's Transitions among Multiple Role Combinations: U.S. 1968-73. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1984. DAI-A 45/05, p. 1537, November 1984. |