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Author: Dex, Shirley
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1. Dex, Shirley
Shaw, Lois B.
British and American Women at Work: Do Equal Opportunities Policies Matter?
London, England: MacMillan Publishers, Ltd, 1986
Cohort(s): Mature Women, Young Women
Publisher: MacMillan Publishers, Ltd.
Keyword(s): Behavior; Britain, British; Child Care; Cross-national Analysis; First Birth; Leave, Family or Maternity/Paternity; Mobility; Occupational Status; Part-Time Work; Work Reentry

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Using data from the Mature and Young Women cohorts and the British Women in Employment Survey, this book compares the effects of childbearing on the labor market experiences of women in the United States and Great Britain. The principal findings are that British women tend to stay at home longer after the birth of a child and are more likely than American women to return to work part-time. As a result, British women are more likely than American women to experience downward occupational mobility after childbearing begins. The authors consider some of the possible causes of these differences in work behavior, including differences in: equal opportunity legislation; the availability of childcare subsidies and maternity leave; tax incentives for hiring part-time workers; and in the industrial structure and growth rates of the two countries.
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Dex, Shirley and Lois B. Shaw. British and American Women at Work: Do Equal Opportunities Policies Matter? London, England: MacMillan Publishers, Ltd, 1986.