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A Multi-Level Longitudinal Analysis of Racial Convergence and Segmentation between African-American and White Women in the Professions: 1967-1993 Ph. D. Dissertation, University of Kentucky, 2002. DAI-A 63/08, p. 3015, February 2003 Cohort(s): Mature Women, NLSY79, Young Women Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning Keyword(s): Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Occupational Segregation; Racial Differences; Racial Studies; Women In the late 1970s some theorists and policy makers asserted that equal opportunity policies had contributed to substantial racial convergence in employment in professional occupations. Segmentation theorists argued that these policies had forced racial minorities, African-Americans in particular, into a subordinate segment of the professional middle class. This study examines the racial convergence versus racial segmentation debate as it relates to the occupational distributions of African-American and White women in professional occupations from the 1960s to the 1990s. Previous studies devoted to the analysis of the employment patterns of African-American and White women in the professions have primarily employed census and other cross-sectional data to determine trends in women's occupational distributions over time. These studies have yielded aggregate-level statistics that are useful for the observation of overall trends; however, this level of analysis does not capture individual-level responses to changes in the social, economic, and political conditions at particular historical moments. Therefore, this study expands previous research with the use of individual-level panel data from the National Longitudinal Study of Labor Market Experience (NLS) for three age cohorts (Mature Women 1967, Young Women 1968, and Youth 1979). A longitudinal investigation of the intragenerational and intergenerational occupational distributions of African-American and White women was conducted in order to assess women's occupational behavior in response to the changing context in which they were making employment decisions from the 1960s to the 1990s. This study also expands results from previous research in that I (1)plify the interaction of race, gender, and class as it relates to the occupational distributions of African-American and White women in the professions within and across cohorts. Overall, the results support both the racial convergence and racial segmentation views. However, the extent of racial convergence and/or segmentation between African-American and White women in the professions is dependent upon the social construction and intersection of race, gender, and class at particular historical moments. |
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Smith, Dionne F. A Multi-Level Longitudinal Analysis of Racial Convergence and Segmentation between African-American and White Women in the Professions: 1967-1993. Ph. D. Dissertation, University of Kentucky, 2002. DAI-A 63/08, p. 3015, February 2003. |