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Author: Solomon, Janet S.
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1. Solomon, Janet S.
Influence of Personal Attitudes on Occupational Typicality: A Study of Mature Women Reentering the Labor Force
Ph.D. Dissertation, George Washington University, 1983
Cohort(s): Mature Women
Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning
Keyword(s): Marital Status; Occupational Attainment; Occupations, Female; Sex Roles; Wives; Wives, Attitudes; Wives, Work; Women's Roles; Work Reentry

This research examines the relationship of attitudes toward appropriate roles for women and occupational typicality at the time of reentry to the labor force. Two sample subsets utilizing NLS data from the Mature Women's cohort studied married white reentrants through the 1970s. The objectives were: (1) to determine a relationship between attitudes and occupational typicality; and (2) to study the changing relationship over time. The study concludes that both sets of women were very slowly changing their attitudes but did not significantly alter their occupational distribution. Analyses of the attitudinal data indicate that between 1972 and 1977, the survey respondents' attitudes toward working wives became slightly more positive. Analyses of the occupational typicality data demonstrate that respondents from both surveys returned to the same female dominated occupations that they were in before. Analyses of the association between attitudes and occupational typicality indicate the absence of any correlation of predictive relationship between the variables. This absence was observed for the aggregated attitude responses and for each of the nine responses.
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Solomon, Janet S. Influence of Personal Attitudes on Occupational Typicality: A Study of Mature Women Reentering the Labor Force. Ph.D. Dissertation, George Washington University, 1983.