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Author: Strommer, Bernice H.
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1. Strommer, Bernice H.
Status Attainment Processes in the United States: Analysis by Gender, Race, and Public/Private Employment
Ph.D. Dissertation, The Ohio State University, 1988
Cohort(s): Young Men, Young Women
Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning
Keyword(s): Educational Returns; Gender Differences; Occupational Status; Private Sector; Public Sector; Racial Differences

This study examined gender and race differences as well as gender and public/private sector differences in the process of status change among adults over a ten year period using a comparative analysis that distinguished between factors predictive of occupational status at the beginning of the period and those occurring over the period. The effects of four clusters of intervening events and experiences on changing status were examined: (1) educational attainment; (2) labor force participation; (3) marriage and parenthood; and (4) rural/urban residential location. Using data from the NLS of Young Men and Young Women, certain of the hypotheses advanced were confirmed. Namely, public sector employment does exert a greater impact on status attainment for women and black men than for white men over a ten year period. Background events and experiences are more important than those intervening for white men but intervening events and experiences are more important for women and black men. When status attainment is measured in terms of wage, intervening events and experiences are more important than background for women only. Efficacy of resources rather than levels is proportionately more important in determining gender and racial differential gain in occupational prestige. Levels of resources rather than efficacy are, however, proportionately more important in determining differential gain in wage between white men and women. Other differences due to levels of resources are discussed. Because intervening events and experiences, especially education and parenthood, are more important for the disadvantaged, the structure of work in the United States needs to be analyzed and assessed to formulate policies for promotion of further opportunities to achieve equitable advancement.
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Strommer, Bernice H. Status Attainment Processes in the United States: Analysis by Gender, Race, and Public/Private Employment. Ph.D. Dissertation, The Ohio State University, 1988.