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Women's Labor Force Participation and Marital Stability in the United States: A Panel Study Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Texas at Austin, 1976 Cohort(s): Mature Women Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning Keyword(s): Earnings, Wives; Marital Disruption; Marital Stability; Sex Roles; Wives, Work Recent investigations into the patterns of women's labor force participation have given us a better appreciation of the complex and varied nature of women's work. Not only does the timing of women's labor force participation differ from men's, but equally different are the kinds of jobs at which women work. Not only does the timing of women's labor force participation differ from men's, but equally different are the kinds of jobs at which women work, remuneration received, and effects on the quality of home life. Few studies to date, however, have examined the relationship between women's work and marital disruption. This study attempts to assess the impact of women's work in the paid labor force on the chance of marital instability. Specifically, role theory is employed as a theoretical mechanism for analyzing various statistical findings of women's labor force participation and marital disruption. Three hypotheses are derived from the role theory: (1) the greater the wife's labor force participation, the less the marital stability; (2) the more the demands of a woman's occupation, the less the marital stability; and (3) the less the wife's income, the less the effect of labor force participation on marital stability. These hypotheses are investigated using multivariate statistical techniques on a national, longitudinal sample of approximately 5,000 women subdivided into whites and nonwhites. Findings from the statistical analyses suggest that for women 30 to 44 years of age, the hours worked in the paid labor force and the occupation of the respondent are important factors in marital stability, even when the husband's resource variables are controlled. Although wife's income is also an important factor in marital instability, contrary to hypothesis (3), there is already a threshold at which point marital stability increases with higher incomes. Theresults of this study suggest the importance of including both husband's and wife's economic variables for research on marital disruption, and the utility of role theory as a heuristic device for understanding the substantive meaning of the analyses. |
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Taylor, Patricia A. Women's Labor Force Participation and Marital Stability in the United States: A Panel Study. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Texas at Austin, 1976. |