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Title: Effects of Children and Employment Status on the Volunteer Work of American Women
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1. Rotolo, Thomas
Wilson, John
Effects of Children and Employment Status on the Volunteer Work of American Women
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 36,3 (September 2007): 487-503
Cohort(s): Young Women
Publisher: Sage Publications
Keyword(s): Child Care; Children; Discrimination; Economics of Gender; Employment; Fertility; Housework/Housewives; Volunteer Work

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Competing demands from work and family make it difficult for women to do volunteer work. An analysis of data from the Young Women's Cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey (1978-1991) shows that homemakers are more likely to volunteer than are fulltime workers, followed by part-time workers. Mothers of school-age children are the most likely to volunteer, followed by childless women and mothers of young children. Mothers of school-age children are even more likely to volunteer if they are homemakers, and mothers of pre-school children are even less likely to volunteer if they work fulltime.
Bibliography Citation
Rotolo, Thomas and John Wilson. "Effects of Children and Employment Status on the Volunteer Work of American Women." Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 36,3 (September 2007): 487-503.