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Title: Fertility Expectations and the Changing Role of Women
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Shaw, Lois B. Statham, Anne |
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Fertility Expectations and the Changing Role of Women In: Employment Revolution: Young American Women in the 1970s. F.L. Mott, ed. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1982 Cohort(s): Young Women Publisher: Cambridge University Press Keyword(s): Earnings, Husbands; Fertility; Sex Roles; Work Experience Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Between 1973 and 1978 there was virtually no change in the average birth expectations of white married women, while black married women expected slightly larger families in 1978 than in 1973. Individual revisions of plans were related to the woman's own work experience or work plans and to their perceptions of women's proper social roles rather than their husband's earnings potential or changes in their husband's earnings. Easterlin's hypothesis that husbands' earnings potential relative to that of their parents' generation is the major force behind recent fertility trends receives little support. The analysis supports the conclusion of Butz and Ward that women's own work opportunities are important. |
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Shaw, Lois B. and Anne Statham. "Fertility Expectations and the Changing Role of Women" In: Employment Revolution: Young American Women in the 1970s. F.L. Mott, ed. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1982
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