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Title: Generational Differences in Female Occupational Attainment -- Have the 1970's Changed Women's Opportunities?
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Zalokar, C. Nadja |
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Generational Differences in Female Occupational Attainment -- Have the 1970's Changed Women's Opportunities? American Economic Review 76,2 (May 1986): 378-381. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1818800 Cohort(s): Mature Women, Young Women Publisher: American Economic Association Keyword(s): Discrimination, Sex; Gender Differences; Labor Force Participation; Occupational Attainment; Occupations, Female; Sex Roles Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Earlier studies found evidence that sex differences in labor force attachment may explain sex differences in occupations. However, England (1982) and Corcoran et al. (1983) find that women with high labor force attachment are no more likely than other women to be in male occupations. This suggests that, when selecting occupations, women may face constraints in the form of direct labor market discrimination preventing them from entering male occupations or of a socialization process through which women and men acquire differing tastes for occupations. In the present analysis, data from the NLS of Mature Women are compared with the NLS of Young Women when each cohort was aged 30-38. The main source of women's increased occupational attainment during the 1970s was a decrease in women's costs of entering (increase in women's tastes for) more skilled, less female occupations. |
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Zalokar, C. Nadja. "Generational Differences in Female Occupational Attainment -- Have the 1970's Changed Women's Opportunities?" American Economic Review 76,2 (May 1986): 378-381.
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