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Title: High School Completion for Young Women: Effects of Low Income and Living with a Single Parent. Also published as: Effects of Low Income and Living with a Single Parent
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1. Shaw, Lois B.
High School Completion for Young Women: Effects of Low Income and Living with a Single Parent. Also published as: Effects of Low Income and Living with a Single Parent
Journal of Family Issues 3,2 (June 1982): 147-163.
Also: http://jfi.sagepub.com/content/3/2/147.abstract
Cohort(s): Mature Women, Young Women
Publisher: Sage Publications
Keyword(s): Bias Decomposition; Childbearing; Dropouts; Educational Attainment; Family Resources; High School; Parental Influences; Parents, Single

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The increase in the proportion of married women in their late thirties exhibiting a strong attachment to the labor market is examined. An analysis of the National Longitudinal Surveys of Labor Market Experience for the period 1966-1976 reveals that: (1) major factors influencing black women to become more stongly involved in the LF were fewer family duties, higher level of education, & improved health; (2) lessening family duties, expansion of work history, & evolving attitudes toward the role of women in society most strongly influenced white women in the market place; & (3) even larger increases could have been seen among both black & white women except for a general condition of high unemployment. Patterns describing future involvement of midlife women in the LF are proposed.
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Shaw, Lois B. "High School Completion for Young Women: Effects of Low Income and Living with a Single Parent. Also published as: Effects of Low Income and Living with a Single Parent." Journal of Family Issues 3,2 (June 1982): 147-163.