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Title: Job Stability Among Young Women: A Comparison of Traditional and Nontraditional Occupations
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Waite, Linda J. Berryman, Sue E. |
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Job Stability Among Young Women: A Comparison of Traditional and Nontraditional Occupations American Journal of Sociology 92,3 (November 1986): 568-595. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2779916 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Keyword(s): Gender Differences; Job Turnover; Military Training; Mobility; Mobility, Labor Market; Occupational Segregation; Occupations, Non-Traditional This paper explores young women's retention in sex-atypical jobs in the military and in civilian firms. It develops hypotheses about the effects on one-year turnover of sex composition of the occupation in the national labor force. These hypotheses were drawn from several theoretical perspectives on career mobility and the effects of outgroup membership on acceptance. Tests of these hypotheses, using data from the NLSY, provide no evidence that being in a nontraditional occupation increases the chances that a young woman will leave her current employer. The military sector shows a more complex relationship between occupational typicality and women's exit from the services. |
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Waite, Linda J. and Sue E. Berryman. "Job Stability Among Young Women: A Comparison of Traditional and Nontraditional Occupations." American Journal of Sociology 92,3 (November 1986): 568-595.
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