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Title: Rationing of Jobs: Consequences for Women Who Want to Work
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Thrall, Charles A. Furstenberg, Frank F. Jr. |
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Rationing of Jobs: Consequences for Women Who Want to Work Presented: San Francisco, CA, American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, 1975 Cohort(s): Mature Women Publisher: American Sociological Association Keyword(s): Children; Employment; Job Search; Marital Status; Unemployment Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. As a consequence of a chronic shortage of jobs in the United States, a set of norms and beliefs has developed for allocating the limited supply of jobs that do exist. This normative system serves as both a justification and a set of rules for rationing employment and has thus been labelled "job rationing ideology. " It operates as a queueing mechanism, placing individuals in line for employment with prime age white males at the head of the queue and everyone else one or more steps behind. For individuals such as women and minorities who stand back from the head of the job rationing queue, active job seeking is not a direct function of interest in working but also reflects the individual's sense of obligation to work and right to a job. To the extent that this is true, the present unemployment statistics are of little value in measuring the ability of the economy to provide work to all who are interested in working. Instead, the present measure serves to help obscure both the extent of the chronic shortage of jobs and the impact of the job rationing system on women and minorities who stand back from the head of the line. |
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Thrall, Charles A. and Frank F. Jr. Furstenberg. "Rationing of Jobs: Consequences for Women Who Want to Work." Presented: San Francisco, CA, American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, 1975. |