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Title: The Availability of Traditional and Family-Friendly Employee Benefits among a Cohort of Young Women, 1968-1995
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Caputo, Richard K. |
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The Availability of Traditional and Family-Friendly Employee Benefits among a Cohort of Young Women, 1968-1995 Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Human Services 81,4 (July-August 2000): 422-436. Also: http://www.familiesinsociety.org/ShowAbstract.asp?docid=1037 Cohort(s): Young Women Publisher: Manticore Publishers Keyword(s): Benefits; Employment; Employment History; Job Training Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Based on a nationally representative sample of young women who ever worked between 1968 and 1995 (N = 2,594), findings of a study on the availability of traditional and family-friendly employee benefits are presented. The highest concentrations (70% to 95%) of women held jobs with traditional benefits such as medical coverage, life insurance, and retirement pensions, while the proportions holding jobs with family-friendly benefits such as paid and unpaid maternity leave and flexible work hours were about half that or less. In any given survey year, between 9% and 11% of working women held jobs without benefits, while, over their work histories, 39% had held at least one job without benefits. The effects of 10 correlates on the number of years working women held jobs with specific employee benefits were also assessed. Correlates included age; highest grade completed; number of employers; number of children ever had; race; and years of full-time employment, marriage, public assistance, private-sector employment, and union membership. A positive relationship was found between full-time employment and nearly all employee benefits, while number of children had no effect on all but one benefit, flexible menu of benefits. Most significant, race was found to affect whether working women ever held jobs with certain employee benefits, as well as the number of years they were likely to hold such jobs. Despite longer full-time work histories, Black women were less likely than White women to have jobs with job-related training programs and with several family-friendly benefits. Implications for retaining principles of affirmative actions, workplace strategies, and other policies are discussed. |
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Caputo, Richard K. "The Availability of Traditional and Family-Friendly Employee Benefits among a Cohort of Young Women, 1968-1995." Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Human Services 81,4 (July-August 2000): 422-436.
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