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Title: Unconventional Wisdom: New Facts and Hot Stats from the Social Sciences. The Happy (Later) Life Of Orphanage Alums
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Morin, Richard |
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Unconventional Wisdom: New Facts and Hot Stats from the Social Sciences. The Happy (Later) Life Of Orphanage Alums Washington Post, 119, (Jan 14, 1996): C5 col 2 Cohort(s): Mature Women, NLS General Publisher: Washington Post Keyword(s): Career Patterns; Foster Care; Wages, Women; Women; Women's Studies Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Career vs. Family: The overwhelming majority of women still don't have it all. But the chances of getting a big chunk of it are improving for women who seek careers and families. Only about one out of seven women currently between the ages of 38 and 51 has managed to "have it all": A successful career and a family, reports Claudia Goldin, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Goldin analyzed U.S. Census figures as well as data collected from thousands of women who participated in the National Longitudinal Survey, a massive study that began tracking the lives of thousands of young women beginning in 1968. Among middle-aged women with successful careers, only half had children. And among women who had children, fewer than one in five had achieved professional success, Goldin said. She defined professional success for a woman in a number of ways, including "exceeding the income of the male college graduate at the top of the bottom 25 percent of male graduates in two or three consecutive years. "Her definition of family was more straightforward: Having at least one child. |
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Morin, Richard. "Unconventional Wisdom: New Facts and Hot Stats from the Social Sciences. The Happy (Later) Life Of Orphanage Alums." Washington Post, 119, (Jan 14, 1996): C5 col 2. |