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Title: Women's Work and Employment Attitudes: A Longitudinal Causal Model
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Ferree, Myra M. |
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Women's Work and Employment Attitudes: A Longitudinal Causal Model Presented: Toronto, Canada, American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, 1981 Cohort(s): Mature Women Publisher: American Sociological Association Keyword(s): Employment; Research Methodology; Work Attitudes Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Although the aggregate of women's employment has been rising while women's sex role attitudes have been becoming more favorable, the nature of the relationship, if any, between work and attitude for individual women has not been adequately examined. Prior studies have suggested a feedback process in which employment affects attitude more than the reverse, but have been flawed by insufficient attention to measurement problems, especially the difficulty differential reliability creates for causal inference. Using a confirmatory model fitting approach to longitudinal data, the present study shows there to be two distinct work-relevant attitudes; while the change in both since l977 is related to the extent of a women's prior employment, only one feeds back into greater labor force participation in subsequent years. The effect of attitude on employment, however, appears to be comparable in magnitude to the effect of employment on attitude when reliability of measurement is taken into account. |
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Bibliography Citation
Ferree, Myra M. "Women's Work and Employment Attitudes: A Longitudinal Causal Model." Presented: Toronto, Canada, American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, 1981. |