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Title: Work Commitment Among Young Women: Its Relation to Labor Force Participation, Marriage, and Childbearing
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Spitze, Glenna D. |
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Work Commitment Among Young Women: Its Relation to Labor Force Participation, Marriage, and Childbearing Final Report, Employment and Training Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, 1979 Cohort(s): Young Women Publisher: U.S. Department of Labor Keyword(s): Children; Employment; Job Satisfaction; Marital Dissolution; Marriage; Work Attitudes The research analyzes the relations between young women's attitudes and preferences about market work and their labor force and family-building experiences in early adulthood, focusing on the causal relations between early employment and work-related attitudes, and between these attitudes and the timing of family formation. Data over a five-year period on women age 14 to 24 in l968 are taken from the NLS of Young Women. The major thrust of the findings suggests that work-related attitudes and preferences of young women are highly mutable during early adulthood, and relate only minimally to the timing or quality of early labor force experiences. Long term preferences for market work are linked to family building and dissolution. Women with a taste for paid employment delay marriage and childbearing, presumably to allow time for preparation for market work, and also are more likely than others to dissolve a marriage. Taste for market work decreases upon first marriage but increases with marital dissolution or the birth of a child, presumably due to changes in resources. |
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Spitze, Glenna D. "Work Commitment Among Young Women: Its Relation to Labor Force Participation, Marriage, and Childbearing." Final Report, Employment and Training Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, 1979. |