6. Career Clocks: Forked Roads

Williams, Sonya; Han, Shin‐Kap

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“…A life-course approach considers how people's lives unfold and are shaped by social and historical contexts (Elder 1998;Moen and Han 2001). Moreover, the life-course perspective examines what happens at transition points, such as the end of high school, and how these transitions are shaped by gender (Moen and Han 2001;Williams and Han 2003). The perspective also sheds light on how early life opportunities and constraints shapes the sequencing of their future life trajectories (Dannefer 2003;Willson, Shuey, and Elder 2007;Damaske and Frech 2016).…”

Section: Gendered and Classed Aspirations Over The Life Coursementioning

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We Won’t Be Able to Find Jobs Here: How Growing Up in Rural America Shapes Decisions About Work

Niccolai

Damaske

Park

2022

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agriculture, manufacturing, fossil fuel mining, and drilling-experienced industry collapse over the past thirty years (Marcus and Krupnick 2017; Nelson 2016; Schafft and Jackson 2010). Concerned with the human impact of these economic changes, researchers and policymakers alike have decried a rural "brain drain"-an out-migration pattern by which bright, motivated, and educated young people flee their

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Section: Gendered and Classed Aspirations Over The Life Coursementioning

confidence: 99%

We Won’t Be Able to Find Jobs Here: How Growing Up in Rural America Shapes Decisions About Work

Niccolai

Damaske

Park

2022

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“…Gendered social networks can affect job opportunities because historically women have less social capital than men, particularly the forms that are privileged in the labor market (Eagly & Carli, 2007). Research has shown that women tend to have more unstable work careers than men (Williams & Han, 2003), due to their 3 disproportionate care for children and other family members, particularly in contexts with weak social welfare and workplace policies. Instability or breaks in employment can impact the number and depth of social resources women can access when searching for jobs (Campbell, 1988).…”

Section: Network and Job Opportunities Shaped By Gender And Racementioning

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Race, Gender, and Networks: How Teachers’ Social Connections Structure Access to Job Opportunities in Districts With School Choice

2022

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Research in sociology demonstrates the way social connections shape access to information about job opportunities. In education, we understand less about how social networks impact the job process for marginalized teachers and teachers in nontraditional labor markets. This study examines how teachers in New Orleans and Detroit, cities with high concentrations of charter schools, use their networks to search for jobs, and how their experiences vary by race and gender. We find that in choice-rich environments, there was an extensive reliance on social networks in the hiring process, and teachers had different access to key social networks that can help to land jobs. Hiring decisions and unequal access to job opportunities among teacher candidates, in part due to the reliance on networks, created conditions where teachers who cultivated stronger networks, or with access to the “right” networks, had greater opportunity, with implications for racial and gender equity and diversity.

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“…Hynes and Clarkberg (2005) identified six patterns in women's first and second birth periods, ranging from increased labor participation to exiting the labor force. Women's career trajectories are likely to be intermittent, fluctuating over time, reflecting the fluidity of women's employment status (Vandenheuvel, 1997; Williams & Han, 2003).…”

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Labor Market Outcomes of Professional Women with Two Children after the One‐Child Policy in China

Shen

Jiang

2020

Journal of Social Issues

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Since the implementation of the two-child policy in China in 2016, it is unclear how professional women's labor force outcomes and family commitments have changed. Using interviews with 26 professional women with two children in Shanghai, we examined their work-life transitions and labor market outcomes. We found that the overarching constraints the interviewees faced included a lack of institutional childcare support, low paternal participation and increased physical and cognitive childcare labor. The women also experienced different constraining and enabling factors, leading to four types of labor market outcomes: enhancement, rebound, interruption and stagnation. Most of the interviewees who experienced career upward mobility after giving birth to a second child were urban singleton daughters who received tremendous parental support. Some participants experienced career interruption due to a lack of social support. The state should ensure family-friendly work environments and promote paternal participation to reduce women's work-life conflict and address gender inequality.

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6. Career Clocks: Forked Roads

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We Won’t Be Able to Find Jobs Here: How Growing Up in Rural America Shapes Decisions About Work

We Won’t Be Able to Find Jobs Here: How Growing Up in Rural America Shapes Decisions About Work

Race, Gender, and Networks: How Teachers’ Social Connections Structure Access to Job Opportunities in Districts With School Choice

Labor Market Outcomes of Professional Women with Two Children after the One‐Child Policy in China

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