Plans for balancing work and family life: Do women pursuing nontraditional and traditional occupations differ?

O'Connell, Lenahan; Betz, Michael; Kurth, Suzanne B.

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“…Davey (1998) similarly reported that nearly everyone in her sample of Canadian girls who expected to become mothers also anticipated being employed. Qualitative (Machung, 1989;Maines & Hardesty, 1987) and quantitative studies (Baber & Monaghan, 1988;O'Connell, Betz, & Kurth, 1989) of college women have provided similar information.…”

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“…For example, the largest group of high school girls in Dennehy and Mortimer's (1993) study anticipated taking 1 or 2 years off. Moreover, some college women expected to re-enter the full-time workforce slowly, working part-time until their children were in preschool or grade school (O'Connell et al, 1989).…”

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“…(The questions asked of young men were analogous.) One previous study collected information about college women's plans for different stages in their children's lives (O'Connell et al, 1989), but the researchers chose to aggregate the responses into a single scale, and disregarded information about patterns of expected work involvement over time.…”

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Adolescents’ Expectations About Mothers’ Employment: Life Course Patterns and Parental Influence

Weinshenker

2006

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Because of social constraint and personal preference, cutting back and dropping out of the workforce remain common responses to the problem of balancing work and motherhood. To understand whether this phenomenon will continue, adolescents from middle-class, dual-earner families (N=194) were asked how much they expected that they (for girls) or their future partners (for boys) would work while raising children. Nearly all expected new mothers to quit their jobs or reduce their hours temporarily, which signifies either acceptance of, or ignorance of, the penalties of career interruption among girls with high occupational aspirations. Adolescents' expectations were associated with their mothers' employment histories and support for gender egalitarianism, as well as the level of challenge in the home environment.

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Adolescents’ Expectations About Mothers’ Employment: Life Course Patterns and Parental Influence

Weinshenker

2006

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“…Using information on the career plans and earnings expectations of college business school seniors, Blau and Ferber (1990) find that women on average plan to work approximately four years less than men and, of the years spent in the labor force, plan to work five more "part-time" years than men. In another investigation of work plans, O'Connell et al (1989) find that plans to pursue nontraditional professions do not appear to be associated with plans for a nontraditional family life. Along similar lines, Fiorino (1994) examines the occupational choice of women, particularly employment in nontraditional, blue-collar jobs.…”

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Affirmative action, political representation, unions, and female police employment

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Troyer

1999

Journal of Labor Research

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Using data from three time periods (1981, 1987, and 1990/91), we analyze the factors that affect the hiring of female officers by municipal police departments. We find that affirmative action litigation significantly increased hiring of new female recruits, but female political representation in the form of female city councilors or mayors did not significantly affect the gender composition of police recruits. Consistent with co-worker discrimination, we find that hiring of female recruits is negatively related to the proportion of males already employed in the department. Furthermore, male-dominated departments are more likely to employ fitness exams for recruits (a potential barrier to women) than are more integrated departments. The effect of a police union is mixed; there is some evidence that unions boost the hiring of female officers, yet unions are also associated with an increased likelihood of using fitness exams to screen new recruits.

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“…In their study of the impact of gender role attitudes on anticipated career plans, O'Connell, Betz, and Kurth (1989) found that young female university students who planned to pursue careers that were not traditionally women's careers reported less traditional gender role attitudes than did those who planned to enter traditionally women's careers such as nursing. Research also reveals differences in marital role expectations between university-educated women who are career-oriented and those who are family-oriented.…”

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Gender Roles: An Examination of the Hopes and Expectations of the Next Generation of Managers in Canada and China

McKeen

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2005

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Through a survey of 214 Canadian and 160 Chinese business students, we investigated students' hopes and expectations regarding their future spouses' employment and family roles relative to their own. The results of this exploratory study show that a large proportion of the students from both countries hope for equality between spouses, especially in the distribution of domestic tasks. However, significant discrepancies exist between their ideal hopes and their expectations of what will actually happen in reality. Many men and women of both countries expect that the wives will do more of the domestic work and have less prestigious jobs and lower earnings than their husbands. The between-sex and cross-national differences in gender role hopes and expectations were also explored.

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Plans for balancing work and family life: Do women pursuing nontraditional and traditional occupations differ?

Cited by 42 publications

References 18 publications

Adolescents’ Expectations About Mothers’ Employment: Life Course Patterns and Parental Influence

Adolescents’ Expectations About Mothers’ Employment: Life Course Patterns and Parental Influence

Affirmative action, political representation, unions, and female police employment

Gender Roles: An Examination of the Hopes and Expectations of the Next Generation of Managers in Canada and China

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