Shall I Help You My Dear? Examining Variations in Social Support for Career Advancement within Partnerships

Golsch, Katrin

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“…Andere Autoren betonen darüber hinaus aber auch die zentrale Rolle des Partners (als "starke Beziehung") für die individuellen Karrieremöglichkeiten (vgl. Róbert/Bukodi 2002;Baerts et al 2010;Bernasco et al 1998;Golsch 2012;Sonnert 2005): Auch die Ressourcen der Partner ermöglichen demnach Transfers von Humankapital (etwa Wissensaustausch) und sozialem Kapital (etwa Zugang zu beruflichen Netzwerken). Zudem können höher qualifizierte Partner nicht nur Ressourcen und Informationen bereitstellen, sondern bringen auch häufiger egalitärere Einstellungen und mehr Verständnis für die Erfordernisse der beruflichen Karriere des Partners mit: "Higher-educated individuals may simply create a more stimulating climate for their partner to pursue occupational status" (Bernasco et al 1998, S. 18 (Róbert/Bukodi 2002;Baerts et al 2010;Verbakel/de Graaf 2008;Bernasco et al 1998).…”

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Berufliche Aufstiege im partnerschaftlichen Kontext – Zur Bedeutung von Homogamie und sozialer Unterstützung durch den Partner

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Bröckel²,

Golsch³

2014

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Based upon research on “coupled careers”, the partnership is seen as an important context where not only career opportunities but also barriers are generated. Using data from the Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), this article pays particular attention to status homogamy and partners’ social support as beneficial aspects of partnerships for career advancement. The analysis of dual-earner couples reveals that men are more likely to move up into high occupational positions when they live in a highly qualified status homogameous partnership where both partners are highly educated and work in similar occupations. This is in line with arguments from social capital theory assuming an exchange of knowledge and understanding between partners especially in homogamous partnerships. Furthermore, the analysis shows that for women partners’ social support is of significant importance for gaining a high occupational position: Women are more likely to advance their careers if they report that their partners support their career advancement, and if the partner carries out the higher amount of domestic work. Because in Germany the division of domestic labor is still traditional, with women carrying out the lion’s share of domestic work, this “support gap” plays a significant role in explaining the underrepresentation of women in high occupational positions, as the analysis shows. Zusammenfassung Als wichtiger Kontext, in dem Aufstiegschancen, aber auch -hindernisse generiert werden, gilt die Partnerschaft. Der Artikel knüpft mit Daten des Sozio-ökonomischen Panels an Forschung zu „coupled careers“ an und fokussiert insbesondere auf Status-Homogamie und soziale Unterstützungsleistungen als mögliche karriereförderliche Aspekte von Partnerschaften. Die Analyse von erwerbstätigen Frauen und Männern in Doppelverdiener- Partnerschaften verdeutlicht, dass insbesondere Männer häufig in hohe berufliche Positionen aufsteigen, wenn sie und ihre Partnerin im gleichen Berufsfeld arbeiten und beide eine hohe Bildung aufweisen. Dies kann mit sozialkapitaltheoretischen Überlegungen erklärt werden, die von einem partnerschaftlichen Austausch beruflicher Netzwerke, Wissenstransfers und Verständnis gerade bei dem Vorliegen einer solchen Status- Homoganie. Darüber hinaus zeigen die Analyseergebnisse, dass insbesondere für Frauen die soziale Unterstützung durch den Partner wichtig ist, um eine hohe berufliche Position zu erreichen. So steigen Frauen signifikant häufiger auf, wenn sie angeben, dass ihr Partner sie im beruflichen Fortkommen unterstützt, und wenn er den höheren Anteil an Hausarbeit verrichtet. Da die partnerschaftliche Hausarbeitsteilung in Deutschland nach wie vor stark zu Lasten der Frauen geht, spielt ein solcher „support gap“ zur Erklärung der Unterrepräsentanz von Frauen in hohen beruflichen Positionen eine entscheidende Rolle, wie die Analyse verdeutlicht.

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Berufliche Aufstiege im partnerschaftlichen Kontext – Zur Bedeutung von Homogamie und sozialer Unterstützung durch den Partner

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Bröckel²,

Golsch³

2014

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Using Factorial Surveys to Study Justice Perceptions: Five Methodological Problems of Attitudinal Justice Research

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DFG Research Center (SFB) "From Heterogeneities to Inequalities"Whether fat or thin, male or female, young or old -people are different. Alongside their physical features, they also differ in terms of nationality and ethnicity; in their cultural preferences, lifestyles, attitudes, orientations, and philosophies; in their competencies, qualifications, and traits; and in their professions. But how do such heterogeneities lead to social inequalities? What are the social mechanisms that underlie this process? These are the questions pursued by the DFG Research Center (Sonderforschungsbereich (SFB)) "From Heterogeneities to Inequalities" at Bielefeld University, which was approved by the German Research Foundation (DFG) as "SFB 882" on May 25, 2011.In the social sciences, research on inequality is dispersed across different research fields such as education, the labor market, equality, migration, health, or gender. One goal of the SFB is to integrate these fields, searching for common mechanisms in the emergence of inequality that can be compiled into a typology. More than fifty senior and junior researchers and the Bielefeld University Library are involved in the SFB. Along with sociologists, it brings together scholars from the Bielefeld University faculties of Business Administration and Economics, Educational Science, Health Science, and Law, as well as from the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) in Berlin and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. In addition to carrying out research, the SFB is concerned to nurture new academic talent, and therefore provides doctoral training in its own integrated Research Training Group. A data infrastructure project has also been launched to archive, prepare, and disseminate the data gathered. We assume that individuals evaluate inequalities in terms of whether they consider them just, and that they hold particular attitudes toward justice because, and as long as, these help them to attain their fundamental goals and to solve, especially, the problems that arise through cooperation with other people (cooperative relations). As a result, attitudes on justice are not viewed either as rigidly stable orientations across the life span or as "Sunday best beliefs" i.e. short-lived opinions that are adjusted continuously to fit situational interests. Instead, they are regarded as being shaped by the opportunities for learning and making comparisons in different phases of the life course and different social contexts. ResearchThe goal of the project is to use longitudinal survey data to explain why individuals have particular notions of justice. The key aspect is taken to be changes in the social contextparticularly households, social networks, or workplaces -in which individuals are embedded across their life course. This is because social contexts offer opportunities to make social comparisons and engage in social learning, processes that are decisive in the formation of particular attitudes to justice. The project will test this empirically by setting up a special longitud...

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Shall I Help You My Dear? Examining Variations in Social Support for Career Advancement within Partnerships

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Berufliche Aufstiege im partnerschaftlichen Kontext – Zur Bedeutung von Homogamie und sozialer Unterstützung durch den Partner

Berufliche Aufstiege im partnerschaftlichen Kontext – Zur Bedeutung von Homogamie und sozialer Unterstützung durch den Partner

Using Factorial Surveys to Study Justice Perceptions: Five Methodological Problems of Attitudinal Justice Research

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