Women at Class Crossroads: Repudiating Conventional Theories of Family Class

Leiulfsrud, Håkon; Woodward, Alison

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“…The rationale of this British 'conventional' method, i.e. classifying married women according to their spouse's and not according to their own occupation, has been both questioned and defended within the general sociological literature on social class (Goldthorpe 1983, Allen 1982, Erikson 1984, Heath and Britten 1984, Stan worth 1984, Abbott and Sapsford 1986, Leiulfsrud and Woodward 1987, Erikson and Goldthorpe 1988. However, many of the participants in this debate seem to prefer one or another household-based measure in allocating women into socioeconomic statuses.…”

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Socioeconomic mortality differentials in men and women according to own and spouse's characteristics in Finland

Martikainen

1995

Sociology Health & Illness

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This paper compares the magnitude of differences in mortality according to own and spouse's socioeconomic characteristics and assesses the importance of cross-classifying these characteristics. The analysis covers all 35-64 year-old married Finnish men and women in the period 1981-85. Relative mortality rates were obtained from Poisson regression models. The analysis shows that socioeconomic mortality differentials within each sex are more or less equally large according to both own and spouse's education or occupational characteristics for a wide range of causes of death. Moreover, among both women and men cross-^iassifications between own and spouse's socioeconomic status do not indicate important mortality differentials over and above those already displayed by its two separate parts, i.e. there were no important interactions between own and spouse's socioeconomic characteristics.The results call into question the argument that the mortality of married women should be analysed on the basis of their husband's socioeconomic characteristics because these characteristics better describe both spouses' socioeconomic standing and are thus more powerful predictors of men's and women's mortality than women's socioeconomic characteristics. It is further concluded that the advantages of cross-classifying both spouses' socioeconomic characteristics in mortality analysis are very limited when these characteristics do not interact with each other.Moreover, cause-specific comparisons between men and women showed that married women's mortality differentials by own educational as well as occupational status were roughly as large as those obtained for men. The larger total mortality differentials among men than women are mainly due to cause of death structure.

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Socioeconomic mortality differentials in men and women according to own and spouse's characteristics in Finland

Martikainen

1995

Sociology Health & Illness

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“…Responding to these feminist eritieisms. several <ilternati\e approaehes to resolving this problem ol the elass position ol married women have heen prt>posed recently (see Marshall et ul.. 1988;Leiulfsrud and Woodward, 1987;1988;Ahhott and Sapsford, 1987;Roherts. 1987;[)ak\ Cnlhert and Arher, 198?…”

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Female Marital Mobility within Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland: A Log-Linear Analysis

Miller

Hayes

1990

The Sociological Review

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A series of log-hncar miHlt'ls predicting the exchange manlal experienees ol Irish wi\cs are prevented lor the Irish F^epubhe. the best cxplanalorv model is nnc in winch ihe icIatiunNliip beUveen a husband's ijccupational slalus and that of his tather-ui-law remains homogene*^us acToss ,ige levels, Wdinen show a marked propensity to marry husbands at a smiilar oceupationvil status as that (*t iheir lathers and long-range upward or downvvaid mobihts aeross the manual/nonmanual divide IS unlikely. This tendene\ towards endog.inn is partieularh pronc^unced within the twts upper non-manual eategories and the manual strata generally Ihe same general m

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“…In contrast, Leiulfsrud and Woodward (1987) claim that the combination of the man's and the woman's positions matters. They show, for example, that the household division of labour differs between cross-class families depending on which of the partners holds which position.…”

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The social patterning of child mortality: the importance of social class, gender, family structure, immigrant status and population density

Östberg

1997

Sociology Health & Illness

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Which structural dimensions are most important for life chances have been the subject of debate. In this study, which uses data from the Swedish Census-linked Deaths registry for the period 1980-86, structural differences in child mortality are analysed. The structural dimensions focused on are social class, gender, family structure, immigrant status and population density. When all structural dimensions were controlled for simultaneously, only social class and gender influenced disease mortality. Of these two structural dimensions, social class seemed to be the most important in terms of producing the greatest differences. For mortality due to accidents, on the other hand, all dimensions proved to be important. The mortality risk was higher for children in single-parent households, for children whose parents were bom outside Sweden, and for children living in the least densely populated areas. The greatest differences in mortahty from accidents, however, were attributable to gender, followed by social class. Furthermore, mortality differences by the father's, the mother's and the family's class position, detennined by the dominance method of class assignment, were compared. The class position of both parents was independently associated with child mortality but the family's position seemed to be the better discriminator in terms of class variation. The implications of these flndings are that death risks during the whole childhood period are socially structured in Sweden and that sodal class is still a stmctural dimension of great importance.

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Women at Class Crossroads: Repudiating Conventional Theories of Family Class

Cited by 37 publications

References 17 publications

Socioeconomic mortality differentials in men and women according to own and spouse's characteristics in Finland

Socioeconomic mortality differentials in men and women according to own and spouse's characteristics in Finland

Female Marital Mobility within Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland: A Log-Linear Analysis

The social patterning of child mortality: the importance of social class, gender, family structure, immigrant status and population density

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