Work Orientation and Wives' Employment Careers: An Evaluation of Hakim's Preference Theory  

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Man, Yee Kan

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Work & Occupations vol. 34 no. 4 (Nov. 2007), page 430-462.
Topik: employment; gender-role attitudes; preference theory; work orientation
Fulltext: 430.pdf (277.42KB)

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This article uses work-life history data from the British Household Panel Survey (1991–2001) to examine married/cohabiting women’s work histories and their gender-role attitudes. Findings suggest that women’s employment careers are affected by both preferences and constraints. The presence of dependent children poses less of a barrier to full-time work for women with work-centered attitudes than other women. Nevertheless, women having a continuous employment career tend to be childless. Finally, there is a reciprocal relationship between gender-role attitudes and women’s labor market participation, suggesting that preferences are changeable according to labor market experience.

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