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The Social Context of Women's Labor Force Participation: A Comparative Analysis
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In this paper, the authors investigated women's labor force participation as a characteristic of the social structure and found that participation is positively related to economic development and divorce rate and negatively related to fertility and income inequality.Abstract:
Utilizing data from 61 societies, this inquiry focuses on women's labor force participation as a characteristic of the social structure. First, the analysis demonstrates that participation is positively related to economic development and divorce rate and negatively related to fertility and income inequality. While the effect of economic development is mediated by various aspects of familial composition, the most significant effect on female labor force participation is that of income inequality. In societies where inequality is high, women are less likely to join the labor force. The analysis goes on to demonstrate that female labor force participation has consequences for occupational discrimination. The odds that women can achieve high status and well-paid occupations decrease with the proportion of women in the labor force. The findings reported here suggest strongly that the integration of females into the labor force is determined by the shape of the stratification system. Such integration, however,...read more
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TL;DR: This paper analyzed the relationship between women's share of the labor force and the processes of long-term economic development, and macroeconomic changes associated with structural adjustment using cross-country data pooled for 1985 and 1990.
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Donald J. Treiman,Terrell Kermit +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the educational, occupational and income attainment of working women and men, utilizing data from representative national samples of women age 3044, their husbands and men of corresponding age.
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A General Model for the Analysis of Surveys
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