A Graphical Chain Model for Reciprocal Relationships Between Women’s Gender Role Attitudes and Labour Force Participation

Berrington, Ann; Hu, Yongjian; Smith, Peter; Sturgis, Patrick

doi:10.1111/j.1467-985x.2007.00510.x

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“…In line with previous studies (Berrington et al, 2008;Himmelweit and Sigala, 2004), evidence is found of a reciprocal relationship between women's gender role attitudes and labour market participation, suggesting that behaviour and attitudes reinforce each other. Women with less traditional attitudes before having children decrease their labour market hours less.…”

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“…They find increases in educational attainment and full-time employment result in more egalitarian Work,employment and society 26(3) attitudes, while marriage, parenthood and reductions in paid work are associated with more traditional attitudes (Cunningham et al, 2005;Fan and Marini, 2000;Himmelweit and Sigala, 2004;Kan, 2007). Berrington et al (2008) suggest that it is not entry into parenthood as such, but the change in women's economic activity as a consequence of parenthood which is associated with attitude change. Himmelweit and Sigala (2004) show that changes in attitudes or behaviour are more likely when mothers' labour market status is inconsistent with their attitudes towards women's employment.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Maternal employment and gender role attitudes: dissonance among British men and women in the transition to parenthood

Schober

Scott

2012

Work, Employment and Society

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractThis study examines how changes in gender role attitudes of couples after childbirth relate to women's paid work and the type of childcare used. Identifying attitude-practice dissonances matters because how they get resolved influences mothers' future employment. Previous research examined changes in women's attitudes and employment, or spouses' adaptations to each others' attitudes. This is extended by considering how women and men in couples simultaneously adapt to parenthood in terms of attitude and behavioural changes and by exploring indirect effects of economic constraints. Structural equation models and regression analysis based on the British Household Panel Survey (1991)(1992)(1993)(1994)(1995)(1996)(1997)(1998)(1999)(2000)(2001)(2002)(2003)(2004)(2005)(2006)(2007) are applied. The results suggest that less traditional attitudes among women and men are more likely in couples where women's postnatal labour market participation and the use of formal childcare contradict their traditional prenatal attitudes. Women's prenatal earnings have an indirect effect on attitude change of both partners through incentives for maternal employment.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Maternal employment and gender role attitudes: dissonance among British men and women in the transition to parenthood

Schober

Scott

2012

Work, Employment and Society

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118

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“…Women with modern 'egalitarian' attitudes are generally found to work more (hours) than women with traditional attitudes (Bolzendahl and Myers, 2004;Van Wel and Knijn, 2006). The same holds true for the working-mother role model during childhood (Berrington et al, 2008;Myers and Booth, 2002). The most obvious differences in social norms and attitudes exist between working and non-working women.…”

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A matter of culture and cost? A comparison of the employment decisions made by mothers with a lower, intermediate and higher level of education in the Netherlands

Cloïn

Keuzenkamp

Plantenga

2011

Work, Employment and Society

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This article is focused on financial-economic and socio-cultural factors in explaining differences in labour participation and working hours of Dutch mothers with diverging educational levels. The data used are taken from a survey held among approximately 1700 women in the Netherlands from two-parent households with children up to 12 years old. The models for participation and working hours are simultaneously estimated for different levels of education. It is found that socio-cultural factors have slightly more impact on the employment decisions of lower educated mothers compared to their higher educated counterparts, although the differences are only minor. Despite the level of education, socio-cultural factors appear to be more important in mothers' employment decisions than financial-economic factors. In addition, both factors are better predictors for mothers' decisions to participate than for their number of working hours; demographic variables are found to be the most important predictor for mothers' working hours.

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“…In fact, recent research points to the dual causality between preferences and outcome, Himmelweit and Sagwala (2005) find preferences to change to reflect outcome. While Berrington et al (2008), using graphical chain models, establish women to be more likely to change their attitudes than pursue market outcomes on the basis of their attitudes.…”

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Sacrificing Their Careers for Their Families? An Analysis of the Penalty to Motherhood in Europe

Gash

2009

Soc Indic Res

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This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. Permanent Vanessa Gash, University of ManchesterAbstract: This paper examines the extent of and the mechanisms behind the penalty to motherhood in six European countries. Each country provides different levels of support for maternal employment allowing us to determine institutional effects on labour market outcome. While mothers tend to earn less than nonmothers, the penalty to motherhood is considerably lower in countries with policy support for working mothers. The paper establishes the United Kingdom and West Germany to have the least policy support for working mothers as well as the largest penalties to motherhood.

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A Graphical Chain Model for Reciprocal Relationships Between Women’s Gender Role Attitudes and Labour Force Participation

Cited by 53 publications

References 22 publications

Maternal employment and gender role attitudes: dissonance among British men and women in the transition to parenthood

Maternal employment and gender role attitudes: dissonance among British men and women in the transition to parenthood

A matter of culture and cost? A comparison of the employment decisions made by mothers with a lower, intermediate and higher level of education in the Netherlands

Sacrificing Their Careers for Their Families? An Analysis of the Penalty to Motherhood in Europe

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