Postponing Marriage: The Influence of Schooling, Working, and Work Plans for Young Women.

Autor/in	Cherlin, Andrew
Titel	Postponing Marriage: The Influence of Schooling, Working, and Work Plans for Young Women.
Quelle	(1978), (43 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	grafische Darstellungen; Tabellen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Tagungsbericht; Attitude Change; Blacks; Change Agents; Comparative Analysis; Educational Background; Females; Higher Education; Longitudinal Studies; Marital Status; Marriage; Occupational Aspiration; Racial Factors; Relationship; Secondary Education; Statistical Analysis; Trend Analysis; Whites + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Attitudinal change; Einstellungsänderung; Black person; Schwarzer; Vorbildung; Weibliches Geschlecht; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Familienstand; Ehe; Berufsneigung; Berufsziel; Wechselbeziehung; Sekundarbereich; Statistische Analyse; Trendanalyse; White; Weißer
Abstract	The paper examines trends of postponement of marriage among women in their early twenties. Data for the study were taken from a national longitudinal study of 5,159 women (ages 14 to 24) who were interviewed from 1968 to 1975. The author specifically examined the young women for three characteristics: current employment status, level of education, and long-run expectations about labor force participation. Between 1969 and 1975 the proportion of single women in their early twenties who planned to be housewives decreased sharply. Consequently, the change in future work plans reduced the chances that a woman in her early twenties would marry in the next few years. Previously, single women in their early twenties who had more education were more likely to marry in the near future. Yet because the decline in those planning to be housewives was greater for women with more education, women whose level of education gave them a stronger marriage market position were more likely to change their future work plans in a way which reduced their probability of marriage. The author compares aspects of this trend among black and white women, and explores implications of the shift in work expectations for other changes in family life. (Author/AV)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01