Research Catalog

Title

Women, work, and family : dimensions of change in American society / Frank L. Mott, with Steven H. Sandell [and others].

Author

Mott, Frank.

Publication

Lexington, Mass. : Lexington Books, ©1978.

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Details

Additional Authors

Ohio State University. Center for Human Resource Research.

Description

xii, 153 pages : graphs; 24 cm

Subject

• 1960-1980
• Young women > United States > Attitudes > Longitudinal studies
• Work and family > United States > Longitudinal studies
• Social conditions
• Work and family
• Young women > Attitudes
• Berufstätigkeit
• Familie
• Frau
• Familie Biologie
• United States > Social conditions > 1960-1980 > Longitudinal studies
• United States

Genre/Form

Longitudinal studies.

Note

• A project of members of the staff of the Center for Human Resource Research of Ohio State University.
• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 147-152.

Contents

Introduction and overview / Frank L. Mott -- Young women's decisions to attend college : desires, expectations, and realizations / Steven H. Sandell -- Pregnancy, motherhood, and work activity / Frank L. Mott and David Shapiro -- Sex segregation in the labor market : an analysis of young college women's occupational preferences / Patricia K. Brito and Carol L. Jusenius -- Work attachment, investments in human capital, and the earnings of young women / David Shapiro and Timothy J. Carr -- The migration of young families : an economic perspective / Steven H. Sandell and Peter J. Koenig -- The causes and consequences of marital breakdown / Frank L. Mott and Sylvia F. Moore -- Highlights of the volume and some policy implications / Frank L. Mott -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the authors.

ISBN

• 0669020923
• 9780669020922
• 0669020293

LCCN

77018329

OCLC

• ocm03966409
• 3966409
• SCSB-108980

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library