| Abstrakt: |
This paper investigates how fathers' and mothers' education and occupational status affect the educational and occupational attainment of sons and daugh ters, and how these effects have changed across the course of this century. I use nationally-representative data from the 1973 Social Mobility in Australia Project (N = 4939) and 1984 National Social Science Survey (N = 3012) to test my more inclusive and 'gender-sensitive' model of the status attainment process. The results suggest that the status attainment process of men and women is very similar. With the exception of educational attainment, in which mothers influence daughters more than they do sons, there is no evidence of gender-typing within the family: parents are no more likely to influence the educational and occupational attainment of their like-sexed than their opposite- sexed children. Consistent with modernisation theory, education is the most important factor behind occupational success while the direct influence of social background dwindles. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER] |
