| Autor: |
O'Brien, Laureen K., Lubold, Amanda Marie |
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Conference Papers - American Sociological Association; 2016, p1-35, 35p |
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Recent qualitative scholarship has highlighted the importance of negative workplace relationships and structural inequalities in predicting highly-educated mothers' departures from top managerial and executive jobs, a phenomenon known as "opting-out." This quantitative research examines whether perceptions of discrimination at work affect mothers' opting-out behavior using data from the National Longitudinal Study Young Women Cohort (1968-2003). We find that while women who perceive discrimination actually experience fewer weeks out of the labor force, the effects of discrimination perceptions operate differently for white and nonwhite women. Non-white women who perceive discrimination experience more time out of the labor force than their white counterparts. Other factors, such as marital status and number of children, do have a positive effect on women's absence from the workforce. We conclude that opting-out is a contemporary adaptation to work-family conflict, rather than a long-standing practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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