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Employment after Childbearing: A Survival Analysis

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  • Susan Macran

    (University of Leeds, City University)

  • Heather Joshi

    (Social Statistics Research Unit at City University)

  • Shirley Dex

    (ESRC Centre for Research on Micro Social Change, University of Essex)

Abstract

Longitudinal data from two cohorts of women born in 1946 and 1958 are used to describe the break in employment experienced by women after childbearing. This is reducing in length. The decline in the employment gap, observed for women born in 1958 has largely been confined to those women who delayed their childbearing until their late twenties and early thirties and women who were more highly educated. What seems to be occurring is a polarisation between mothers in the more and the less privileged social groups, in terms of their ability to enter and stay in paid employment once they have responsibility for children. Although mothers at both ends of the social scale have to balance the dual demands of paid and domestic work, older and better educated mothers are more likely to be in higher status occupations, to earn adequate income to pay for childcare and to be better placed to take advantage of any changes in employer provisions for working mothers.

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  • Susan Macran & Heather Joshi & Shirley Dex, 1996. "Employment after Childbearing: A Survival Analysis," Work, Employment & Society, British Sociological Association, vol. 10(2), pages 273-296, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:woemps:v:10:y:1996:i:2:p:273-296
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    1. Helen Russell & Philip J. O’Connell, 2004. "Women Returning to Employment, Education and Training in Ireland - An Analysis of Transitions," The Economic and Social Review, Economic and Social Studies, vol. 35(1), pages 1-25.
    2. Jessica Gabriele Walter, 2018. "The adequacy of measures of gender roles attitudes: a review of current measures in omnibus surveys," Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, Springer, vol. 52(2), pages 829-848, March.
    3. McMunn, Anne & Bartley, Mel & Kuh, Diana, 2006. "Women's health in mid-life: Life course social roles and agency as quality," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 63(6), pages 1561-1572, September.
    4. Jacobs, Josephine C. & Van Houtven, Courtney H. & Laporte, Audrey & Coyte, Peter C., 2015. "Baby Boomer caregivers in the workforce: Do they fare better or worse than their predecessors?," The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, Elsevier, vol. 6(C), pages 89-101.
    5. Waldfogel, Jane & Higuchi, Yoshio & Abe, Masahiro, 1998. "Maternity leave policies and women's employment after childbirth: evidence from the United States, Britain and Japan," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 6533, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    6. Andrew Jenkins, 2004. "Women, Lifelong Learning and Employment," CEE Discussion Papers 0039, Centre for the Economics of Education, LSE.

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