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How Education Shapes Women’s Work and Family Lives Across Race and Ethnicity

Drawing on life course and intersectional approaches, this study examines how education shapes the intertwined domains of work and family across race and ethnicity. By applying multichannel sequence analysis and cluster analysis to the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, we identify a typolo...

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Autores principales: Pessin, Léa, Damaske, Sarah, Frech, Adrianne
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10617465/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37470806
http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00703370-10878053
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description Drawing on life course and intersectional approaches, this study examines how education shapes the intertwined domains of work and family across race and ethnicity. By applying multichannel sequence analysis and cluster analysis to the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, we identify a typology of life course trajectories of work and family and test for the interactive associations of race and ethnicity with college education for different trajectory types. While our results show statistically significant and often sizable education effects across racial and ethnic groups for most of the work–family clusters, they also suggest that the size and direction of the education effect vary widely across groups. Educational attainment plays an outsize role in shaping Black women’s work–family lives, increasing their access to steady work and partnerships, while educational attainment primarily works to increase White women’s participation in part-time work. In contrast, Latina women’s work–family trajectories are less responsive to their educational attainment. In combination, the racialized role of education and persistent racial and ethnic gaps across the education distribution yield unequal patterns in work–family strategies among Black, Latina, and White women.
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spelling pubmed-106174652023-10-31 How Education Shapes Women’s Work and Family Lives Across Race and Ethnicity Pessin, Léa Damaske, Sarah Frech, Adrianne Demography Article Drawing on life course and intersectional approaches, this study examines how education shapes the intertwined domains of work and family across race and ethnicity. By applying multichannel sequence analysis and cluster analysis to the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, we identify a typology of life course trajectories of work and family and test for the interactive associations of race and ethnicity with college education for different trajectory types. While our results show statistically significant and often sizable education effects across racial and ethnic groups for most of the work–family clusters, they also suggest that the size and direction of the education effect vary widely across groups. Educational attainment plays an outsize role in shaping Black women’s work–family lives, increasing their access to steady work and partnerships, while educational attainment primarily works to increase White women’s participation in part-time work. In contrast, Latina women’s work–family trajectories are less responsive to their educational attainment. In combination, the racialized role of education and persistent racial and ethnic gaps across the education distribution yield unequal patterns in work–family strategies among Black, Latina, and White women. 2023-08-01 /pmc/articles/PMC10617465/ /pubmed/37470806 http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00703370-10878053 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).
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