Sex-Role Attitudes and Employment Among Women: A Dynamic Model of Change and Continuity

摘要

The study utilizes data from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Labor Market Experience of Young and Mature Women to examine the short-run effects of nontraditional sex-role ideologies on wives' employment and the consequences of such employment for further changes in sex-role attitudes. The analyses demonstrate a small but significant effect of nontraditional attitudes on white wives' extent of employment experience and a substantially larger effect of market participation on later attitudes. However, due to subcultural differences, nontraditionality has no impact on the employment of black married women and employment has little effect on their subsequent attitudes.