Combining Marriage, Motherhood, and Jobs Before World War Ii

Women College Graduates, Classes of 1905-1935

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6079449
AutoresMary E Cookingham (Department of Economics at Michigan State University (Marshall Hall, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, autor de correspondencia)
Año1984
Volumen9
Número2
Páginas178-195
Fecha de publicación1984-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Family History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0363-1990 • E-ISSN: 1552-5473
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/036319908400900205
OpenAlexW2142067277
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas17

This paper is an analysis of the demographic and labor force behavior of women college graduates in the first four decades of the twentieth century. These women's behavior differed from that of nineteenth-century alumnae in several notable ways. First, the later graduates married earlier and morefrequent ly. Second, they were markedly more likely to be married and childless. Third, significant proportions of these classes worked after marriage-both before and after childbearing. An economic model that extends the ideas of Richard A. Easterlin is used to understand better these twentieth-century graduates' behavior and why it differed from that of both earlier college women and other women in their own birth cohorts

Demographic economics · Developed country · Economics · Marital status · Political science · Population · Sociology · World War II · Australian History and Society · Demography · Gender Studies · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law · Psychology