Rachel A Rosenfeld
Biographic Data
| ID | 106174 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel A Rosenfeld |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel A |
| FAMILY NAME | Rosenfeld |
| SIGNATURE | ROSENFELD R A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 854 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Differential Recovery Migration across the Rural–Urban Gradient: Minimal and Short‐Term Population Gains for Rural Disaster‐Affected Gulf Coast Counties
Places affected or threatened by extreme environmental disturbances confront a number of significant issues, including whether their populations will stay the same or change through migration. Research on Hurricanes Katrina and Rita shows some displaced residents returned to their disaster‐affected communities once the built environment was restored, new migrants settled in affected places as part of the rebuilding effort, and the regional migrat…
Occupational Sex Segregation and Family Formation in the Former East and West Germany
This article examines patterns of occupational sex segregation for women and men born in the 1950s and early 1960s in the former East and West Germany prior to unification. Given the nature of family policies, we had expected to find an increase in the gender-typicality of occupations as individuals married and had children especially in the West. Yet, despite high levels of occupational sex segregation and clear evidence of the 'holding power' o…
Gender and Work in Germany: Before and After Reunification
New state and market arrangements were twice imposed on the residents of the eastern part of Germany, once when Germany was divided in 1949 and again when it was reunified in 1990; these changes produced a unique natural experiment concerning the effect of policies and institutions on the gendered nature of work. This review synthesizes research on gender equality in paid and unpaid work in East versus West Germany during the decades immediately …
Occupational sex segregation in state socialist and market economies: Levels, patterns, and change in East and West Germany, 1980s and 1998
Women's employment exit and reentry: Differences among whites, blacks, and Hispanics
How Do Children Matter? A Comparison of Gender Earnings Inequality for Young Adults in the Former East Germany and the Former West Germany
The former Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) and the former German Democratic Republic (East Germany) differed sharply in their family policies. We follow 1950s and early 1960s birth cohorts from their first jobs to 1989 to see in what ways having children affected earnings for women and men. For the FRG, we find that being a parent had stronger earnings effects (positive for men and negative for women) than in the GDR, with much of this…
Gender Differences in Supervisory Authority: Variation among Advanced Industrialized Democracies
American Sociological Association Elections, 1975 to 1996: "Exploring Explanations for "Feminization
Since 1972, the proportion of women in American Sociological Association governance positions has increased. Woman candidates for ASA offices and the ASA Council have been overrepresented and generally have had higher odds of winning than male candidates. The authors examine three possible factors behind these trends : the general impact of the women's movement, the influence of Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS), and elite dilution. Liberal…
Discrimination, Jobs, and Politics: The Struggle for Equal Employment Opportunity in the United States since the New Deal
At a time when many leading civil rights officials are obfuscating the history of civil rights in the USA, and undermining enforcement methods which have proved effective, this study challenges conventional wisdom on the genesis of civil rights legislation in the US. It seeks to advance our knowledge of the post-New Deal civil rights debates, using empirical, quantitative data to answer some of the many questions concerning the relative impact of…
Women's Work Histories
This book chapter focuses on changes in the patterns of employment in the US the compatibility of jobs with family responsibilities and the meaning of employment to women. Gainfully employed women represented 20% of the work force aged over 14 years in 1900 and in 1992 75% of women aged 20-44 years worked. The character of employment changed before and after World War II. In 1900 working women were mostly White single young and native-born and ma…
Women's Part-Time Work: A Cross-National Comparison
Since the mid-twentieth century, part-time work has increased more than full-time work in most advanced capitalist countries. Part-time work is still mostly women's work, yet the level of part-time employment varies across nations, from approximately one-fifth of employed US women, to more than half of employed Norwegian women in the 1980s. In this article, we discuss how country-level labour demand, work and family policies, and political and la…
Theory on Gender/Feminism on Theory
How do various social theories explain gender inequality? In this collection of original essays, prominent sociologists discuss the strengths and the limitations of the theoretical traditions within which they have worked: Marxism, world system theory, macrostructural theories, rational choice theory, neofunctionalism, psychoanalysis, ethnomethodology, expectation states theory, poststructuralist symbolic interactionism, and network theory
Life Histories and Generations, Volumes 1 and 2
Getting a Good Job: Rank and Institutional Prestige in Academic Psychologists' Careers
Studies of academic career trajectories have generally focused on either the rank of jobs or the prestige of the institutions in which they are held. This article uses both dimensions to measure goodness of jobs. It first looks at the association between these two measures. Finding that they are weakly negatively associated, it then examines the determinants of these two dimensions of a good academic job immediately after graduate school and at l…
Occupational Sex Segregation and Women's Early Career Job Shifts
Previous research has found considerable mobility between 'male' and 'female' occupations across the work life. This article uses employment histories from the Washington State Career Development Study to examine the frequency and determinants of jobs shifts that take women across gender-type boundaries. It was found that many women go between sex-typical and sex-atypical occupations with a change of jobs. Higher work commitment tends to slow mov…
Job Mobility and Career Processes
Renewed interest in the movement of people between jobs highlights the roles of time and opportunity structures in career development. Vacancy-driven models provide the background for many conceptions of the opportunity structure, with recent work on labor markets and economic segmentation contributing characterization of particular structures. Individuals' job-relevant resources, constraints, and contacts interact with structural characteristics…
The contemporary U.S. women's movement: An empirical example of competition theory
Charting the Life Course
Gender Inequality in the Labor Market: A Cross-National Perspective
While women earn less, on average, than men in all advanced industrialized countries, countries vary in the size of the gender earnings gap We use data from nine advanced industrialized democracies to investigate the extent to which the ratio of women's to men's income is associated with sex segregation, labor's power and inclusiveness, leftist parties' strength, family policies, labor demand, and relative human capital levels. In general, labor'…
Working Parents: Transformations in Gender Roles and Public Policies in Sweden
Work in the Family and in the Labor Market: A Cross-National, Reciprocal Analysis
The authors examine the reciprocal relations between mens and womens family involvement and labor market work in the US Canada NOrway and Sweden. The analysis seeks to overcome 2 major limitations of past research on family division of labor and labor market employment: studies of 1 type of work generally ignore the other and are usually restricted to 1 country. Hours of labor market employment relate negatively to US womens percentage of househo…
A Cross-National Comparison of the Gender Gap in Income
This article examines national labor-market samples from two "dualist" countries (the United States and Canada) and two "corporatist" countries (Norway and Sweden). Labor-market location is less powerful in predicting income in Norway and Sweden where they have more inclusive employment policies. In Sweden, though, the labor-market variables are more important in explaining the income gap. Family effects (marital status and number of children) ar…
Women, work, and identities
Women's Occupations and Local Labor Markets: 1950 To 1980
Sex Role Changes: Technology, Politics, and Policy . Marcia Lynn Whicker , Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld Female Revolt: Women's Movements in World and Historical Perspective . Janet Saltzman Chafetz , Anth…
Gender and Work in Germany: Before and After Reunification
New state and market arrangements were twice imposed on the residents of the eastern part of Germany, once when Germany was divided in 1949 and again when it was reunified in 1990; these changes produced a unique natural experiment concerning the effect of policies and institutions on the gendered nature of work. This review synthesizes research on gender equality in paid and unpaid work in East versus West Germany during the decades immediately …
Job Mobility and Career Processes
Renewed interest in the movement of people between jobs highlights the roles of time and opportunity structures in career development. Vacancy-driven models provide the background for many conceptions of the opportunity structure, with recent work on labor markets and economic segmentation contributing characterization of particular structures. Individuals' job-relevant resources, constraints, and contacts interact with structural characteristics…
Disorder in the Life Course: How Common and Does It Matter
In this paper we explore the patterning of early adulthood by examining the ordering of activities that make up nonfamily careers and how that ordering affects the timing of family transitions in particular the transition to parenthood. Data are from the U.S. National Longitudinal Survey of the High School Class of 1972 and its follow-ups. (EXCERPT
Race and Sex Differences in Career Dynamics
In this paper, career differences by race and sex are analyzed. Careers are defined as trajectories of socioeconomic status and wages and are described by a linear differential equation model. It is assumed that the different groups defined by race and sex tend to be in different labor markets and economic sectors and to face different opportunity structures even within labor market divisions. This assumption guides predictions for and interpreta…
A Cross-National Comparison of the Gender Gap in Income
This article examines national labor-market samples from two "dualist" countries (the United States and Canada) and two "corporatist" countries (Norway and Sweden). Labor-market location is less powerful in predicting income in Norway and Sweden where they have more inclusive employment policies. In Sweden, though, the labor-market variables are more important in explaining the income gap. Family effects (marital status and number of children) ar…
Women's Intergenerational Occupational Mobility
Several recent papers have studied women's intergenerational occupational mobility as movement from father's to daughter's occupation. This paper suggests that mother's occupation also is an important dimension of this mobility process. Analysis of data from a national sample of women 30 to 44 in 1967 shows that, when controlling for age and race, a necessary and sufficient model of women's intergenerational occupational mobility includes mother'…
Work in the Family and in the Labor Market: A Cross-National, Reciprocal Analysis
The authors examine the reciprocal relations between mens and womens family involvement and labor market work in the US Canada NOrway and Sweden. The analysis seeks to overcome 2 major limitations of past research on family division of labor and labor market employment: studies of 1 type of work generally ignore the other and are usually restricted to 1 country. Hours of labor market employment relate negatively to US womens percentage of househo…
Gender Inequality in the Labor Market: A Cross-National Perspective
While women earn less, on average, than men in all advanced industrialized countries, countries vary in the size of the gender earnings gap We use data from nine advanced industrialized democracies to investigate the extent to which the ratio of women's to men's income is associated with sex segregation, labor's power and inclusiveness, leftist parties' strength, family policies, labor demand, and relative human capital levels. In general, labor'…
Women's Part-Time Work: A Cross-National Comparison
Since the mid-twentieth century, part-time work has increased more than full-time work in most advanced capitalist countries. Part-time work is still mostly women's work, yet the level of part-time employment varies across nations, from approximately one-fifth of employed US women, to more than half of employed Norwegian women in the 1980s. In this article, we discuss how country-level labour demand, work and family policies, and political and la…
Sex Segregation and Sectors: An Analysis of Gender Differences in Returns from Employer Changes
Sweet, James 1973 Women in the Labor Force. New York: Seminar Press. Vanek, Joann 1974 spent in housework. Scientific American 231:116-20. 1980 work, wage work, and sexual equality. Pp. 275-91 in Sarah F. Berk (ed.), Women and Household Labor. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage. Walker, K. and M. Woods 1976 Time Use: A Measure of Household Production of Family Goods and Services. Washington, D.C.: American Home Economics Association
Occupational Sex Segregation and Women's Early Career Job Shifts
Previous research has found considerable mobility between 'male' and 'female' occupations across the work life. This article uses employment histories from the Washington State Career Development Study to examine the frequency and determinants of jobs shifts that take women across gender-type boundaries. It was found that many women go between sex-typical and sex-atypical occupations with a change of jobs. Higher work commitment tends to slow mov…
Occupational Sex Segregation and Family Formation in the Former East and West Germany
This article examines patterns of occupational sex segregation for women and men born in the 1950s and early 1960s in the former East and West Germany prior to unification. Given the nature of family policies, we had expected to find an increase in the gender-typicality of occupations as individuals married and had children especially in the West. Yet, despite high levels of occupational sex segregation and clear evidence of the 'holding power' o…
Women's Work Histories
This book chapter focuses on changes in the patterns of employment in the US the compatibility of jobs with family responsibilities and the meaning of employment to women. Gainfully employed women represented 20% of the work force aged over 14 years in 1900 and in 1992 75% of women aged 20-44 years worked. The character of employment changed before and after World War II. In 1900 working women were mostly White single young and native-born and ma…
Women's employment exit and reentry: Differences among whites, blacks, and Hispanics
How Do Children Matter? A Comparison of Gender Earnings Inequality for Young Adults in the Former East Germany and the Former West Germany
The former Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) and the former German Democratic Republic (East Germany) differed sharply in their family policies. We follow 1950s and early 1960s birth cohorts from their first jobs to 1989 to see in what ways having children affected earnings for women and men. For the FRG, we find that being a parent had stronger earnings effects (positive for men and negative for women) than in the GDR, with much of this…
Gender Differences in Supervisory Authority: Variation among Advanced Industrialized Democracies
Substantive Interpretations of Differential Equation Models
American Sociological Association Elections, 1975 to 1996: "Exploring Explanations for "Feminization
Since 1972, the proportion of women in American Sociological Association governance positions has increased. Woman candidates for ASA offices and the ASA Council have been overrepresented and generally have had higher odds of winning than male candidates. The authors examine three possible factors behind these trends : the general impact of the women's movement, the influence of Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS), and elite dilution. Liberal…
Parents and the Process of Gaining Access to Student Financial Aid
Additional informationNotes on contributorsLorayn OlsonLorayn Olson received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, 1982. Rachel A. Rosenfeld is associate professor, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Rachel A. RosenfeldLorayn Olson received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, 1982. Rachel A. Rosenfeld is associate professor, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Sex Structure of Occupations and Job Mobility
Journal Article Sex Structure of Occupations and Job Mobility Get access Wendy C. Wolf, Wendy C. Wolf University of Wisconsin-Madison Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Rachel Rosenfeld Rachel Rosenfeld McGill University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 56, Issue 3, March 1978, Pages 823–844, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/56.3.823 Published: 01 March …
Women's employment patterns and occupational achievements
Differential Recovery Migration across the Rural–Urban Gradient: Minimal and Short‐Term Population Gains for Rural Disaster‐Affected Gulf Coast Counties
Places affected or threatened by extreme environmental disturbances confront a number of significant issues, including whether their populations will stay the same or change through migration. Research on Hurricanes Katrina and Rita shows some displaced residents returned to their disaster‐affected communities once the built environment was restored, new migrants settled in affected places as part of the rebuilding effort, and the regional migrat…
Patterns and Effects of Geographic Mobility for Academic Women and Men
Additional informationNotes on contributorsRachel A. RosenfeldRachel A. Rosenfeld is associate professor of sociology and Jo Ann Jones is a Population Predoctoral Fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Jo Ann JonesRachel A. Rosenfeld is associate professor of sociology and Jo Ann Jones is a Population Predoctoral Fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Sex differences in patterns of career mobility
Using the 1970 Census data, this paper examines differences by sex in patterns of intragenerational occupational mobility over a five year period (1965–1970) for two cohorts of white, U.S. men and women. The observed mobility patterns are separated into that part due to structural factors (i.e., the different distributions over occupational origins and destinations by sex) and that due to sex-related individual and group characteristics. Most of …
Occupational sex segregation in state socialist and market economies: Levels, patterns, and change in East and West Germany, 1980s and 1998
Women's Intergenerational Occupational Mobility
Several recent papers have studied women's intergenerational occupational mobility as movement from father's to daughter's occupation. This paper suggests that mother's occupation also is an important dimension of this mobility process. Analysis of data from a national sample of women 30 to 44 in 1967 shows that, when controlling for age and race, a necessary and sufficient model of women's intergenerational occupational mobility includes mother'…
Sex Structure of Occupations and Job Mobility
Journal Article Sex Structure of Occupations and Job Mobility Get access Wendy C. Wolf, Wendy C. Wolf University of Wisconsin-Madison Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Rachel Rosenfeld Rachel Rosenfeld McGill University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 56, Issue 3, March 1978, Pages 823–844, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/56.3.823 Published: 01 March …
Women's employment patterns and occupational achievements
Women's Occupational Careers: Individual and Structural Explanations
Men tend to move up m status over their work lives; women tend to remain at the same level. Two types of explanation can be used to explain this difference: (1) those focusing on individual characteristics which tend to vary by sex, especially employment patterns, and (2) those focusing on the differences in opportunity structure by sex. Research is reviewed which attempts to examine more directly the effect of individual versus structural factor…
Sex differences in patterns of career mobility
Using the 1970 Census data, this paper examines differences by sex in patterns of intragenerational occupational mobility over a five year period (1965–1970) for two cohorts of white, U.S. men and women. The observed mobility patterns are separated into that part due to structural factors (i.e., the different distributions over occupational origins and destinations by sex) and that due to sex-related individual and group characteristics. Most of …
Race and Sex Differences in Career Dynamics
In this paper, career differences by race and sex are analyzed. Careers are defined as trajectories of socioeconomic status and wages and are described by a linear differential equation model. It is assumed that the different groups defined by race and sex tend to be in different labor markets and economic sectors and to face different opportunity structures even within labor market divisions. This assumption guides predictions for and interpreta…
Interpreting Linear Differential Equation Models
Substantive Interpretations of Differential Equation Models
Academic men and women's career mobility
Fair Science: Women in the Scientific Community
Changing Places: Men and Women in Transitional Occupations.Carol Tropp Schreiber
Sex Segregation and Sectors: An Analysis of Gender Differences in Returns from Employer Changes
Sweet, James 1973 Women in the Labor Force. New York: Seminar Press. Vanek, Joann 1974 spent in housework. Scientific American 231:116-20. 1980 work, wage work, and sexual equality. Pp. 275-91 in Sarah F. Berk (ed.), Women and Household Labor. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage. Walker, K. and M. Woods 1976 Time Use: A Measure of Household Production of Family Goods and Services. Washington, D.C.: American Home Economics Association
Parents and the Process of Gaining Access to Student Financial Aid
Additional informationNotes on contributorsLorayn OlsonLorayn Olson received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, 1982. Rachel A. Rosenfeld is associate professor, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Rachel A. RosenfeldLorayn Olson received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, 1982. Rachel A. Rosenfeld is associate professor, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Inequality and Careers: A Dynamic Model of Socioeconomic Achievement
Socioeconomic careers involve a process of attainment. One model that explicitly recognizes this is a simple linear differential equation model. This article shows how such a model can be used to describe careers in terms of entry levels and their determinants, potential levels and their determinants, and the rate of achievement. Such models, while conceptually simple, have some statistical complications over the usual models used when it comes t…
U.S. Farm Women: Their Part in Farm Work and Decision Making
This article uses data from a 1980 national survey of farm women to describe the range of tasks and decisions in which they take part on their operations, some of the determinants of their participation, and the women's own feelings about the places they hold on their farms. These women were found to be involved in a wide range of farm tasks and decisions. The characteristics of the farm and farm labor force affected the extent of their involveme…
The Basis of the Bargain: Gender, Schooling, and Jobs
Institutional Mobility Among Academics: The Case of Psychologists
This paper uses career history data from a sample of academic psychologists to examine the extent, patterns, and consequences of interinstitutional job mobility by sex. Though professors have been characterized as mobile, we find relatively low levels of mobility. This mobility does not lead to demotion but often results in moves that are horizontal or out of academia. Changing schools early increases the chances of being on tenure track but late…
Charting Academic Careers: Does Data Source Make a Difference
Research on scientists' careers has relied heavily on secondary data sources. This Note compares data from curricula vitae and published sources on the same variables for the same group of academic psychologists. Agreement is close, so continued use of published information alone seems justified: but there is a need for further studies to evaluate the validity of the various data sources
Patterns and Effects of Geographic Mobility for Academic Women and Men
Additional informationNotes on contributorsRachel A. RosenfeldRachel A. Rosenfeld is associate professor of sociology and Jo Ann Jones is a Population Predoctoral Fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Jo Ann JonesRachel A. Rosenfeld is associate professor of sociology and Jo Ann Jones is a Population Predoctoral Fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Citizenship, Gender, and Work: Social Organization of Industrial Agriculture. Robert J. Thomas
Disorder in the Life Course: How Common and Does It Matter
In this paper we explore the patterning of early adulthood by examining the ordering of activities that make up nonfamily careers and how that ordering affects the timing of family transitions in particular the transition to parenthood. Data are from the U.S. National Longitudinal Survey of the High School Class of 1972 and its follow-ups. (EXCERPT
Sex Role Changes: Technology, Politics, and Policy . Marcia Lynn Whicker , Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld Female Revolt: Women's Movements in World and Historical Perspective . Janet Saltzman Chafetz , Anth…
Women's Occupations and Local Labor Markets: 1950 To 1980
Working Parents: Transformations in Gender Roles and Public Policies in Sweden
Work in the Family and in the Labor Market: A Cross-National, Reciprocal Analysis
The authors examine the reciprocal relations between mens and womens family involvement and labor market work in the US Canada NOrway and Sweden. The analysis seeks to overcome 2 major limitations of past research on family division of labor and labor market employment: studies of 1 type of work generally ignore the other and are usually restricted to 1 country. Hours of labor market employment relate negatively to US womens percentage of househo…
Sociology (41 works) · Economics (27 works) · Demographic economics (22 works) · Psychology (19 works) · Political science (18 works) · Demography (14 works) · Gender Studies (14 works) · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (14 works) · Labour economics (14 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (12 works)