Harriet B Presser
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 128165 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Harriet B Presser |
| NOMBRES | Harriet B |
| APELLIDO | Presser |
| FIRMA | PRESSER H B |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Maryland, College Park |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 750 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1969 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2008 |
| ÍNDICE H | 13 |
Women's gender-type occupational mobility in Puerto Rico, 1950 — 80
This paper investigates the patterns and determinants of women's mobility into and out of male-dominated occupations in Puerto Rico during a period of rapid development between the 1950s and the early 1980s. The paper uses data from the Puerto Rico Fertility and Family Planning Assessment of 1982, which includes detailed retrospective calendar histories of women's employment and other life-course changes. An event history approach allows an exami…
Demographic change and response
Working in a 24/7 Economy
Race-Ethnic and Gender Differences in Nonstandard Work Shifts
This article, based on the May 1997 Current Population Survey, presents a detailed analysis of the extent to which employed American men and women of various race-ethnic groups work non-standard work hours-namely, evenings, nights, and rotating or highly variable work shifts- and the reasons they report for doing so. Differences in occupational structure among race-ethnic groups largely explain their differences in the prevalence of nonstandard w…
Women’s Empowerment and Demographic Processes
There is general consensus among the international population community that the commitment achieved at the International Conference on Population and Development (Cairo, 1994) to womens empowerment, along with the related goals of improving womens reproductive health and securing their reproductive rights, represented a paradigm shift in the discourse about population and development, even though there are differences in view whether this is a p…
Women's empowerment and demographic processes
Demografía, feminismo y el nexo entre ciencia y política
Demographic studies have only recently begun to include a perspective that links gender systems to demographic behavior in an international context, and incorporates development matters into their reflections. Moreover, this type of research is of limited scope and highly fragmented. More scientific knowledge is required on the relationship between gender-based inequality-or other types of inequality-and demographic processes. This shortcoming st…
Nonstandard Work Schedules and Marital Instability
Based on subsample of 3,476 married couples drawn from two waves of the National Survey of Families and Household, this study examines the extent to which working evening, night, or rotating schedules and weekends affects the likelihood of marriages ending in separation or divorce within approximately 5 years. Logistic regression analysis revealed that this relationship depends on the presence of children and is specific to the type of nonstandar…
Toward a 24-Hour Economy
Two-fifths of all employed Americans work mostly during the evenings or nights, on rotating shifts, or on weekends. This article discusses why the widespread prevalence of nonstandard schedules has come about, predicts further growth in the near future, and argues that the movement toward a 24-hour economy is significantly altering the nature and stability of family life. The need for policymakers and scholars to take a more realistic view of the…
"Decapitating the U.S. Census Bureau's "Head of Household
In 1970, as in previous decades, the U.S. Bureau of the Census's household enumeration began with a lead question as to who was the ¿head of household'. With the resurgence of feminism, this concept was challenged as an ambiguous concept which implied an authority structure imputed by the Bureau but not measured, and offensive to many people. This paper tells the story of successful feminist mobilization in the 1970s that led to the removal of th…
Population, Family and Welfare
Demography, Feminism, and the Science-Policy Nexus
The introduction to the paper notes that although demographers are broadening their knowledge base they are losing ground in the international policy arena because the gender perspective that has become central in policy-making remains marginal in demographic research. Discussion of this situation begins with a look at how the boundaries of demography have been defined and how such ideologically-charged issues as eugenics and economic development…
Population Policy and Women's Rights
Gender Differences in the Determinants of Work-Related Overnight Travel among Employed Americans
This research documents the prevalence and extent of work-related overnight travel among employed men and women in the United States, revealing substantial differences by gender. Multivariate analyses show gender differences in the determinants of travel behavior with regard to job characteristics, gender ideology, and background characteristics. Interestingly, family characteristics are not important determinants for either women or men. Gender …
Job, Family, and Gender
This study provides the most recent national estimates of the prevalence of employment during nonstandard hours (evenings, nights, or rotating hours) and on weekends. It also examines in a multivariate context the relevance of job and family characteristics as determinants of such employment, separately for men and for women. The findings support the contention that the demand for employment during nonstandard hours and weekends is pervasive thro…
Employment Schedules Among Dual-Earner Spouses and the Division of Household Labor by Gender
I extend the research on how employment schedules affect family life and which factors determine a husband's share in household labor I present a new specification of the concept of available time among dual-earner couples-the amount of overlap (in hours) in spouses' employment schedules and whether a spouse works day, evening, night, or rotating shifts. I show that variations in employment schedules are significant determinants of a husband's sh…
Working Time in Transition
1. From Standardization to Flexibility Changes in the Political Economy of Working Time - Karl Hinrichs, William Roche, and Carmen Sirianni 2. Working Time Development in West Germany: Departure to a New Stage - Karl Hinrichs 3. Working Time Policies in France - Jean-Pierre Jallade 4. The Chimera of Changing Employee Time Preferences: Working Hours In British Industrial Relations since the Second World War - William Roche 5. Where Have All the Ho…
Economic Development and Occupational Sex Segregation in Puerto Rico
In this article we address the issue of occupational sex segregation in Puerto Rico a country that has recently undergone rapid industrialization. We demonstrate that it is possible for a country to experience a steady decline in occupational sex segregation at a time when womens labor force participation rates are not steadily rising and attribute this to the nature of the development process which differentially affected men and women. Moreover…
Women, Work, and Fertility, 1900-1986
Can we make time for children? the economy, work schedules, and child care
Not only are Americans having fewer children than ever before, they are spending less time with the children they have. This is due in large part to the growth in the labor force participation of women, which is most evident among mothers of young children, and to the decline in the proportion of families with fathers present.' Although we often acknowledge that because of these trends, more and more parents-particularly mothers-mu-st juggle thei…
Some Economic Complexities of Child Care Provided by Grandmothers
Shift Work and Child Care among Young Dual-Earner American Parents
Place of Child Care and Medicated Respiratory Illness among Young American Children
Work shifts of full-time dual-earner couples
Work shifts of full-time dual-earner couples are analyzed with data from the May 1980 U.S. Current Population Survey. Over 20 percent of husbands and about 12 percent of wives work other than a regular day shift. Variations in shift work status by sex of spouse are examined according to job, race, and life-cycle characteristics. A multivariate analysis indicates that a different composite offactors affects the shift work status of husbands and wi…
Population Control Politics
Employment Schedules Among Dual-Earner Spouses and the Division of Household Labor by Gender
I extend the research on how employment schedules affect family life and which factors determine a husband's share in household labor I present a new specification of the concept of available time among dual-earner couples-the amount of overlap (in hours) in spouses' employment schedules and whether a spouse works day, evening, night, or rotating shifts. I show that variations in employment schedules are significant determinants of a husband's sh…
Nonstandard Work Schedules and Marital Instability
Based on subsample of 3,476 married couples drawn from two waves of the National Survey of Families and Household, this study examines the extent to which working evening, night, or rotating schedules and weekends affects the likelihood of marriages ending in separation or divorce within approximately 5 years. Logistic regression analysis revealed that this relationship depends on the presence of children and is specific to the type of nonstandar…
Can we make time for children? the economy, work schedules, and child care
Not only are Americans having fewer children than ever before, they are spending less time with the children they have. This is due in large part to the growth in the labor force participation of women, which is most evident among mothers of young children, and to the decline in the proportion of families with fathers present.' Although we often acknowledge that because of these trends, more and more parents-particularly mothers-mu-st juggle thei…
Shift Work and Child Care among Young Dual-Earner American Parents
Child Care as a Constraint on Employment
This study examines the extent to which the unavailability of satisfactory child care is a constrait on employment for mothers with children under five years of age. It also explores some of the social and demographic correlates of constrait and the role child care plays in the relationship between labor-force participation and fertility. The analysis is based on data from the June 1977 Current Population Survey for the United States. A substanti…
Job, Family, and Gender
This study provides the most recent national estimates of the prevalence of employment during nonstandard hours (evenings, nights, or rotating hours) and on weekends. It also examines in a multivariate context the relevance of job and family characteristics as determinants of such employment, separately for men and for women. The findings support the contention that the demand for employment during nonstandard hours and weekends is pervasive thro…
Some Economic Complexities of Child Care Provided by Grandmothers
Race-Ethnic and Gender Differences in Nonstandard Work Shifts
This article, based on the May 1997 Current Population Survey, presents a detailed analysis of the extent to which employed American men and women of various race-ethnic groups work non-standard work hours-namely, evenings, nights, and rotating or highly variable work shifts- and the reasons they report for doing so. Differences in occupational structure among race-ethnic groups largely explain their differences in the prevalence of nonstandard w…
Age Differences Between Spouses
Demography, Feminism, and the Science-Policy Nexus
The introduction to the paper notes that although demographers are broadening their knowledge base they are losing ground in the international policy arena because the gender perspective that has become central in policy-making remains marginal in demographic research. Discussion of this situation begins with a look at how the boundaries of demography have been defined and how such ideologically-charged issues as eugenics and economic development…
Shift Work among American Women and Child Care
Utilizing data from the 1982 U.S. Current Population Survey, this study reveals a high prevalence of shift work among mothers aged 18 to 44 with a preschool-aged child: about one out of six such mothers who are employedfull-time, and about one out offive of those employed part-time, work other than at regular daytime hours. Marital status is found to be a determinant of shift-work status for full-timers, its prevalence being almost twice as high …
Age at menarche, socio‐sexual behavior, and fertility
This paper examines the relationship between age at menarche and fertility from two perspectives. Age at menarche is regarded as a crude indicator of the timing of fecundity that may affect the timing of conception among those sexually active; and age at menarche is regarded as a crude indicator of the timing of sexual maturation that may influence the timing of socio‐sexual behavior, namely dating and sexual intercourse. The data are drawn from …
Work shifts of full-time dual-earner couples
Work shifts of full-time dual-earner couples are analyzed with data from the May 1980 U.S. Current Population Survey. Over 20 percent of husbands and about 12 percent of wives work other than a regular day shift. Variations in shift work status by sex of spouse are examined according to job, race, and life-cycle characteristics. A multivariate analysis indicates that a different composite offactors affects the shift work status of husbands and wi…
Contraceptive sterilization in the U. S
There was an impressive increase between 1965 and 1970 in the prevalence of contraceptive sterilization, an increase that accelerated in the later years of the period and was shared in by virtually all subgroups considered. Among couples in 1970 for whom sterilization had been an option (recognizing that it is a terminal method), about one of every five had chosen this method of contraception. About half of all sterilizations were vasectomies, th…
Job characteristics of spouses and their work shifts
This study builds on an earlier finding from the May 1980 Current Population Survey that one-third of full-time dual-earner couples with children in the United States include at least one spouse who works other than a regular day shift. Using the same data source, the relevance of husbands’ and wives’ job characteristics (occupation and industry) on their shift work status are considered, and the nature of the association between husbands’ and wi…
"Decapitating the U.S. Census Bureau's "Head of Household
In 1970, as in previous decades, the U.S. Bureau of the Census's household enumeration began with a lead question as to who was the ¿head of household'. With the resurgence of feminism, this concept was challenged as an ambiguous concept which implied an authority structure imputed by the Bureau but not measured, and offensive to many people. This paper tells the story of successful feminist mobilization in the 1970s that led to the removal of th…
Gender Differences in the Determinants of Work-Related Overnight Travel among Employed Americans
This research documents the prevalence and extent of work-related overnight travel among employed men and women in the United States, revealing substantial differences by gender. Multivariate analyses show gender differences in the determinants of travel behavior with regard to job characteristics, gender ideology, and background characteristics. Interestingly, family characteristics are not important determinants for either women or men. Gender …
Public Assistance and Early Family Formation
The relationship between public assistance and fertility is examined, focusing on the time of early family formation. The study is based on a representative sample of New York City women who recently had their first child. These women were interviewed twice since their first birth. We found that women in households receiving public assistance want fewer children than those in non-recipient households. Moreover, there is no significant difference …
Sally's Corner
This paper examines the coping strategies of unmarried mothers (mostly black) for the 45 month period since the birth of their first child. The study is based on a longitudinal survey of first‐parity mothers in New York City. Their expansion of role responsibilities (employment, school, marriage, and subsequent childbearing) are analyzed, as well as the support systems they utilize (help from the child's father, the woman's parents, friends, and …
Economic Development and Occupational Sex Segregation in Puerto Rico
In this article we address the issue of occupational sex segregation in Puerto Rico a country that has recently undergone rapid industrialization. We demonstrate that it is possible for a country to experience a steady decline in occupational sex segregation at a time when womens labor force participation rates are not steadily rising and attribute this to the nature of the development process which differentially affected men and women. Moreover…
Demographic change and response
The role of sterilization in controlling Puerto Rican fertility
This paper provides evidence that the prevalence of female sterilization in Puerto Rica has increased substantially in recent years. It is estimated that about one-third of all Puerto Rican mothers aged 20 to 49 in 1965 were sterilized. This estimate is based on data from an island-wide survey in 1965 (Master Sample Survey of Health and Welfare). Additional data from this and other sources are analysed, leading to the conclusion that sterilizatio…
Place of Child Care and Medicated Respiratory Illness among Young American Children
Women's gender-type occupational mobility in Puerto Rico, 1950 — 80
This paper investigates the patterns and determinants of women's mobility into and out of male-dominated occupations in Puerto Rico during a period of rapid development between the 1950s and the early 1980s. The paper uses data from the Puerto Rico Fertility and Family Planning Assessment of 1982, which includes detailed retrospective calendar histories of women's employment and other life-course changes. An event history approach allows an exami…
Working in a 24/7 Economy
Puerto Rico
The role of sterilization in controlling Puerto Rican fertility
This paper provides evidence that the prevalence of female sterilization in Puerto Rica has increased substantially in recent years. It is estimated that about one-third of all Puerto Rican mothers aged 20 to 49 in 1965 were sterilized. This estimate is based on data from an island-wide survey in 1965 (Master Sample Survey of Health and Welfare). Additional data from this and other sources are analysed, leading to the conclusion that sterilizatio…
Contraceptive sterilization in the U. S
There was an impressive increase between 1965 and 1970 in the prevalence of contraceptive sterilization, an increase that accelerated in the later years of the period and was shared in by virtually all subgroups considered. Among couples in 1970 for whom sterilization had been an option (recognizing that it is a terminal method), about one of every five had chosen this method of contraception. About half of all sterilizations were vasectomies, th…
Public Assistance and Early Family Formation
The relationship between public assistance and fertility is examined, focusing on the time of early family formation. The study is based on a representative sample of New York City women who recently had their first child. These women were interviewed twice since their first birth. We found that women in households receiving public assistance want fewer children than those in non-recipient households. Moreover, there is no significant difference …
Age Differences Between Spouses
Sterilization and Fertility Decline in Puerto Rico
Age at menarche, socio‐sexual behavior, and fertility
This paper examines the relationship between age at menarche and fertility from two perspectives. Age at menarche is regarded as a crude indicator of the timing of fecundity that may affect the timing of conception among those sexually active; and age at menarche is regarded as a crude indicator of the timing of sexual maturation that may influence the timing of socio‐sexual behavior, namely dating and sexual intercourse. The data are drawn from …
Sally's Corner
This paper examines the coping strategies of unmarried mothers (mostly black) for the 45 month period since the birth of their first child. The study is based on a longitudinal survey of first‐parity mothers in New York City. Their expansion of role responsibilities (employment, school, marriage, and subsequent childbearing) are analyzed, as well as the support systems they utilize (help from the child's father, the woman's parents, friends, and …
Child Care as a Constraint on Employment
This study examines the extent to which the unavailability of satisfactory child care is a constrait on employment for mothers with children under five years of age. It also explores some of the social and demographic correlates of constrait and the role child care plays in the relationship between labor-force participation and fertility. The analysis is based on data from the June 1977 Current Population Survey for the United States. A substanti…
Predicting Fertility
Job characteristics of spouses and their work shifts
This study builds on an earlier finding from the May 1980 Current Population Survey that one-third of full-time dual-earner couples with children in the United States include at least one spouse who works other than a regular day shift. Using the same data source, the relevance of husbands’ and wives’ job characteristics (occupation and industry) on their shift work status are considered, and the nature of the association between husbands’ and wi…
Colonialim, Catholicism, and Contraception
Colonialism, Catholicism, and Contraception
A history of birth control in Puerto Rico is presented. Consideration is given to the relationship between family planning as an individual concept and Puerto Ricos needs for a national population policy. The interrelationships among the public health aspects of family planning eugenic factors economic reasons for slowing population growth ecological aspects individual factors and family planning as a factor in promoting equality between the sexe…
Population Control Politics
Shift Work among American Women and Child Care
Utilizing data from the 1982 U.S. Current Population Survey, this study reveals a high prevalence of shift work among mothers aged 18 to 44 with a preschool-aged child: about one out of six such mothers who are employedfull-time, and about one out offive of those employed part-time, work other than at regular daytime hours. Marital status is found to be a determinant of shift-work status for full-timers, its prevalence being almost twice as high …
Work shifts of full-time dual-earner couples
Work shifts of full-time dual-earner couples are analyzed with data from the May 1980 U.S. Current Population Survey. Over 20 percent of husbands and about 12 percent of wives work other than a regular day shift. Variations in shift work status by sex of spouse are examined according to job, race, and life-cycle characteristics. A multivariate analysis indicates that a different composite offactors affects the shift work status of husbands and wi…
Shift Work and Child Care among Young Dual-Earner American Parents
Place of Child Care and Medicated Respiratory Illness among Young American Children
Women, Work, and Fertility, 1900-1986
Can we make time for children? the economy, work schedules, and child care
Not only are Americans having fewer children than ever before, they are spending less time with the children they have. This is due in large part to the growth in the labor force participation of women, which is most evident among mothers of young children, and to the decline in the proportion of families with fathers present.' Although we often acknowledge that because of these trends, more and more parents-particularly mothers-mu-st juggle thei…
Some Economic Complexities of Child Care Provided by Grandmothers
Economic Development and Occupational Sex Segregation in Puerto Rico
In this article we address the issue of occupational sex segregation in Puerto Rico a country that has recently undergone rapid industrialization. We demonstrate that it is possible for a country to experience a steady decline in occupational sex segregation at a time when womens labor force participation rates are not steadily rising and attribute this to the nature of the development process which differentially affected men and women. Moreover…
Working Time in Transition
1. From Standardization to Flexibility Changes in the Political Economy of Working Time - Karl Hinrichs, William Roche, and Carmen Sirianni 2. Working Time Development in West Germany: Departure to a New Stage - Karl Hinrichs 3. Working Time Policies in France - Jean-Pierre Jallade 4. The Chimera of Changing Employee Time Preferences: Working Hours In British Industrial Relations since the Second World War - William Roche 5. Where Have All the Ho…
Employment Schedules Among Dual-Earner Spouses and the Division of Household Labor by Gender
I extend the research on how employment schedules affect family life and which factors determine a husband's share in household labor I present a new specification of the concept of available time among dual-earner couples-the amount of overlap (in hours) in spouses' employment schedules and whether a spouse works day, evening, night, or rotating shifts. I show that variations in employment schedules are significant determinants of a husband's sh…
Job, Family, and Gender
This study provides the most recent national estimates of the prevalence of employment during nonstandard hours (evenings, nights, or rotating hours) and on weekends. It also examines in a multivariate context the relevance of job and family characteristics as determinants of such employment, separately for men and for women. The findings support the contention that the demand for employment during nonstandard hours and weekends is pervasive thro…
Sociology (31 obras) · Demography (28 obras) · Population (26 obras) · Economics (25 obras) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (20 obras) · Political science (19 obras) · Demography (18 obras) · Psychology (17 obras) · Medicine (15 obras) · Demographic economics (14 obras)