Do 'his' education and class matter? The changing effect of the husband on women's labour-market transitions in Italy and Britain
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5610046 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cristina Solera (0000-0002-8233-6338, University of Turin and Collegio Carlo Alberto, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 70 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 526-550 |
| Publication date | 2019-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1315 • E-ISSN: 1468-4446 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-4446.12373 |
| PMID | 29736977 |
| OpenAlex | W2801007966 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 39 |
A new stream of sociological and demographic theory emphasizes individualization as the key process in late modernity. As maintained by Hakim (), women also have increasingly become agents of their own biographies, less influenced by the social class and the family. In this study, I intend to contribute to this debate by analysing how, in Italy and Britain, women's movements between employment and housework are linked to their husband's education and class, and how this link has changed across cohorts. Using discrete-time event-history modelling on the BHPS and ILFI, my findings show that in both countries, if the woman's educational and labour-market profile is controlled for, the husband's occupation and education have lost importance. Yet, although based more on 'her' than 'his' profile, divisions along 'classic' lines are still evident and not context-free, and they assume different forms in the two countries with distinctive institutional and cultural settings. In 'liberal' Britain, women's labour-market participation responds more to motherhood and class than to education, while in 'familistic' Italy education seems more important, which suggests the existence of returns over and above strictly human capital/economic ones
Class (philosophy · Context (archaeology · Cultural capital · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Human capital · Labour economics · Modernity · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Working class · Gender Studies · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Work-Family Balance Challenges
Hard Choices
Careers of Couples in Contemporary Societies
Who Marries Whom?
Family Life and Family Policies in Europe
Work-Lifestyle Choices in the 21st Century
Rising Tide
Employment and the Family
Gender role attitudes in Italy
Comparing Care Regimes in Europe
Paradoxes of New Labour Social Policy
Trends in Women's Career Patterns and in Gender Occupational Mobility in Britain
Varieties of familialism
Employment after childbearing and women's subsequent labour force participation
Labour force participation and marital fertility of Italian women
Changes in Attitudes Toward Women's Roles
Developing Early Years Childcare in England, 1997–2002
Family Ties in Western Europe
Social stratification and attitudes
National Context, Individual Characteristics and Attitudes on Mothers' Employment
Developing a Sociology for the Twenty-First Century
Explaining Women's Employment Patterns
The Unfolding Story of the Second Demographic Transition
Married Women's Employment over the Life Course
Maternal employment and gender role attitudes
Preference or constraint? Part-time workers' transitions in Denmark, France and the United Kingdom
The Gender Revolution
Partner's Resources and Adjusting Working Hours in the Netherlands
Contextualizing the Education Effect on Women's Employment
Employment after Childbearing in Post-War Britain
Does the Husband Matter
The Welfare State and the Home
Constraints and choices in mothers' employment careers
Culture and Welfare State Policies
Reciprocal relationships between attitudes about gender and social contexts during young adulthood
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2023 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |