Marriage or Profession? Marriage and Profession? Marriage Patterns Among Highly Successful Women of Jewish Descent and Other Women in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century German-Speaking Central Europe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9644381 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lisa Fetheringill Zwicker (0000-0002-1975-5636, Western Michigan University, corresponding author), Jason Ulysses Rose, Jason Rose (Indiana University South Bend) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 703-740 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Central European History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-9389 • E-ISSN: 1569-1616 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0008938920000539 |
| OpenAlex | W3128791021 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
This study analyzes the marriage patterns of five hundred highly successful women in modern German-speaking Central Europe. Among the women at the very top of their professions, women of Jewish descent were more likely than non-Jewish women to marry while they pursued their careers. The results of our quantitative study—67.6 percent of women of Jewish descent married versus 51.6 percent of non-Jewish women—provide a unique body of data that complements and contributes to other research that identifies distinctive aspects of Central European Jewish life patterns: the high number of Jewish women university students, the importance of women of Jewish descent in a number of fields, and Jewish families as early adopters of a modern family form with a small number of children and intensive investment in each child
African descent · Descent (aeronautics · Ethnology · Geography · German · Judaism · Sociology · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |