TY - JOUR
T1 - How Education Shapes Women’s Work and Family Lives Across Race and Ethnicity
AU - Pessin, Léa
AU - Damaske, Sarah
AU - Frech, Adrianne
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2023/8/1
Y1 - 2023/8/1
N2 - Drawing on life course and intersectional approaches, this study examines how education shapes the intertwined domains of work and family across race and ethnic ity. By applying multichannel sequence analysis and cluster analysis to the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, we identify a typology of life course trajectories of work and family and test for the interactive associations of race and ethnicity with college education for different trajectory types. While our results show statistically significant and often sizable education effects across racial and ethnic groups for most of the work‒family clusters, they also suggest that the size and direction of the education effect vary widely across groups. Educational attainment plays an outsize role in shaping Black women’s work‒family lives, increasing their access to steady work and partnerships, while educational attainment primarily works to increase White women’s participation in part-time work. In contrast, Latina women’s work‒family trajectories are less responsive to their educational attainment. In combination, the racialized role of education and persistent racial and ethnic gaps across the education distribution yield unequal patterns in work‒family strategies among Black, Latina, and White women.
AB - Drawing on life course and intersectional approaches, this study examines how education shapes the intertwined domains of work and family across race and ethnic ity. By applying multichannel sequence analysis and cluster analysis to the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, we identify a typology of life course trajectories of work and family and test for the interactive associations of race and ethnicity with college education for different trajectory types. While our results show statistically significant and often sizable education effects across racial and ethnic groups for most of the work‒family clusters, they also suggest that the size and direction of the education effect vary widely across groups. Educational attainment plays an outsize role in shaping Black women’s work‒family lives, increasing their access to steady work and partnerships, while educational attainment primarily works to increase White women’s participation in part-time work. In contrast, Latina women’s work‒family trajectories are less responsive to their educational attainment. In combination, the racialized role of education and persistent racial and ethnic gaps across the education distribution yield unequal patterns in work‒family strategies among Black, Latina, and White women.
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U2 - 10.1215/00703370-10878053
DO - 10.1215/00703370-10878053
M3 - Article
C2 - 37470806
AN - SCOPUS:85167467381
SN - 0070-3370
VL - 60
SP - 1207
EP - 1233
JO - Demography
JF - Demography
IS - 4
ER -