Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
International Sociology
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Web of Science (2)
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Grunow, D.
Right arrow Articles by Buchholz, S.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

Late 20th-Century Persistence and Decline of the Female Homemaker in Germany and the United States

Daniela Grunow

Heather Hofmeister

Sandra Buchholz

Otto-Friedrich University of Bamberg

The article compares changes in West German and American women's mid-career job exits and re-entries and introduces an innovative event-history model to compare mobility across three decades using 1940s and 1950s birth cohorts from the German Life History Study and the US National Longitudinal Survey of Young Women. Processes by which transitions through parenthood and marriage impact women's labour market participation vary by country and cohort, evidence that changing gender relations, norms and institutions provide unique options and restrictions for women's family and career trajectories. Homemaking is in decline in both countries, but event-history models show that this decline is due to different life course dynamics in each country: women's job attachment has increased throughout the family cycle in the US, while German women still exit the labour market, but at motherhood rather than marriage, and for shorter durations. Employment interruptions have become more penalizing for women in both countries.

Key Words: employment • housewife • international comparison • labour market • longitudinal • women

International Sociology, Vol. 21, No. 1, 101-131 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/0268580906059294
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Eur Sociol RevHome page
L. Ruppanner
Conflict and Housework: Does Country Context Matter?
Eur. Sociol. Rev., July 29, 2009; (2009) jcp038v1.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 The Family JournalHome page
W. S. Locke and M. M. Gibbons
On Her Own Again: The Use of Narrative Therapy in Career Counseling With Displaced New Traditionalists
The Family Journal, April 1, 2008; 16(2): 132 - 138.
[Abstract] [PDF]