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78 Soc. F. 1409 (1999-2000)
Married Women's Employment over the Life Course: Attitudes in Cross-National Perspective

handle is hein.journals/josf78 and id is 1423 raw text is: Married Women's Employment over the Life Course: Attitudes in Cross-National Perspective* JUDITH TEAms, University of California, Irvine ERic D. WIDMER, University of Geneva Abstract We analyze survey data from 23, largely industrialized countries on attitudes toward married women's employment at four stages of the family life course. Despite general consensus between countries, cluster and correspondence analyses show that the nations represent three distinct patterns of attitudes. There is only mixed support for the hypothesis that public opinion conforms to state welfare regime type. Instead, normative beliefs reflect both a general dimension of structural and cultural factors facilitating female labor force participation and a life course dimension specific to maternal employment. Men and women largely agree, but gender differences affect cluster membership for a few countries. Systematic analysis of a large number of countries helps to test the limits of comparative typologies and to identify anomalous cases for closer study. Women around the globe face similar problems reconciling paid work and domestic responsibilities (Boh, Sgritta & Sussman 1989; Frankel 1996; Moen 1992; Stockman, Bonney & Sheng 1995). Compared with other women, mothers of children, particularly young children, are less likely to be employed. When they do work for pay, they are less likely to work full-time. Ideologies assigning primary child-care responsibility to women prevail in most cultures (Barry & Paxson 1971). In advanced industrial societies, the organization of work (e.g., fixed employment schedules) and its rewards (e.g., gender pay gaps) pose obstacles and *This research was supported by a grant from the University of California Center for German and European Studies. Direct correspondence to Judith Treas, Department of Sociology, Social Science Plaza 3151A, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-5100. @ The University of North Carolina Press Social Forces, June 2000, 78(4):1409-1436

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