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A01=Pamela Abbott
Author_Geoff Payne
Author_Pamela Abbott
career progression research
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Category=JN
class structure analysis
Cross-class Marriages
Downward Mobility
Downward Occupational Mobility
downwardly
educational attainment impact
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Father's Occupational Class
Father’s Occupational Class
female
Female Mobility
Female Social Mobility
gender stratification
gendered pathways in occupational mobility
household labour division
Intergenerational Mobility
Intragenerational Mobility
Junior Non-manual Workers
labour
male
Male Mobility
Male Mobility Models
Marital Mobility
market
marriage and socioeconomic status
Married Women
mobile
Mobility Rates
Mobility Tables
models
Mother's Occupation
Mother’s Occupation
non-manual
Occupational Class
Occupational Mobility
routine
Routine Non-manual Work
Scottish Mobility Study
Upward Occupational Mobility
Vice Versa
WES
Women's Social Mobility
Women’s Social Mobility
work
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781850008460
- Weight: 294g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 23 Nov 1990
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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First Published in 1990. What are a woman's chances of 'getting on in life'? How many shopkeepers' daughters make it to senior politcal pots- more or less, than shopkeeper's sons? What do we mean when we talk of a 'successful woman'? Up until now, we have know very little about female social mobility as studies have mostly been concerned with men. For the first time, this collection presents a compressive account for women's social mobility, built up by exploring how family background, work career and experience of marriage connect into a mobility profile. Starting from conventional questions, such as, what are the rates of inter-generational mobility, how do qualifications shape entry to work, and how does first job relate to later career achievement, the chapters begin to modify the perspective inherited from male mobility models. Is marriage in itself a form of mobility, and if so in which direction? What is the effect of child-rearing on careers? And how do household arrangements modify both occupational participation and the class position of married woman? Our models of the British class structure become increasingly open to question when tested against female mobility experiences. Based in the new tradition of mobility studies, which is now concerned as much with employment as with class in a narrow sense, this study offers a fresh perspective on the idea of social mobility itself. Its conclusions and proposals for new ways of seeing mobility, for example as a person-based profile, are equally relevant to students of social stratification, social structure and socio-economic change, as well as those who seek to understand the place of women in society today.
