SOC244H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 18: Longitudinal Study, Human Capital, Childlessness
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Chapter 18: education, work and family decision- making: finding the right time to have a baby. experiences women have in paid workforce shape their decisions as adults about whether to devote their time and energy more to family or to their careers/jobs. ranson questions the relationship between whether and when women have children and their field of academic concentration and job choices. paid word became more essential than before for women. Women"s jobs and careers now monopolize their time and energy. Ranson"s findings suggest that paid work may be a major factor shaping women"s life cycles, including if and when they become mothers. Education, work, and family decision-making: finding the right time" to have a baby. women"s exclusive biological capacity to bear children has come to be generalized to an exclusive capacity to care for them.
