Work-Family Conflict: The Effects of Religious Context on Married Women’s Participation in the Labor Force
Past work shows religion’s effect on women’s career decisions, particularly when these decisions involve work-family conflict. This study argues that the religious context of a geographic area also influences women’s solutions to work-family conflict through more or less pervasive normative expectat...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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MDPI
[2014]
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| In: |
Religions
Year: 2014, Volume: 5, Issue: 3, Pages: 580-593 |
| Further subjects: | B
spatial effects
B moral communities B Working women B Religion B Family B Religious Context B work-family conflict |
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| Summary: | Past work shows religion’s effect on women’s career decisions, particularly when these decisions involve work-family conflict. This study argues that the religious context of a geographic area also influences women’s solutions to work-family conflict through more or less pervasive normative expectations within the community regarding women’s roles and responsibilities to the family. We use the American Community Survey linked with community-level religious proportions to test the relationship between religious contexts and women’s participation in the labor force in the contiguous United States-2054 census geographic areas. Using spatial analysis, we find that community religious concentration is related to the proportion of women who choose not to work. Communities with a higher proportion of the population belonging to conservative religious traditions also have a greater proportion of married women choosing not to work outside the home. |
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| ISSN: | 2077-1444 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3390/rel5030580 |