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Career or Family: What Choices Do College Women Have?

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  • MARIANNE A. FERBER
  • CAROLE A. GREEN

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Much has been written about the problems of combining job and family. Among the best-known scholarly works is Goldin's (1997) study in which she found that only 1217 percent of college-educated women managed to attain both a career and a family. We re-examine these conclusions, first duplicating Goldin's definitions of career but using a somewhat older group, then using alternate definitions of career. We reach far more optimistic conclusions about what lies ahead for today's college women.

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  • Marianne A. Ferber & Carole A. Green, 2003. "Career or Family: What Choices Do College Women Have?," Journal of Labor Research, Transaction Publishers, vol. 24(1), pages 144-151, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:tra:jlabre:v:24:y:2003:i:1:p:144-151
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