Essays on gender, marriage and inequality
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation explores issues of gender and inequality within marriage. In it I show that what a woman earns relative to her husband better predicts whether or not she will leave the labor force than her or her husband's absolute earnings. Additionally, I show that women who are married to men who spend more time in paid work (over 45 hours per week) are more likely to exit relative to women who are married to men who work fewer hours per week. I also show that marriage is associated with a slight increase in body mass index for women and men of all races. African American women, however, are the only group to be more at risk for obesity in marriage (compared to being single). Finally, I also find that a woman's last name choice in marriage affects how men of low education view her -- but only if her behavior is gender non-traditional as well. If her behavior is gender non-traditional and her name is non-traditional (in other words, different than her husband's or hyphenated), a man with a high school degree or less sees her as a less committed wife and holds her to higher standards than a woman whose name is gender traditional (the same as her husband's).
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2010 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Shafer, Emily Fitzgibbons |
|---|---|
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Sociology. |
| Primary advisor | England, Paula |
| Thesis advisor | England, Paula |
| Thesis advisor | Correll, Shelley Joyce |
| Thesis advisor | Grusky, David B |
| Thesis advisor | Rosenfeld, Michael J, 1966- |
| Advisor | Correll, Shelley Joyce |
| Advisor | Grusky, David B |
| Advisor | Rosenfeld, Michael J, 1966- |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Emily Fitzgibbons Shafer. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Sociology. |
| Thesis | Ph.D. Stanford University 2010 |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2010 by Emily Fitzgibbons Shafer
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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