Job Stability among Young Women

A Comparison of Traditional and Nontraditional Occupations

Linda Waite, Sue E. Berryman

ResearchPublished 1986

This Note, which originally appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, v. 92, no. 3, Nov. 1986, explores young women's retention in sex-atypical jobs in the military and in civilian firms. It develops hypotheses about the effects on one-year turnover of sex composition of the occupation in the national labor force. These hypotheses were drawn from several theoretical perspectives on career mobility and the effects of out-group membership on acceptance. Tests of these hypotheses, using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth Labor Market Behavior, provide no evidence that being in a nontraditional occupation increases the chances that a young woman will leave her current employer. The military sector shows a more complex relationship between occupational typicality and women's exit from the services.

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