Inhalt: Which constraints and privileges do members
of empowered or disempowered groups face
in combining work and family life courses?
To address this timely and highly relevant
question, we empirically analyze work and family
life courses at the intersection of gender
and race in the United States. We use longit
udinal data from the National Longitudinal
Study of Youth (NLSY) to study parallel wo
rk-family trajectories
of white and African
American men and women combining an inters
ectional comparison with a quantitative
life course perspective. Results from recent
innovations in sequence analysis including
Mantel coefficients and multichannel sequ
ence analysis show distinct work-family
patterns for the four groups. Overall the associ
ation between work and family life courses
for white men is weakest. They can combin
e any type of family trajectories with all
possible work careers. In contrast, for black
men high prestige careers are only accessible
if they are in stable relationships with ma
ximum one child. For black women we find the
strongest association between family lives an
d careers characterized by high occupational
prestige almost never occur for them. For wh
ite women the highest prestige work-family
life course pattern goes along with late parent
hood and / or childlessness. We contribute to
the literature by identifying complex popula
tion level regularities in intersectional
inequalities in longitudinal work and family
life courses. Uncovering complex population
level regularities that are not immediately
visible are an important precondition for
assessing the causes and consequences of soci
al inequality in work-family life courses.
Schlagwörter:Intersectionality; Intersektionalität; Privilegien; Ungleichheit; USA
CEWS Kategorie:Arbeitswelt und Arbeitsmarkt, Diversity, Gleichstellungspolitik
Dokumenttyp:Graue Literatur, Bericht