Social origin and women’s occupational careers. The role of parenthood in shaping social inequality among Italian women
Articolo
Data di Pubblicazione:
2023
Citazione:
Social origin and women’s occupational careers. The role of parenthood in shaping social inequality among Italian women / S. Cantalini, G. Ballarino. - In: RESEARCH IN SOCIAL STRATIFICATION AND MOBILITY. - ISSN 0276-5624. - 87:(2023), pp. 100847.1-100847.14. [10.1016/j.rssm.2023.100847]
Abstract:
This paper studies in longitudinal perspective the direct effect of social origin (DESO) on the careers of women in
Italy, focusing on the role of motherhood in shaping the DESO and its pattern over the life course. Career out-
comes are seen in terms of employment interruptions and of occupational status. First, the paper analyzes when
the DESO appears, and how it evolves over the occupational career and the life course. Second, it investigates
whether and how motherhood shapes the magnitude and trend over the career of the DESO. Results, based on
growth curve models, show that the DESO in occupational status already appears at first job, and then slightly
changes over the life course, whereas the social origin gap in the probability of career breaks is small in the first
years after labour market entry and then increases. Parenthood does not help to explain the DESO because
women from low social origin are more likely to have children than women from high social origin. Rather, it
contributes to the increase of the DESO over the life course because of different career trajectories after moth-
erhood, with higher risks to leave employment among women from the lower classes and (slightly) higher
occupational premia among women from the service class.
Tipologia IRIS:
01 - Articolo su periodico
Keywords:
Careers; Direct effect of social origin; Growth curve models; Parenthood
Elenco autori:
S. Cantalini, G. Ballarino
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