Health effects of discontinuities in female employment and marital status

The discontinuities that characterize women's work histories are also a factor in women's marital histories. Family obligations and childbearing contribute to women's unique employment histories, which include intermittent labor force participation and mobility between employers. Whil...

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Published in:Social science & medicine (1982) 1993-04, Vol.36 (8), p.1099-1104
Main Authors: Hibbard, Judith H., Pope, Clyde R.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Analysis. Health state
Biological and medical sciences
Cohort Studies
Employment
employment characteristics
employment history
Epidemiology
Factors
Female
Females
General aspects
Health
Health Problems
Humans
Illness
Marital Status
Marriage
Medical sciences
Middle Aged
Morbidity
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Relationship
role changes
Social research
social roles
social roles employment characteristics morbidity role changes women's health employment history
Stress, Psychological
Unemployment
United States of America
USA
Women
Women's Health
Working Women
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Summary:The discontinuities that characterize women's work histories are also a factor in women's marital histories. Family obligations and childbearing contribute to women's unique employment histories, which include intermittent labor force participation and mobility between employers. While research has increasingly focussed on the effect of labor force participation on women's health, little attention has been given to the effect of the consistency or the stability of labor force participation on health. The purpose of this paper is to examine 15 years of employment histories and marital status changes among a cohort of women and to determine the cumulative effect of these histories on subsequent morbidity and self-reported health. The cohort of 556 women examined in this study were interviewed as part of a household interview survey completed in 1970–1971, and resurveyed via a mail-out questionnaire, in 1985–1986. Medical record data for the full 15 years of the study have been linked with the survey data. The findings suggest that work discontinuities and marital status discontinuities are unrelated to morbidity during the study period. However, two or more changes in marital status are related to poor self-reported health at follow-up.
ISSN:0277-9536
1873-5347
DOI:10.1016/0277-9536(93)90128-Q