Education, Work, and Family Events in Womens Lives

Zusatztext

This book investigates how educational expansion, the trend towards the service society and the German unification affect East and West German womens life courses and family lives. It focuses on educational enrolment, educational attainment level, labour force participation, career resources, social origin, the educational match among partners as well as historical periods and examines their consequences on womens entry into first motherhood as well as partnership formation and dissolution processes. Using longitudinal data from the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS),multivariate methods such as event history analysis were applied. The findings suggest that womens entry into motherhood during full-time education is highly dependent on womens age, social origin and the policy measures in a country.

Autorenportrait

Dr. Gwendolin Josephine Blossfeld is a postdoctoral fellow at Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Germany.

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