Work Orientation and Wives ’ Employment Careers : An Evaluation of Hakim ’ s Preference Theory
Work Orientation and Wives ’ Employment Careers : An Evaluation of Hakim ’ s Preference Theory
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工作取向与妻子的就业生涯：哈基姆偏好理论评价
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2005
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M. Kan
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本文使用英国家庭小组调查（1991-1999）九年的工作生活历史数据来研究已婚/同居女性的工作轨迹。特别是，它测试了哈基姆（Hakim，2000）偏好理论的一些主要论点。已经找到了支持该理论的证据和反对的证据。首先，与哈基姆的观点一致，随着时间的推移，走家庭职业道路的女性比致力于职业生涯的女性始终持有更多以家庭为中心的态度。此外，研究发现，受抚养子女的存在对以工作为中心的女性从事全职工作的机会几乎没有或没有负面影响。但调查结果并不能排除女性就业生涯仍受到限制的可能性。最以工作为中心的女性（正如她们在九年期间的性别角色态度所揭示的那样），尽管大多致力于全职工作，但她们的职业追求仍然表现出一定程度的不连续性。最后，与偏好理论的推论相反，性别角色态度与女性参与劳动力市场工作之间的关系是相互的而不是单向的。也就是说，女性的工作取向是内生于她们的劳动力市场经历的。
This article uses a nine-year period of work-life history data from the British Household Panel Survey (1991 – 1999) to examine married/cohabiting women’s work trajectories. In particular, it tests some major contentions of Hakim’s (2000) preference theory. Both supportive and opposing evidence for the theory has been found. First, concurring with Hakim’s arguments, women who have followed a home-career path hold consistently more home-centred attitudes over time than women who have been committed to their employment careers. Moreover, it is found that presence of dependent children has little or no negative effect on a work-centred woman’s chance of being engaged in full-time work. But the findings could not rule out the possibility that women’s employment careers are still constrained. The most work-centred women (as revealed in their gender role attitudes in the nine-year period), despite having been committed mostly to a full-time work, still have displayed a certain degree of discontinuity in their career pursuits. Finally, contrary to corollary of the preference theory, the relationship between gender role attitudes and women’s participation in labour market work is reciprocal rather than unidirectional. That is, women’s work orientation is endogenous to their labour market experiences.