Marriage Opportunities and Women's Roles in the U.S.

这项研究的重点是一些主要的后果， “婚姻挤压”，在多大程度上， 适婚男女人数影响婚姻， 离婚率、生育率和女性劳动力参与率。 这项研究解决了理论上的重要问题， 人口统计学特征之间的关系 人口和其中的个人的机会。 确定妇女的婚姻机会如何导致变化 在婚姻中，婚内和非婚生育，劳动力 参与和离婚是我们理解 这些社会进程。 这项研究还将探讨 黑人和白人在婚姻和其他方面的差异 与婚姻机会有关。 该项目有三大 目标. 首先是如何确定婚姻挤压 妇女的年龄、种族、教育程度和 地理区域。 第二是考察 结婚率、生育率、劳动力 强迫参与和离婚。 第三个目标是 调查婚姻机会的种族差异 导致了婚姻、生育、 非婚生、劳动力参与和离婚。 1980年 人口普查数据和国家卫生中心的数据 将利用统计数字来解决这些问题。 这项研究的结果将有助于澄清主要的 研究女性生活的问题。 虽然社会和 经济理论家认为， 妇女的婚姻机会和她们所扮演的角色， 理论还没有得到充分的检验。 的赤字 适婚男性被假设为产生低比率的 婚姻和生育率以及非婚生、离婚率较高 女性劳动力参与率。 斯科特博士分析了这些 结果来测试婚姻挤压是一个 塑造美国女性生活的强大力量 这 对婚姻机会的分析可能特别重要， 更广泛地了解人口与发展之间的联系 人口变化和其他社会变化。

This research focuses on some principal consequences of the "marriage squeeze", the extent to which imbalances between the numbers of marriageable males and females affect marriage and divorce rates, fertility, and female labor force participation. The study addresses theoretically important questions as to the relationships between demographic characteristics of the population and opportunities of the individuals within it. Determining how women's marriage opportunities lead to variations in marriage, marital and nonmarital fertility, labor force participation and divorce is central to our understanding of these social processes. The study also will address the question of how black-white differences in marriage and other outcomes relate to marriage opportunities. The project has three major objectives. The first is to determine how the marriage squeeze for women varies by age, race, educational attainment and geographic area. The second is to examine the effect of marriage opportunities on rates of marriage, fertility, labor force participation and divorce. The third objective is to investigate how racial differences in marriage opportunities contribute to racial differences in marriage, fertility, illegitimacy, labor force participation and divorce. Both 1980 Census data and data from the National Center for Health Statistics will be drawn upon to address these question. The findings of this research will help clarify major questions in the study of women's lives. While social and economic theorists have argued that a causal link exists between women's marital opportunities and the roles they occupy, their theories have not been adequately tested. The deficit of marriageable men has been hypothesized to produce low rates of marriage and fertility and higher rates of illegitimacy, divorce and female labor force participation. Dr. Scott analyzes these outcomes to test the assertion that the marriage squeeze is a powerful force shaping the lives of American women. This analysis of marriage opportunities may be especially important in gaining a broader understanding of the links between demographic changes in the population and other societal changes.