Carolyn Stickney & Dr. Luis Sanchez
Abstract
This study discusses women, ages 25-34, and the relationship between their educational attainment with other societal roles, such as parenthood, marital status, and labor force status, and how it has changed over time. This will be done through the gender roles scope. This research is significant due to the constantly changing social terrain and will also help to shed light on the common perception that there are less women that are getting married in the current day due to other factors, such as receiving an education and being in the labor force. Other research has considered the modern woman and her educational attainment while leaving women that lived in times that were not so kind to women that wanted to be educated largely ignored. This study uses data from the American Community Survey and the United States Census from the years 1970, 1980, 1990, 2000, 2010, and 2019. Analysis for this research is conducted through both bivariate and multivariate analysis in SPSS. The basic research question this study aims to examine is what is the relationship between a woman’s educational attainment and marital status, parenthood, and employment status and how does this relationship change over time? Preliminary results show an increase in women with college level education over time and also show a downward trend in marriage across all race-ethnicities. Additionally, there is an increase in women over time that have no children, regardless of their highest level of education.
Details
Session 1
9:30am – 11:00am
Grand Salon
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