Work-Family Conflict: The Effects of Religious Context on Married Women’s Participation in the Labor Force

Past work shows religion’s effect on women’s career decisions, particularly when these decisions involve work-family conflict. This study argues that the religious context of a geographic area also influences women’s solutions to work-family conflict through more or less pervasive normative expectat...

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Authors: Griebel, Jenna (Author) ; Franzen, Aaron B. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: MDPI [2014]
In: Religions
Year: 2014, Volume: 5, Issue: 3, Pages: 580-593
Further subjects:B spatial effects
B moral communities
B Working women
B Religion
B Family
B Religious Context
B work-family conflict
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Summary:Past work shows religion’s effect on women’s career decisions, particularly when these decisions involve work-family conflict. This study argues that the religious context of a geographic area also influences women’s solutions to work-family conflict through more or less pervasive normative expectations within the community regarding women’s roles and responsibilities to the family. We use the American Community Survey linked with community-level religious proportions to test the relationship between religious contexts and women’s participation in the labor force in the contiguous United States-2054 census geographic areas. Using spatial analysis, we find that community religious concentration is related to the proportion of women who choose not to work. Communities with a higher proportion of the population belonging to conservative religious traditions also have a greater proportion of married women choosing not to work outside the home.
ISSN:2077-1444
Contains:Enthalten in: Religions
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.3390/rel5030580