An Investigation of the Relationship Among Occupational Opportunities for Women, Marriage, and Fertility Page: 17
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The findings of an investigation of this nature are
relevant for policy makers. There is a growing body of
knowledge that suggests that in order for sociology to be a
viable discipline its findings must be useful. Sociologists
and more specifically demographers suggest that sociology
follow this example. Surely it could be said that if struc-
tural characteristics, i.e., occupational opportunities, are
negatively related to percentage married and fertility, then
policy makers could make use of this information. Barriers
should be removed so as to encourage equal participation of
females in the labor market. If the United States cannot
directly implement a population policy, then through indirect
methods, such as equal occupational opportunities for women,
a pronatalist policy might be deterred. If career participa-
tion is a better predictor of marriage and fertility rates
than clerical and kindred work, then the potential exists for
changing marriage and fertility patterns in the United
States.
Before population policy is possible, a clearer under-
standing of influential variables and their interrelation-
ships is necessary. One theoretical perspective underlying
the study of predictors of fertility is social demography.
A brief history of this perspective and its applicability
for analyzing fertility reveals the necessity of using aggre-
gate, rather than only social-psychological, data in popula-
tion studies.
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Ross, Patricia A. An Investigation of the Relationship Among Occupational Opportunities for Women, Marriage, and Fertility, dissertation, May 1977; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc330883/m1/26/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .