Employment Withdrawal among Married Women in Taiwan: The Moderating Effects of Wife and Husband’s Personal and Work characteristics

• Main Authors: Meng-Jhen Li, 李孟臻
• Other Authors: Chen-Lan Kuo
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2019
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/36qh9f

碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 社會學研究所 === 107 === Previous studies suggest that married women’s personal and work characteristics, their husband’s personal and work characteristics, and their parenting statuses may influence married women’s employment decisions. Using data from the "East Asian Social Class and Social Mobility to Study the Basic Survey of Taiwan''s Social Changes", the current study investigates how the risk of exiting from employment among Taiwanese married women is shaped by their family life cycles. Moreover, the current study further investigates how the association between married women’s risk of employment withdrawal and family life cycles may be conditioned by women’s own and their husband’s personal and work characteristics. The current study found that the risk of employment withdrawal for married women are highest for times before they start to have children and when they are rearing young children at ages 3 or below. The heightened risk of employment withdrawal married women experienced before they started to have children suggests that family care burden for Taiwanese women may not simply come from rearing and caring for young children alone. The current study found that the risk of employment withdrawal for higher-educated married women who are rearing pre-school children at ages 3 or below are lower, however, the risk of employment withdrawal for married women who have tertiary education level is highest when married women have children at ages 6-18. The current study found that the risk of employment withdrawal for married women who work excessive hours would be high, and the risk would become higher when they are rearing children at ages 3-6. At last, the husband’s working hours and education level have no significant effect on the risk of employment withdrawal among married women in the study. The current study further focuses on the moderating effects of wife’s own and husband’s personal and work characteristics on the risk of employment withdrawal for married women. It found the risk of employment withdrawal for married women in family life cycle would become different because of their education level and work characteristics.