"That They Be Keepers of the Home": The Effect of Conservative Religion on Early and Late Transitions into Housewifery
Feminist critiques of religion invariably point to passages from sacred texts and influential theological tracts that place women in a divinely sanctioned subordinate role. Based on examinations of insider documents and empirical analyses, I detail how conservative Christian women make decisions abo...
| Published in: | Review of religious research |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2000
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Review of religious research
Year: 2000, Volume: 41, Issue: 3, Pages: 344-358 |
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| Summary: | Feminist critiques of religion invariably point to passages from sacred texts and influential theological tracts that place women in a divinely sanctioned subordinate role. Based on examinations of insider documents and empirical analyses, I detail how conservative Christian women make decisions about careers. Using written materials widely circulated in conservative Protestant communities, I document how conservative Christians view female labor force participation--proscribing careers other than that of housewife, especially when children are in their "tender years." I test whether religious factors influence transitions to housewifery by estimating survival regression models and multinomial logistic regression models on data from the Youth Parent Socialization Panel Study. I find that early transitions to becoming a housewife are strongly influenced by fundamentalist orientations. Also, religious fundamentalism does not predict transitions to becoming a housewife later in the early life course. Finally, fundamentalism significantly increases the risk that a woman spends her early career as a housewife, and then enters paid employment later in life. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-4866 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3512034 |