The influence of women’s work opportunities on marriage rates |
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Authors: | Samuel H. Preston Alan Thomas Richards |
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Affiliation: | 1. Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, Department of Sociology, University of Washington, 98195, Seattle, Washington
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Abstract: | Several authors have argued that increased work opportunities for women have helped to produce a reduction in the average age at marriage in the United States. This paper tests this proposition on data for the 100 largest SMSA's in 1960. Using ordinary least-squares regression, we find that areas of relatively attractive female employment opportunities had relatively low proportions of women ever married in the age interval 22-24. Other variables significantly related to the proportion married in an SMSA are its sex ratio, percent Catholic, and number of inhabitants. A decline in the sex ratio and improvements in female employment opportunities appear to have been equally influential in producing declines in proportions married between 1960 and 1970. |
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