Good Jobs, Good Deeds: The Gender-Specific Influences of Job Characteristics on Volunteering |
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Authors: | Gul Aldikacti Marshall Hiromi Taniguchi |
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Institution: | (1) University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA;(2) Sociology Department, University of Louisville, 103 Lutz Hall, Louisville, KY 40292, USA;; |
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Abstract: | While research has shown that having a “good” job significantly promotes formal volunteering, we have limited knowledge of
how this paid work-to-volunteer work relationship may differ between men and women. Based on the gender-identification spillover
theory, we hypothesize that because of the societal expectations that women should be caring, giving and communal, positive
job traits such as authority and autonomy promote women’s volunteering more than men’s. Our analysis of data from the National
Survey of Midlife in the United States shows that women who exercise supervisory authority on the job volunteer significantly
more hours than women who do not, whereas job authority makes no difference in the number of hours volunteered for men. Meanwhile,
job autonomy promotes men’s volunteering, but not women’s. Implications of these and related findings for future research
on gender and volunteering are discussed. |
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