Work-Lifestyle Choices in the 21st Century: Preference Theory

By C. Hakim. 2002

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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In Gender Studies

1. Pia S. Schober
2. Nadia Steiber
3. Barbara Haas
4. L. Cohen
5. J. Arnold
6. Javier G Polavieja
7. L. Platt
8. C. Baldry

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Pia S. Schober
2. J. Ashby
3. Nadia Steiber
4. Barbara Haas
5. L. Cohen
6. J. Arnold
7. Javier G Polavieja
8. L. Platt

Citations in the corpus

• Onto, Up, Off the Academic Faculty Ladder: The Gendered Effects of Family on Career Transitions for a Cohort of Social Science Ph.D.s (2011, background): “Different rates of transitioning into academia may be a function of different career goals or expectations, and previous research has shown that career preferences may vary by gender (Fox & Stephan, 2001), a factor that may influence the impact of gender on career outcomes (Hakim, 2000).”
• Maternal employment and gender role attitudes: dissonance among British men and women in the transition to parenthood (2012, background): “In recent years, there has been a marked increase in research on women’s gender role attitudes or work-family preferences as predictors of their labour force participation (e.g. Hakim, 2000; Kan, 2007; Kangas and Rostgaard, 2007).”
• Understanding the ethnic pay gap in Britain (2012, background): “First, if women’s family commitments lead them to accept lower paid work (Hakim, 2000) or, seen differently, are a source of constraint in employment opportunity rather than of choice (Scott et al., 2008), these factors do not apply to ethnicity.”
• Working Time Mismatch and Subjective Well-being (2009, positive): “…given the widespread survey evidence that most part-time employees appear to prefer part-time hours.1 Indeed, it is often argued that part-time work is especially attractive to women, and tends to be consistent with their own attitudes and preferences (e.g., Fortin 2005; Hakim 2000, 2002).”
• Preference or constraint? Part-time workers' transitions in Denmark, France and the United Kingdom (2008, neutral): “One means of asserting the dominance and independence of preferences over structures is the claim that attitudes and preferences are formed early on in life, predominantly through childhood socialisation (i.e. Fortin 2005; Hakim 2000) – with strong links found between parents’ and children’s working”
• Gendered travel mode choice: a focus on car deficient households (2012, background): “Preference hypothesis: Social psychologists and some sociologists study the importance of gender attitudes and norms based on preference (e.g. Hakim, 2000).”
• Erotic Capital: The Power of Attraction in the Boardroom and the Bedroom (2011, background): “Indeed, research suggests that marriage markets and labour markets can be equally important routes to social status and wealth for women in modern societies (Thelot, 1982; Erikson and Goldthorpe, 1993, pp. 231–77; Hakim, 2000, pp. 160–163).”
• Employment Flexibility in Spain and its Impact on Transitions to Adulthood (2003, background): “On the other hand, some women may not look for a permanent place in the labour market if they opt for marriage and motherhood as their long-term family career (Hakim, 2000).”
• Career success: The role of teenage career aspirations, ambition value and gender in predicting adult social status and earnings (2010, background): “Gender-typical job preferences are one possible explanation as to why women do not receive the same rewards as men for their accomplishments in terms of earnings and career progression (e.g., Hakim, 2000,).”
• A New Approach to Explaining Fertility Patterns: Preference Theory (2003, methodology): “SOURCE: Hakim (2000). women.”
• The Psychology of Careers in Industrial - Organizational Settings: A Critical but Appreciative Analysis (2008, background): “Hakim (2000, 2006) has argued on the basis of her ‘preference theory’ that family friendly policies are predicated on the assumption that women’s disadvantaged position is due to sex discrimination.”
• Saying and Doing Gender: Intergenerational Transmission of Attitudes towards the Sexual Division of Labour (2016, background): “Parental sex-typical behaviours can thus have an independent socialization influence on children’s ASDL because they allow 3 Hakim (2000) argues that attitudes are likely influenced by processes of social desirability and do not reflect people’s (true) preferences.”