caa a22 4500 397524463 CHVBK 20180308164641.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e19951101xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/3097046 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.2307/3097046 Iversen Roberta Rehner Bryn Mawr College Poor African American Women and Work: The Occupational Attainment Process [Elektronische Daten] [Roberta Rehner Iversen] I use multiple measures to examine the occupational attainment process among urban African American women from low-income backgrounds. Using 10-year follow-up data and earlier study data, I found that employment histories and current employment had more impact than childbearing events or amount of education on the income and job quality of minority women in their mid-twenties. Simply being employed led to an adequate job with minimal financial self-sufficiency. The most important contributor to a "good job,” one with ample earnings and more than adequate non-wage benefits, was having content-specific educational goals in high school, attaining post-high school training in the same content area, and obtaining jobs that utilized this content background. These findings suggest that chronological interruptions in the traditional occupational attainment process are normative for poor African American women, and, by themselves, are not opportunity costs; however, interruptions in content consistency result in lowered occupational attainment. © 1995 Society for the Study of Social Problems, Inc. Social Structure and Poverty nationallicence Social Problems Oxford University Press 42/4(1995-11-01), 554-573 0037-7791 42:4<554 1995 42 socpro https://doi.org/10.2307/3097046 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/3097046 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Iversen Roberta Rehner Bryn Mawr College NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Social Problems Oxford University Press 42/4(1995-11-01), 554-573 0037-7791 42:4<554 1995 42 socpro Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford