Radcliffe class of 1969
Published: 1979
Language: eng
Subjects: Women; Employment; Longitudinal studies; Women college graduates; Career development
Description: This study was designed to explore the career patterns of Radcliffe Alumni from the class of 1969, at two ten year intervals (1979, 1990) to assess work committment, the different elements of it, factors associated with it, and how work committment changed over time.

The 1990 questionnaire was completed by 149 women, 99 of which had also completed the 1979 questionnaire. The questionnaires include both openended and precoded questions on family background, current family status, education and occupation, career planning, career patterns, work experiences,beliefs/attitudes, and work force participation patterns.

In addition, in-depth interviews were conducted with a representative subsample of nine participants to provide a more qualitative perspective on these women's experiences as one of the first generations of women to assume life-long employment, to enter male-dominated fields in large numbers and to postpone child-rearing.

The Murray Center has copies of the transcribed interviews, the original questionnaires from 1979 and 1990, and the machine-readable data.
Notes: Sample characteristics: sample size: 101-500; time: 80s; race: white; age: 30-39, 40-49; number of generations: 1; gender: female; ses: middle upper.

Data collection methods: design: longitudinal; length of data collection: 6-10 years; measures: questionnaires, interviews.

Follow-up possible: yes; follow-up available: no.