Education, Work, and Family Events in Women's Lives

This book investigates how educational expansion, the trend towards theservice society and the German unification affect East and West Germanwomen's life courses and family lives. It focuses on educational enrolment,educational attainment level, labour force participation, career resources,social origin, the educational match among partners as well as historicalperiods and examines their consequences on women's entry into first motherhoodas well as partnership formation and dissolution processes. Usinglongitudinal data from the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS),multivariatemethods such as event history analysis were applied. The findingssuggest that women's entry into motherhood during full-time educationis highly dependent on women's age, social origin and the policy measuresin a country.