The Impact of Education and Family Attributes on Attitudes and Responses to Unemployment among Men and Women

Authors

Liat Kulik, Bar Ilan University

Abstract

The study deals with differences between jobless Israeli women (n = 361) and men (n = 253) in relation to the following aspects of unemployment: Reasons for rejecting potential jobs, job search intensity, and responses to unemployment. The women mentioned more reasons for rejecting potential jobs, and their health-related responses to unemployment were more extreme than those of the men. However, the men tended to seekemployment more intensively than did the women.

Married respondents of both sexes showed the greatest tendency to reject potential employment due to conflict with family responsibilities. Married women were also more likely than their male counterparts to reject potential jobs due to adverse working conditions or masculine-typed employment. Moreover, for both men and women the number of dependent children was related to the tendency to reject potential employment due to conflict with family responsibilities. The divorced-widowed respondents expressed more negative responses to unemployment compared with respondents the other family status groups. Education level affected responses to unemployment and rejection of jobs; although it did not have a differential impact on men and women.

Recommended Citation

Kulik, Liat (2000) "The Impact of Education and Family Attributes on Attitudes and Responses to Unemployment among Men and Women," The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare: Vol. 27: Iss. 2, Article 9.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15453/0191-5096.2650
Available at: https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/jssw/vol27/iss2/9