This project investigates the relationship between religious involvement and women's work and family pathways in the United States. I identify five work‐family configurations using National Longitudinal Study of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) data and latent class analysis. These configurations incorporate cohabitation histories, timing of family formation, and maternal employment. Then, I analyze how adolescent religiosity and personal and family characteristics are associated with subsequent work‐family pathways. Affiliation with an evangelical Protestant tradition is associated with women who form families early, while Catholic affiliation is tied to later family formation. Importantly, family background characteristics such as living with both biological parents and higher parental education, as well as race/ethnicity and the respondent's educational attainment, are the most consistent variables associated with work‐family configurations. These results suggest that religious involvement, when considered alongside family background, contributes to women's unequal work‐family pathways in adulthood. The close links between religion, family, and stratification are evident in the study of women's work‐family experiences.

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通过妇女工作家庭途径调查宗教与不平等

该项目调查了美国宗教参与与妇女工作和家庭途径之间的关系。我使用1979年全国青年纵向研究（NLSY79）数据和潜在类别分析来确定五个工作家庭配置。这些配置包括同居历史，家庭组建时间和孕妇就业。然后，我分析了青少年的宗教信仰，个人和家庭特征如何与随后的工作家庭途径相关联。具有福音派新教传统的隶属关系与早期组建家庭的妇女有关，而天主教的隶属关系则与后来的家庭形成联系在一起。重要的是，家庭背景特征，例如与亲生父母住在一起和接受更高的父母教育，以及种族/民族和受访者的 受教育程度是与工作家庭配置相关的最一致的变量。这些结果表明，与家庭背景一起考虑，宗教参与会导致女性成年后不平等的工作家庭途径。宗教，家庭和阶层之间的紧密联系在对妇女工作家庭经历的研究中很明显。