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Life Chances and Life Choices: Female Employee Perceptions of a University Tuition Waiver

Vanness, Pamela Myers
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1260480254

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2009, Master of Gerontological Studies, Miami University, Gerontology.
This thesis is a qualitative study of twelve female university employees who are eligible for a tuition waiver as a benefit of their employment but have not used the tuition waiver to further their own educations. The women, ages 44-55, were interviewed to explore their individual stories and their perceptions of the personal value of the tuition waiver. Their histories are viewed through a feminist lens and the life course perspective as the life course is characterized by gendered cumulative advantages and disadvantages. Findings suggest that off-timing of this life chance, which was incongruous with the perceived trajectory of their lives, contributed to their inabilities to take advantage of it. There was a lack of incentive to motivate them since they are content and satisfied with their lives. However, membership in a cohort that grew up during the women‟s movement of the 1960s and 1970s has had an impact upon their roles as mothers in terms of the educational goals they have for their children.
Kathryn McGrew, PhD (Committee Chair)
Jennifer Bulanda, PhD (Committee Member)
Stephen Lippmann, PhD (Committee Member)
49 p.
Gerontology
university, tuition, waiver, cumulative advantage and disadvantage; educational trajectory; life chance; life choice, women; female; life course

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  • Vanness, P. M. (2009). Life Chances and Life Choices: Female Employee Perceptions of a University Tuition Waiver [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1260480254

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Vanness, Pamela. Life Chances and Life Choices: Female Employee Perceptions of a University Tuition Waiver. 2009. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1260480254.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Vanness, Pamela. "Life Chances and Life Choices: Female Employee Perceptions of a University Tuition Waiver." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1260480254

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