Draws on a life course perspective and event history methods to analyze factors affecting women's school reentry following marriage and motherhood. Uses panel data on 313 women born between 1905 and 1933 who were interviewed in 1956 and 1986. School reentry was positively related to higher levels of prior education, nontraditional gender-role…

Career theory is not a new topic, but one with an interesting past. The theories have been developed through working with men in the early days of the study of careers, modified to add women, and then modified even more for men and women in transition. Making a career decision is not a single event that takes place only in one's early adulthood,…