%0 Journal Article %T Women's Occupational Mobility After Work Interruption %A Megumi Omori %A Shelley A. Smith %J Sociation Today %D 2006 %I North Carolina Sociological Association %X The basic tenents human capital theory suggest that women who leave occupations whith high atrophy rates will be those most likely to experience downward occupational mobility upon labor force renentry. The theory is confirmed. However, the impact on occupational mobility of an actual childbirth may opeerate indirectly through the length of time a woman is out of the labor force. %U humancapital;laborforceparticipation;womenandoccupationalmobility;workinterruption;employment