Table A1.
Ordinary least squares (OLS) regressions predicting the impact of transitioning from being a housewife to paid employment on women’s mental health.
| GHQ-12 | Total Sample |
Traditional Women | Egalitarian Women |
|---|---|---|---|
| Model 1 | Model 2 | Model 3 | |
| Job status (Ref. = Remain to be housewives) | |||
| Transition into paid employment | 1.67 *** | 1.89 * | 1.68 *** |
| (0.42) | (0.87) | (0.48) | |
| GRA, (Ref. = Traditional women) | |||
| Egalitarian women | 0.58 | ||
| (0.43) | |||
| Age group | 0.17 | 0.67 | 0.13 |
| (0.29) | (0.60) | (0.33) | |
| Marital status, (Ref. = Never married) | |||
| Married | 0.57 | 2.78 * | 0.17 |
| (0.53) | (1.15) | (0.60) | |
| Divorced/separated/widowed | −0.50 | 3.17 * | −1.50 |
| (0.78) | (1.46) | (0.90) | |
| Presence of children, (Ref. = No) | |||
| Yes | −0.12 | −0.45 | 0.12 |
| (0.63) | (1.40) | (0.69) | |
| Presence of longstanding illness, (Ref. = Yes) | |||
| No | 3.16 *** | 3.39 *** | 3.09 *** |
| (0.46) | (0.84) | (0.53) | |
| Logged income | −0.28 * | −0.19 | −0.30 * |
| (0.13) | (0.29) | (0.14) | |
| Ethnic group, (Ref. = British) | |||
| Not British | 0.73 | 0.74 | 0.77 |
| (0.40) | (0.71) | (0.48) | |
| Constant | 22.03 *** | 18.39 *** | 23.04 *** |
| (1.36) | (2.87) | (1.39) | |
| Number of respondents (Traditional women) | 1222 | 326 | 896 |
| R-squared | 0.09 | 0.12 | 0.10 |
Note: Robust standard errors in parentheses *** p < 0.001, * p < 0.05.