JOURNAL OF VOCATIONAL BEHAVIOR 37, 104-120 (1%)) Marital and Family Correlates of Women Managers’ Attrition from Organizations HAZEL M. ROSIN York University, North York, Ontario, Canada AND KAREN KORABIK Universiry of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada This study examined the attrition of women managers from organizations. The extent of the problem, the reasons for it, and the marital and family correlates associated with it were investigated as a function of women’s career choices. Of 391 women MBAs, only 17% had left jobs with large organizations, but an additional 24.8% said they intended to leave their jobs. The respondents fell into two main categories. Those who were unemployed (n = 36) or working part- time (n = 18) cited wanting more time with their children as a reason for their work status. They had heavy family responsibilities, but planned to forego full- time employment only while their children were preschoolers. Those who were self-employed (n = 31) and those who wished to quit their full-time jobs (n = 97) had the least family obligations. Gender-related factors, such as office politics, and work-related factors, such as the lack of opportunity to progress, were the reasons they gave for their dissatisfaction with corporate life. o 1990 Academic Press. Inc. According to recent media accounts, sizeable numbers of competent professional women have been leaving organizations to devote them- selves full-time to home and family or to start their own businesses (Lipovenko, 1987; Maynard, 1988). Although some exploratory research Requests for reprints should be sent to: Dr. Hazel M. Rosin, Faculty of Administrative Studies, York University, 4700 Keele Street, North York, Ontario, Canada M3J lP3. This research was supported by a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. A previous version of this paper was presented as part of a symposium at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Washington, DC, August 1989. The authors thank Russell Day and Brian Rennick for their help with the data entry and analysis and the Ontario Women’s MBA Association for its assistance in providing a sample. 104 0001-8791190 $3.00 Copyright 0 1990 by Academic Press. Inc. All rights of reproduction in any form reserved.