PIP: Using a sequential events model, the relationship between female employment and fertility during a 5 year period in the 1970s is analyzed among married women in urban areas of the Dominican Republic. The use of alternative measures and procedures produced a consistent set of results indicating that there exists, at most, a minimal relationship between employment and fertility. While the focus has been on proximate events among stable married women, some evidence is provided of an inverse fertility employment relationship over the long term. The number of surviving children a woman had prior to the interval was negatively associated with interval employment, and the relationship between interval fertility and subsequent employment was negative but insignificant. The cumulation of birth tends to keep married women out of the labor force, but the effect is small. No effect, however, was observed of long or short term employment on interval fertility. Type of work also proved to be essentially unrelated to fertility. Only among white collar women who had recently initiated work did a negative relationship appear. Since employment in white collar professions represents the closest measure of employment in the "modern" sector, this finding indicates that fertility may be postponed over the short term while women develop the job specific skills and relations required to assure job reentry following childbirth. The apparent low degree of incompatibility between the roles of mother and market worker is not totally surprising given social and economic conditions in the Dominican Republic. The employment patterns resulting from general economic conditions may serve to reduce role incompatibility. There appears to be relative ease of market reentry, particularly in low skilled occupations such as domestic service and sales. When stable long term employment is not commonly available to mothers, frequent exits from the labor force to have children may not affect the quality and economic value of future employment, thereby reducing incompatibility between motherhood and employment. A more powerful employment effect on fertility may be occurring during earlier life cycle stages of Dominican women. Rapid social change is reflected in rising age at marriage, increasing proportions of women who never marry, rapid fertility declines, and increasing female employment. Better educated and more economically active women are less likely to be in marital unions. Similarly, employment may be affecting fertility through a delay in 1st marriage. While employment within marriage does not interfere significantly with childbearing, over the long run the effect may be negative. As women become more highly educated and seek employment, they appear less likely to marry or are likely to postpone their 1st marriage. Changes in women's status at earlier life cycle stages need to be examined in future dynamic studies to identify key determinants of subsequent life cycle events.^ieng