Despite improvements on many measures of gender equality over the past 50 years,
occupational gender segregation remains a defining characteristic of modern labor markets …

Occupational gender segregation remains one of the defining elements of gender inequality
in modern societies. Recent trends for the United States show that occupational segregation …

This chapter reviews research on the segregation of women and men in the workplace. After
examining ways to measure segregation, I summarize trends in sex segregation in the …

Even though women have made substantial progress in a number of formerly male
occupations, sex segregation in the workplace remains a fact of life. This volume probes …

How pervasive is sex segregation in the workplace? Does the concentration of women into a
few professions reflect their personal preferences, the" tastes" of employers, or sex-role …

Bob Blackburn is a Reader in sociology and Chairperson of the Sociological Research
Group in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, and a Fellow of Clare College, in the …

Explores explanations of gender segregation at work, the changing forms and levels of
segregation, and deliberate attempts to reduce it. Provides the general theoretical and …

This chapter is an effort to understand why women do “women's work.” In 1985, over two-
thirds of the women in the US civilian labor force worked in occupations that were 70 percent …

Women are now roughly half of the workforce, but that parity in the overall labor force has
not translated into a balanced distribution of men and women across jobs and occupations …

This study uses comparable data on 470 detailed occupations from the 1970, 1980, and
1990 Censuses to analyze trends in occupational segregation in the United States in the …