This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the levels and recent changes in the sex
segregation of occupations. It is based on a unique new ILO data set which contains …

It is well known that women and men tend to work in different occupations, and generally
held that this disadvantages women. In order to understand how far this occupational …

This article introduces a structural approach to analyzing sex segregation data that rests on
margin-free measures of the underlying association in sex-by-occupation arrays. The …

While the existence of occupational gender segregation is well known, it has been usual to
see it as a reflection of women's disadvantage. However, cross-national data show that the …

Occupational gender segregation has generally been assumed to be a structure of gender
inequality in the labour market; high levels of segregation are equated with high levels of …

This article presents a new approach to measuring the most important dimension of gender
segregation–the vertical dimension–in quantitative survey data. This, in turn, allows for a …

Empirical studies of gender segregation by occupation must be founded on rigorous
measurement procedures. There appears to be a consensus that any index used in the …

This user-friendly manual, which can be used as a self-learning or as a teaching tool, guides
readers through all stages in producing data on occupational concentration and …

When considering labor market inequality across different demographic groups in society, it
is natural for most individuals to think of discrimination as the most likely explanation. Since …

This paper proposes a theoretical framework in which to study the segregation of a target
group in a multigroup context, which can be labeled as local segregation. In doing so, this …