From status attainment to segregation and devaluation
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Status-attainment models summarize the ways through which socioeconomic origins affect scioeconomic outcomes, directly and through education. This is done through the estimation of the effects of socioeconomic background on education, their effects on the status of the individual's first and present occupation as well as their effects on earnings. These models generate the samecoefficients for women and men. However, occupational segregation is still pervasive due to gendered socialization and discrimination which eventually result in lower pay for women.
Publication Name: Contemporary Sociology
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0094-3061
Year: 1992
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Trends in women's economic status
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Increased employment opportunities since World War II explain the increase in women's employment. However, the decrease in men's income and the increased inequalities of men's earnings in the 1970s and early 1980s may be important factors. Decreased job-type discrimination since 1970 has largely resulted from women entering 'male' jobs, not conversely. The gap in pay observed between 'male' and 'female' jobs is explained by an indirect form of gender bias that leads to differentially valued skills. These differences have led to a feminization of poverty.
Publication Name: Sociological Perspectives
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0731-1214
Year: 1992
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Occupational desegregation in the 1970s: integration and economic equity?
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Women moved into traditionally male-dominated occupations in the 1970s, but this change probably made no real progress. Fourteen occupations were studied that showed an influx of women during the 1970s. This influx was accounted for largely by the loss of attractiveness of the occupations for men. Similarly, the decline in the wage gap between male and female workers that occurred in some occupations resulted from a drop in men's earnings.
Publication Name: Sociological Perspectives
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0731-1214
Year: 1992
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