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Engendered Workplace Segregation: Work is Still Essentially a Male Domain

Engendered Workplace Segregation: Work is Still Essentially a Male Domain
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Copyright: 2013
Pages: 25
Source title: Gendered Occupational Differences in Science, Engineering, and Technology Careers
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Julie Prescott (University of Bolton, UK)and Jan Bogg (The University of Liverpool, UK)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2107-7.ch001

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Abstract

This chapter aims to: give a clear understanding of gendered occupational segregation; demonstrate why it is an important issue for women today especially in terms of the persistent gender pay gap; discuss both horizontal and vertical segregation and how this impacts women in terms of pay, promotion, opportunities and society, through a lack of utilizing the whole of society’s workforce; and discuss men who work in female dominated industries and how men can benefit by their minority status, with an emphasis on the teaching profession. To give the reader a deeper and richer understanding of gendered occupational segregation outside of the SET sector, this chapter focuses on the UK’s finance sector. This sector is a particularly relevant and interesting sector to add to the discussions, as in both the UK and the USA, women hold an approximately equal percentage of the workforce as a whole, yet they are concentrated in the low paying, less prestigious jobs, and at the lower echelons of the sector.

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