Sex Segregation in the Workplace Trends, Explanations, Remedies (1984) / Chapter Skim
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census occupational categories group some typically male and some typically female jobs into apparently integrated categories. To the extent that men and women workers in the same occupational categories are segregated by firm, aggregation across firms will result in an underestimate of the magnitude of sex segregation in employment.
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The studies in Chapters 4 and 10 do find some movement of women from predominantly female to predominantly male jobs and vice versa. In Chapter 4, Rosenfeld found that such changes in the sex labels of occupations were experienced by about onethird of women job changers over a oneyear period, while in Chapter 10 Corcoran, Duncan, and Ponza found that about onethird of all employed women made such shifts over a five-year period.
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To the extent that the human capital explanation has merit, the resulting decrease in women's work lives would increase the likelihood of their entering traditionally female jobs. Furthermore, while government training programs provide an opportunity for intervention to reduce segregation by training individuals for sex-atypical jobs, Waite and Berryman's research suggests in Chapter 16 that occupational training under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA)
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Sex segregation in employment remains a pervasive feature of the labor market and a major cause of women's lower earnings. While sex differences in socialization and the voluntary choices that women make in their selection of jobs may play a role in producing sex segregation in employment, labor market discrimination is undoubtedly also a major factor.
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