SOC 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Visible Minority, First Nations, Higher Education
23 Apr 2016
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Women work in a narrower rage of occupations and remain concentrated in these areas with lower pay and less social prestige. Majority of women are employed in two occupational sectors: clerical and admin and sales/service. Men dominate: management, senior management, natural science, engineering, and mathematics, trades, transport, construction, primary industries, and processing/manufacturing/ utilities. Men dominate six areas women dominate 3. When women enter into a male dominated sectors either thing happens: the sector becomes re-gendered, or subdivisions form within the sector. When re-gendering occurs it gets turned from a mans job to a women job, the job may decline in job security, wages, etc. start to lose appeal from men, which then women decide to take on. When women enter a occupation horizontal segregation begins to occur. Women earn less in every occupation even if it a women dominated field. Gendered wage gap appears across all educational levels. 70 cents for every dollar a man earns.
