WST 371 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Nurse Practitioner, Sex Segregation, Escalator
27 Feb 2017
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Finish w/sex segregation & discrimination
● Socialization is a process
● Discrimination
○ Institutional - built into the policies of the organization
■ Union & HR
○ Individual
■ “Gatekeepers” - allows you to get a promotion
● FLSA fair labor standards act
○ Min wages
○ 1930s
● 1963 - equal pay act
● wage/pay gap
● Sex segregation
○ Nursing
○ Where do men go in nursing?
>More likely to be in management/supervisory roles
■ Surgical
■ Nurse practitioner
■ Nurse anesthesia
■ ICU
■ ed/er
○ ~~~PAY BETTER
○ Extra certification takes time women might not have
● “Still a man’s world” (book)
○ Men - teachers
● Glass escalator
○ When men move up faster in women dominated fields
● Graduate to a pay gap
○ No matter what the factors may be, there will always be a different pay gap
○ Gap persists (starts early on)
○ “Choose” areas that pay less (women)
○ Still have lower earnings even when they do choose “male” paths
● Transgender wage gap
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