SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Human Capital, Social Constructionism, Occupational Segregation
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Inequalities in the labour market can take a number of forms: disparities in wages by sex, vertical occupational segregation. Hierarchical form of segregation men are given a usually higher position within a firm, or job. There are more male professors than female professors, the gap widens as you move to the highest rank of professor: horizontal occupation segregation. Within categories of jobs, arises when men and women are clustered in different types of jobs. Men are more likely to be clustered in the manual labour industry whereas, women are more likely to be nurses or librarians. Female dominated occupations are usually less lucrative and/or less prestigious. Social constructionism in the 1940"s and 1950"s created gender segregation. Work can be highly gendered, based on race and heterosexuality. Theories of gender inequality in the labour market: occupational segregation, human capital, social capital, statistical discrimination/sexism. Dead end jobs women are over represented in these dead-end jobs.
