Sociology 3308F/G Lecture Notes - Occupational Segregation
20 Apr 2013
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Social structure: relationship between one"s position in social structure and their well-being. Full integration: men and women being distributed equally across jobs: research talks about how many employed men would have to change jobs in order to achieve full integration. 1980: about 60% of employed men would have had to change jobs for integration to be achieved. Went down to 52% in the 2000"s: better but still not close to full integration. Women have longer life expectancy than men, but . Women experience higher rates of morbidity and disability than men (mainly towards the end of life) Work relation distress: women experience a higher level of stress associated with work as one potential explanation in overall health and chronic conditions link between stress and chronic conditions. Gender difference in job stress: comparing employed men and women. Differential exposure hypothesis: women have a greater exposure to stress associated with work: women more associated with jobs that have stressful characteristics (occupational segregation)
