PSY302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sex Segregation, Where We Are, Vise
15 Oct 2016
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127-129. article argues that men in engeneering and math related jobs tend to get better paying jobs, more than women who work in soc/health related jobs. The difference between occupational segregation and occupational concentration. The differences with broad or narrow occupational categories. Terms to know occupation occupational segregation occupational concentration sex predominance job segregation industrial segregation narrow occupational categories. Idea that men and women do different jobs, work in different industries and organizations. Sex segregation 3 terms: occupations: broad category for the kind of work you do or get trained to do. Can still be unemployed and inactive: sex predominance: an occupation that is male dominated, female dominated or mixed. We look at percentages of women of men in an occupation, for it to be dominated. There is no ideal number or percentage to consider it dominated. 1,396k 69 law and social, community and government services (numbers in thousands) from last year.
