SOC362H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Glass Ceiling, Occupational Segregation, Sex Segregation
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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. What careers are harder for women to break into & succeed. Construction: physical & cultural ( building things are for men) No, but there is a lot of overlap. Occupations are the broad categories of the kind of work people do, or consider themselves trained and able to do, to earn an income. What you can do , paid to do, or trained to do. Broad categories of the kind of work people do, ie. lawyer, teacher, nurse, manager, etc. Having occupations implies inputs (training, skills) & outputs (earnings) Every employee person falls into one occupation category: occupational sex predominance for any occupation we can determine its sex predominance.
