SOC362H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Glass Ceiling, Occupational Segregation, Sex Segregation
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Hardest occupation for women to get into is firefighting: harassment, physical labor, cultural ideals. Occupation: broad categories of the kind of work people do, or consider themselves trained and able to do, to earn an income. Occupational sex predominance: the extent to which the occupation is dominated by one gender or the other, or mixed between both. Measures of sex predominance: most common are 60% and 70% But, there is no widely-accepted point at which an occupation is considered predominated. Looks at whether women are or are not being treated the same as men: looks at occupational sex predominance to determine sex segregation. If a country has a lot of predominance in certain occupations, more segregation: sex segregation is not an indicator of bad country; sweden has lots of segregation. Segregation becomes gender segregation when cultural/social factors play a role. It"s the process that makes it gender: sex segregation can occur at other levels than occupation, 1.
