SOC366H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Blue-Collar Worker, Occupational Segregation, Sex Segregation
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Sex differences in earnings occur in every occupation and in every country, although the magnitude of the disparities differs. Disparity in earnings between men and women is measured by the ratio of women"s to men"s earnings. Earnings ratio: calculated by dividing women"s average or median earnings by men"s indicates how much women earn for each dollar a man earns. Pay gay: short fall between how much men earn and how much women earn. Pay gap did not disappear with the spread of industrialization. Trends in the pay gap in us: 19th cent. men"s wages were low and women could barely support themselves on a fraction of men"s pay. Pay gap narrowed in mid 19th cent. because increased use of machinery reduced the important of strength. Decline in pay inequality were women"s increasing educative relative to men, enabled them to perform better paying jobs and the growth of white collar jobs.
