SOC366H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Human Capital, Homosociality, Glass Ceiling
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Employers use promotions to retain valued workers, to fill higher level positions with workers familiar with the company, and to give workers an incentive to work harder. Gss and nlsy: indicates a small to moderate gender gap in promotions. Data indicates that men had a very slight edge over women. Nlsy data concern only recent promotions of workers in midcareer and do not pick up sex differences during the early years of a career when most promotions occur. Men promoted at faster rate during those years, which sex gap disappears. Federal government: women now have been promoted at a higher rate than men. Yet these promotions were in the low and midlevel ranks. Size of sex differences in promotion rates depends on characteristics of workers 1. education. Being married increases chances of a man being promoted but has opposite effect for women.
