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Quiroz, Christopher McClintock, Elizabeth |
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Bringing Work Home: How Occupational Sex Composition Influences Traditional Gender Roles Presented: Montreal, QC, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2017 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: American Sociological Association Keyword(s): Gender Attitudes/Roles; Gender Differences; Occupational Attainment; Occupations, Non-Traditional Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. We explore the relationship between occupational sex composition and traditional gender ideology by using data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Study of Youth. Previous studies indicate two possible theories to describe how occupational context would affect gender opinions. First, gender deviance neutralization theory suggests that men and women in gender-atypical occupations would hold more traditional gender beliefs as a form of gender compensation. Second, gender conventionality theory suggests individuals in gender-atypical occupations would be more likely to break from tradition gender opinions and have greater egalitarian perceptions. We find that men and women do not compensate for gender-atypical career settings by adopting traditional gender opinions. The results indicate that men with egalitarian opinions are more likely to select into gender-atypical occupations, thus confirming the salience of gender conventionality theory for men. Occupational context has no effect for women respondents which supports previous findings that gender norms for women are more robust to external influences than for men. The implications for the findings are also addressed. |
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Quiroz, Christopher and Elizabeth McClintock. "Bringing Work Home: How Occupational Sex Composition Influences Traditional Gender Roles." Presented: Montreal, QC, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2017. |