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Title: How Can We Explain the Apparent Sex Similarities in Occupational Status Attainment?
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Fligstein, Neil Wolf, Wendy |
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How Can We Explain the Apparent Sex Similarities in Occupational Status Attainment? In: Women's Changing Roles at Home and on the Job: National Commission for Manpower Policy, Special Report No: 26. Washington, DC: U.S. GPO, 1978 Cohort(s): Mature Women Publisher: U.S. Department of Labor Keyword(s): Occupational Segregation; Occupational Status; Sex Equality; Sex Roles In the past, studies to discover the extent and nature of sexual inequalities in economic rewards and labor market positions have been concentrated in three major areas: wage differentials, occupational segregation by sex, and occupational status differentials. While research in two of these areas, wage differentials and occupational segregation by sex, have illustrated sexual inequalities and pointed to ways to remedy them, research on sex differences in occupational status attainment has led to the somewhat paradoxical findings that men and women essentially have parity in labor market positions. This paradox has ambiguities as to the mechanism by which sexual equality in labor market positions could be obtained. This paper attempts to discuss and empirically assess why the status attainment literature produces seemingly paradoxical findings about sexual inequalities in labor market positions. In this paper, these three research traditions are briefly discussed and the authors posit and test one explanation for the counterintuitive findings of the status attainment literature. They find that one potential source of bias in estimating equations for women's occupational attainments is the exclusion of nonworking women from the occupational attainments equations. They present a technique that presents estimations of the structural parameters for all currently employed women, regardless of their occupational status. |
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Fligstein, Neil and Wendy Wolf. "How Can We Explain the Apparent Sex Similarities in Occupational Status Attainment?" In: Women's Changing Roles at Home and on the Job: National Commission for Manpower Policy, Special Report No: 26. Washington, DC: U.S. GPO, 1978
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