Janet Siltanen
Biographic Data
| ID | 274007 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janet Siltanen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janet |
| FAMILY NAME | Siltanen |
| SIGNATURE | SILTANEN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carleton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 159 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Teaching, Supervising, and Supporting PhD Students: Identifying Issues, Addressing Challenges, Sharing Strategies
Committing Sociology: Methodological and Epistemological Reflections Introduction
Intersectionality and quantitative methods: Assessing regression from a feminist perspective
This article examines the use of quantitative methods to advance feminist-inspired understandings of intersectionality. We acknowledge a range of conflicting opinions about the suitability of current quantitative techniques. To contribute to this debate, we assess the conceptualizations of intersectionality embedded in the most common approach to quantitative analysis, multiple regression. We identify three features of intersectional analysis hig…
This is how I want to live my life”: An Experiment in Prefigurative Feminist Organizing for a More Equitable and Inclusive City
This paper aims to think differently about possibilities for feminist organizing in cities. We use a current experiment with city‐based feminist organizing to explore how it can be possible to work with the local state while at the same time challenging and disrupting understandings and practices that marginalize the diversity of women's needs, contributions and concerns. Trying to work “inside” the local state while maintaining an “outside” crit…
Urban Contestation in a Feminist Register
Approaches to urban contestation that challenge the dichotomy between institutionalization and opposition, and understand contestation as including engagement, are explored. The emphasis is on how recent forms of feminist analysis and critical scholarship open up a conceptual terrain for such thinking, and the discussion is grounded using further details of City for All Women Initiative/Initiative: une ville pour toutes les femmes (CAWI-IVTF), wh…
Flows, Eddies, Swamps and Whirlpools: Inequality and the Experience of Work Change
The main concern of this paper is how inequalities are implicated in the capacity individuals have to deal with changes in their work. The ability to deal with change - to seek it out, go with it, benefit from it - is a key aspect of neo-liberal discourse on the contemporary economy. Yet, there is little recognition within this discourse of the different capacities individuals have to initiate or respond to work change. This paper draws attention…
Separately Together: Working Reflexively as a Team
Discussions of reflexivity tend to ignore issues of practice, and those addressing practice are likely to presume a sole researcher. In this paper, we respond to the need for attention to reflexive practice in qualitative research teams. Drawing on our experience of working ‘separately together’, we identify reflexivity as an embedded feature of team-based research. We discuss how reflexivity can be used as a collective interpretive resource in t…
Gender, Diversity And The Shaping Of Public Policy: Recent Aspects Of The Canadian Experience
Paradise Paved? Reflections on the Fate of Social Citizenship in Canada
The aim of this paper is to assess the potential of the concept of social citizenship for articulating progressive policy development in Canada. I argue that the revisioning of social citizenship is hampered by a recent notion that it is part of the superseded welfare policy paradigm of the past. Many analysts characterize a shift in the objectives of Canadian social policy as a move away from a 'golden age' policy paradigm, which emphasized the …
Gender Inequality in the Labour Market: Occupational Concentration and Segregation
This user-friendly manual, which can be used for self-learning or as a teaching tool, guides readers through all stages in producing data on occupational concentration and segregation. It clarifies concepts and measures, discusses quality and availability of information, and reviews various methodological tools, using well-known statistical software packages
A Reply to Lampard
A Reply to Lampard
Two important issues concerning the measurement of segregation are raised by Richard Lampard. He shows the relationship between the Gini coefficient (G) and the marginal matching measure (MM), and he suggests that G may have a particular advantage as a measure of segregation in that it retains more information than MM. It is worth developing these points further, and seeing whether G really does have an advantage. We shall demonstrate that MM ret…
A Reply to Watts
A Reply to Watts
Gender, the Professions, and Employment Citizenship
(1994). Gender, the Professions, and Employment Citizenship. International Journal of Sociology: Vol. 24, Work and Welfare in a Changing Europe Part I: Transformation of the European Societies, pp. 43-66
The Analysis of Occupational Gender Segregation over Time and Place: Considerations of Measurement and Some New Evidence
Despite the importance of occupational segregation as an area of investigation concerned with understanding women's employment status, pay levels, and promotional prospects during the last 20 years, there has been relatively little attention paid to the problems of trying to measure segregation levels in quantitative data. This paper argues that there are serious measurement problems which it illustrates by showing that two of the principal indic…
Further Comment on the Sex Ratio Index
In 'The Sex Ratio Index Revisited', Watts questions the demonstration of the limitations of the index in Siltanen (1990), and rejects the standardised version as an alternative measure. In this reply, I would like to briefly reiterate my original argument, for its intention has been misread, at least by Watts. In addition, I would like to make explicit, and comment on, two closely related conceptual issues that frame his detailed comments: the in…
Social Change and the Measurement of Occupational Segregation by Sex: An Assessment of the Sex Ratio Index
This paper is an assessment of the sex ratio index as a measure of trends in occupational segregation by sex. The sex ratio index is the summary measure of horizontal segregation used in the Department of Employment studies of gender segregation in the British occupational structure. The paper argues that the sex ratio index has undesirable properties as a summary measure of occupational segregation by sex. Consequently, it is not convincing as a…
Localities, Class and Gender
Deindustrialization, households and politics the class and gender restructuring of the Lancaster economy, 1950-1980 comparable localities - some problems of method explaining peripheral change policy, planning, and peripheral development occupational stratification and gender theories of women, work and unemployment spatial and historical variations in women's unemployment and employment capitalist and patriarchal relations at work - Preston cott…
Women and the Public Sphere: A Critique of Sociology and Politics
The politics of private woman and public man
A comparison of the allocation of male and female occupational prestige
Ce travail cherche à répondre à deux questions: de quel façon le sexe d'un ouvrier influence l'évaluation du prestige professionnel, et quelle est la relation existant entre la composition des sexes par rapport aux occupations, et l'évaluation du prestige professionnel lorsque le sexe des ouvriers est pris en considération. Trois échelles du prestige professionnel (traditionnelle, masculine, féminine) sont créées. Les résultats indiquent des diff…
The Analysis of Occupational Gender Segregation over Time and Place: Considerations of Measurement and Some New Evidence
Despite the importance of occupational segregation as an area of investigation concerned with understanding women's employment status, pay levels, and promotional prospects during the last 20 years, there has been relatively little attention paid to the problems of trying to measure segregation levels in quantitative data. This paper argues that there are serious measurement problems which it illustrates by showing that two of the principal indic…
Separately Together: Working Reflexively as a Team
Discussions of reflexivity tend to ignore issues of practice, and those addressing practice are likely to presume a sole researcher. In this paper, we respond to the need for attention to reflexive practice in qualitative research teams. Drawing on our experience of working ‘separately together’, we identify reflexivity as an embedded feature of team-based research. We discuss how reflexivity can be used as a collective interpretive resource in t…
Intersectionality and quantitative methods: Assessing regression from a feminist perspective
This article examines the use of quantitative methods to advance feminist-inspired understandings of intersectionality. We acknowledge a range of conflicting opinions about the suitability of current quantitative techniques. To contribute to this debate, we assess the conceptualizations of intersectionality embedded in the most common approach to quantitative analysis, multiple regression. We identify three features of intersectional analysis hig…
Social Change and the Measurement of Occupational Segregation by Sex: An Assessment of the Sex Ratio Index
This paper is an assessment of the sex ratio index as a measure of trends in occupational segregation by sex. The sex ratio index is the summary measure of horizontal segregation used in the Department of Employment studies of gender segregation in the British occupational structure. The paper argues that the sex ratio index has undesirable properties as a summary measure of occupational segregation by sex. Consequently, it is not convincing as a…
Gender Inequality in the Labour Market: Occupational Concentration and Segregation
This user-friendly manual, which can be used for self-learning or as a teaching tool, guides readers through all stages in producing data on occupational concentration and segregation. It clarifies concepts and measures, discusses quality and availability of information, and reviews various methodological tools, using well-known statistical software packages
A comparison of the allocation of male and female occupational prestige
Ce travail cherche à répondre à deux questions: de quel façon le sexe d'un ouvrier influence l'évaluation du prestige professionnel, et quelle est la relation existant entre la composition des sexes par rapport aux occupations, et l'évaluation du prestige professionnel lorsque le sexe des ouvriers est pris en considération. Trois échelles du prestige professionnel (traditionnelle, masculine, féminine) sont créées. Les résultats indiquent des diff…
This is how I want to live my life”: An Experiment in Prefigurative Feminist Organizing for a More Equitable and Inclusive City
This paper aims to think differently about possibilities for feminist organizing in cities. We use a current experiment with city‐based feminist organizing to explore how it can be possible to work with the local state while at the same time challenging and disrupting understandings and practices that marginalize the diversity of women's needs, contributions and concerns. Trying to work “inside” the local state while maintaining an “outside” crit…
Paradise Paved? Reflections on the Fate of Social Citizenship in Canada
The aim of this paper is to assess the potential of the concept of social citizenship for articulating progressive policy development in Canada. I argue that the revisioning of social citizenship is hampered by a recent notion that it is part of the superseded welfare policy paradigm of the past. Many analysts characterize a shift in the objectives of Canadian social policy as a move away from a 'golden age' policy paradigm, which emphasized the …
The politics of private woman and public man
Urban Contestation in a Feminist Register
Approaches to urban contestation that challenge the dichotomy between institutionalization and opposition, and understand contestation as including engagement, are explored. The emphasis is on how recent forms of feminist analysis and critical scholarship open up a conceptual terrain for such thinking, and the discussion is grounded using further details of City for All Women Initiative/Initiative: une ville pour toutes les femmes (CAWI-IVTF), wh…
A Reply to Lampard
Two important issues concerning the measurement of segregation are raised by Richard Lampard. He shows the relationship between the Gini coefficient (G) and the marginal matching measure (MM), and he suggests that G may have a particular advantage as a measure of segregation in that it retains more information than MM. It is worth developing these points further, and seeing whether G really does have an advantage. We shall demonstrate that MM ret…
Gender, the Professions, and Employment Citizenship
(1994). Gender, the Professions, and Employment Citizenship. International Journal of Sociology: Vol. 24, Work and Welfare in a Changing Europe Part I: Transformation of the European Societies, pp. 43-66
Flows, Eddies, Swamps and Whirlpools: Inequality and the Experience of Work Change
The main concern of this paper is how inequalities are implicated in the capacity individuals have to deal with changes in their work. The ability to deal with change - to seek it out, go with it, benefit from it - is a key aspect of neo-liberal discourse on the contemporary economy. Yet, there is little recognition within this discourse of the different capacities individuals have to initiate or respond to work change. This paper draws attention…
A Reply to Lampard
A Reply to Watts
A comparison of the allocation of male and female occupational prestige
Ce travail cherche à répondre à deux questions: de quel façon le sexe d'un ouvrier influence l'évaluation du prestige professionnel, et quelle est la relation existant entre la composition des sexes par rapport aux occupations, et l'évaluation du prestige professionnel lorsque le sexe des ouvriers est pris en considération. Trois échelles du prestige professionnel (traditionnelle, masculine, féminine) sont créées. Les résultats indiquent des diff…
The politics of private woman and public man
Women and the Public Sphere: A Critique of Sociology and Politics
Localities, Class and Gender
Deindustrialization, households and politics the class and gender restructuring of the Lancaster economy, 1950-1980 comparable localities - some problems of method explaining peripheral change policy, planning, and peripheral development occupational stratification and gender theories of women, work and unemployment spatial and historical variations in women's unemployment and employment capitalist and patriarchal relations at work - Preston cott…
Further Comment on the Sex Ratio Index
In 'The Sex Ratio Index Revisited', Watts questions the demonstration of the limitations of the index in Siltanen (1990), and rejects the standardised version as an alternative measure. In this reply, I would like to briefly reiterate my original argument, for its intention has been misread, at least by Watts. In addition, I would like to make explicit, and comment on, two closely related conceptual issues that frame his detailed comments: the in…
Social Change and the Measurement of Occupational Segregation by Sex: An Assessment of the Sex Ratio Index
This paper is an assessment of the sex ratio index as a measure of trends in occupational segregation by sex. The sex ratio index is the summary measure of horizontal segregation used in the Department of Employment studies of gender segregation in the British occupational structure. The paper argues that the sex ratio index has undesirable properties as a summary measure of occupational segregation by sex. Consequently, it is not convincing as a…
The Analysis of Occupational Gender Segregation over Time and Place: Considerations of Measurement and Some New Evidence
Despite the importance of occupational segregation as an area of investigation concerned with understanding women's employment status, pay levels, and promotional prospects during the last 20 years, there has been relatively little attention paid to the problems of trying to measure segregation levels in quantitative data. This paper argues that there are serious measurement problems which it illustrates by showing that two of the principal indic…
A Reply to Lampard
A Reply to Lampard
Two important issues concerning the measurement of segregation are raised by Richard Lampard. He shows the relationship between the Gini coefficient (G) and the marginal matching measure (MM), and he suggests that G may have a particular advantage as a measure of segregation in that it retains more information than MM. It is worth developing these points further, and seeing whether G really does have an advantage. We shall demonstrate that MM ret…
A Reply to Watts
A Reply to Watts
Gender, the Professions, and Employment Citizenship
(1994). Gender, the Professions, and Employment Citizenship. International Journal of Sociology: Vol. 24, Work and Welfare in a Changing Europe Part I: Transformation of the European Societies, pp. 43-66
Gender Inequality in the Labour Market: Occupational Concentration and Segregation
This user-friendly manual, which can be used for self-learning or as a teaching tool, guides readers through all stages in producing data on occupational concentration and segregation. It clarifies concepts and measures, discusses quality and availability of information, and reviews various methodological tools, using well-known statistical software packages
Paradise Paved? Reflections on the Fate of Social Citizenship in Canada
The aim of this paper is to assess the potential of the concept of social citizenship for articulating progressive policy development in Canada. I argue that the revisioning of social citizenship is hampered by a recent notion that it is part of the superseded welfare policy paradigm of the past. Many analysts characterize a shift in the objectives of Canadian social policy as a move away from a 'golden age' policy paradigm, which emphasized the …
Gender, Diversity And The Shaping Of Public Policy: Recent Aspects Of The Canadian Experience
Separately Together: Working Reflexively as a Team
Discussions of reflexivity tend to ignore issues of practice, and those addressing practice are likely to presume a sole researcher. In this paper, we respond to the need for attention to reflexive practice in qualitative research teams. Drawing on our experience of working ‘separately together’, we identify reflexivity as an embedded feature of team-based research. We discuss how reflexivity can be used as a collective interpretive resource in t…
Flows, Eddies, Swamps and Whirlpools: Inequality and the Experience of Work Change
The main concern of this paper is how inequalities are implicated in the capacity individuals have to deal with changes in their work. The ability to deal with change - to seek it out, go with it, benefit from it - is a key aspect of neo-liberal discourse on the contemporary economy. Yet, there is little recognition within this discourse of the different capacities individuals have to initiate or respond to work change. This paper draws attention…
Urban Contestation in a Feminist Register
Approaches to urban contestation that challenge the dichotomy between institutionalization and opposition, and understand contestation as including engagement, are explored. The emphasis is on how recent forms of feminist analysis and critical scholarship open up a conceptual terrain for such thinking, and the discussion is grounded using further details of City for All Women Initiative/Initiative: une ville pour toutes les femmes (CAWI-IVTF), wh…
This is how I want to live my life”: An Experiment in Prefigurative Feminist Organizing for a More Equitable and Inclusive City
This paper aims to think differently about possibilities for feminist organizing in cities. We use a current experiment with city‐based feminist organizing to explore how it can be possible to work with the local state while at the same time challenging and disrupting understandings and practices that marginalize the diversity of women's needs, contributions and concerns. Trying to work “inside” the local state while maintaining an “outside” crit…
Intersectionality and quantitative methods: Assessing regression from a feminist perspective
This article examines the use of quantitative methods to advance feminist-inspired understandings of intersectionality. We acknowledge a range of conflicting opinions about the suitability of current quantitative techniques. To contribute to this debate, we assess the conceptualizations of intersectionality embedded in the most common approach to quantitative analysis, multiple regression. We identify three features of intersectional analysis hig…
Committing Sociology: Methodological and Epistemological Reflections Introduction
Teaching, Supervising, and Supporting PhD Students: Identifying Issues, Addressing Challenges, Sharing Strategies
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