Time Off as Economic Capital

Moving from a gender-segregated job, like secretary, to a more integrated position can be quite difficult, primarily because the disadvantages that most segregated jobs confer accumulate over time to make it increasingly unlikely that a woman who is unhappy in her job will ever be able to find another kind of work. What scholars of cumulative disadvantage have not been able to explain, however, are the women who successfully leave segregated jobs. In this study of women working in the gender-integrated occupation of furniture sales I use a Bourdieuian framework to analyze what aspects of their employment histories prompted and enabled some to move from gender-segregated work into gender-integrated work. Specifically, I analyze women's networks and their periods of time away from paid work as forms of capital that helped create the possibility that they could leave their segregated jobs. Focusing particularly on time off, I argue that the solution to cumulative disadvantage is not simply to address the disadvantages, but to stop the accumulation

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