La segregación ocupacional por sexo a examen Características personales, de los puestos y de las empresas asociadas a las ocupaciones masculinas y femeninas (Sex Segregation of Occupations under Examination Individual, Job and Business Characteristics Associated with Male and Female Occupations)

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ID4125375
AutoresMarta Ibáñez Pascual (0000-0001-5185-7467, autor correspondente)
Ano2008
Fascículo123
Páginas87
Data de publicação2008-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoRevista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0210-5233 • E-ISSN: 1988-5903
EditoraJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/40184894
OpenAlexW2328523244
IdiomaES
Citações recebidas12

Today, the segregation of occupations according to sex is an invisible frontier that structures the production system (61% of all workers find themselves in occupations that are either predominantly male or predominantly female). Our main purpose in analysing occupational segregation is to understand whether this separation implies differences in opportunities and/or labour rewards. In order to carry out this study, first the very phenomenon of occupational segregation is described and quantified with the help of the 2001 Census (to avoid sample error, something which might occur if we work with a very disaggregated three digit National Occupational Code, CNO94). Then, through multinomial logit regression and 1 La autora desea dar las gracias tanto a los evaluadores externos como a la ponencia del Consejo de Redaccion de la Revista. Sus indicaciones me han permitido mejorar la estructura de la informacion y la claridad expositiva del texto. This content downloaded from 207.46.13.25 on Mon, 12 Sep 2016 04:35:07 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms MARTA IBANEZ PASCUAL Encuesta de Estructuras Salariales (EES), se estudian las caracteristicas personales, de los puestos de trabajo y de las empresas asociadas a las ocupaciones segregadas. Los resultados senalan tanto la importancia cuantitativa del fenomeno como su intima relacion con los estereotipos de genero. Ademas, aparecen caracteristicas de las ocupaciones femeninas que ponen en duda la teoria del capital humano y matizan algunas suposiciones de la teoria de los mercados segmentados. using the Labour Force Survey (EPA) and the Survey on Salary Structures (EES), personal characteristics, jobs and the businesses associated with segregated occupations are studied. The results demonstrate both the quantitative importance of the phenomenon and its ciose relationship with gender stereotypes. Furthermore, some characteristics of female occupations that cali the theory of human capital into question and clarify some assumptions of the theory of labour market segmentation, emerge. Marta Ibanez Pascual Doctora en Sociologia por la Universidad de Oviedo. Actualmente es Profesora Titular de Sociologia en el Departamento de Economia Aplicada de la misma Universidad. She gained her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Oviedo, and is currently Associate Professor of Sociology in the Department of Applied Economics at the same university. Area de Sociologia. Departamento de Economia Aplicada. Facultad de Ciencias Economicas y Empresariales. Universidad de Oviedo. Campus del Cristo, s/n. 33006 Oviedo. Spain

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