Trends in Occupational Mobility

The Gender Gap in Sweden

Bibliographic Data

ID2302673
AuthorsLucienne Portocarero (Swedish Institute for Social Research, University of Stockholm, corresponding author)
Year1989
Volume32
Issue4
Pages359-374
Publication date1989-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueActa Sociologica (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0001-6993 • E-ISSN: 1502-3869
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/000169938903200403
OpenAlexW1991661539
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited14

This paper is an attempt to develop earlier work on the intergenerational occupational mobility of men and women in order to bring gender variation into focus. Against the background of the changing structure of occupations, various measures, often used in mobility studies to estimate class inequality, are applied to estimate gender inequality in the Swedish labour market over a thirteen-year period in which one of the major features of social change may well be the extension of dependence on gainful employment to women of all social strata Results show a narrowing, but by no means eliminated, gender gap in certain broad aspects of occupational opportunities in the younger cohort of the adult labour force. However, they also show that age is a crucial variable when the actual occupational attainment and thus potential for self-sufficiency of women are compared to that of men with similar social background

Cohort · Demographic economics · Economics · Gainful employment · Inequality · Job satisfaction · Labour economics · Occupational mobility · Occupational prestige · Occupational segregation · Population · Social class · Social inequality · Social mobility · Social science · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Demography · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies · Medicine · Psychology · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Social Psychology · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics

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