By Stephanie Steinmetz
This examine untangles the advanced interaction of person and contextual components shaping cross-national ameliorations in horizontal and vertical occupational intercourse segregation. It relates the person elements affecting occupational judgements to the wider social and monetary context inside a given society. Following this technique, Stephanie Steinmetz offers a finished assessment of the improvement and explanations of cross-national transformations in occupational intercourse segregation. She bargains insights into the site of 21 european individuals States, rather of former CCE international locations. in keeping with complicated multi-level types, the examine exhibits that institutional components, reminiscent of the association of academic structures, post-industrial advancements, social regulations, and the nationwide ‘gender culture’, play an important function in shaping intercourse segregation approaches except person elements. the writer clarifies specific set of institutional elements is appropriate to every of the 2 dimensions of occupational intercourse segregation and that those components function in numerous instructions: a few decrease horizontal segregation whereas even as annoying the vertical element. eventually, the learn assesses the empirical findings from a political viewpoint by way of addressing the longer term contextual demanding situations of ecu Member States looking to reach larger gender equality at the labour market.
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This shift enhances women’s representation in services because affected occupations often 32 The concept refers to Thurow’s (1969) conceptualisation of the labour market as a labour queue in which employers rank prospective employees. 33 This is also confirmed by Swedish studies showing that the level of segregation has declined in spite of the dramatic increase in female labour force participation (Jonung 1998, Nermo 1999). Explaining occupational sex segregation 47 involve tasks that are functionally and symbolically similar to women’s traditional female domestic activities (Bell 1973, Boje and Nielsen 1993, Melkas and Anker 1997).
Although the original data includes information on 26 EU Member States, the analysis is limited to 21(23) countries. The selected countries provide detailed information on educational, employment and basic demographic variables as well as information on relevant macro indicators. Cyprus and Norway are excluded from the sample, while Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom are included (the Czech Republic and Luxembourg are only included in the descriptive part of the study; they are excluded from the empirical analyses because of missing data on core variables).
1997). In this chapter, the main theoretical approaches are introduced and discussed. In particular, their potential for explaining the horizontal and vertical dimension of occupational sex segregation and cross-national variations will be assessed. In addition, the chapter devotes attention to the central role of educational sex segregation and its translation into the labour market which has rarely been done. Finally, an integrative model of occupational sex segregation will be developed. Referring to underlying micro- and macro-mechanisms, and more importantly to their interrelation, it will be clarified how horizontal and vertical segregation arises, how different factors and their interaction influence this development, and how cross-national differences evolve.