{"id":18379,"date":"2010-01-09T10:41:37","date_gmt":"2010-01-09T15:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=18379"},"modified":"2017-09-16T21:45:25","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T02:45:25","slug":"socialization-and-gendered-job-segregation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/01\/09\/socialization-and-gendered-job-segregation\/","title":{"rendered":"Socialization and Gendered Job Segregation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Caroline P. sent in this stunning example of gendered socialization,\u00a0gendered\u00a0job segregation, and the social construction of skill.\u00a0 Notice that the two photos below show an &#8220;electronic medical set&#8221; for a <a href=\"http:\/\/img109.imageshack.us\/i\/spa0269h.jpg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">doctor<\/a> and a <a href=\"http:\/\/img23.imageshack.us\/img23\/121\/spa0268v.jpg\" target=\"_self\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\">nurse<\/a>, with a photo of a boy and a girl, respectively.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18386\" title=\"spa0269h\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/12\/spa0269h1.jpg\" alt=\"spa0269h\" width=\"566\" height=\"523\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18385\" title=\"spa0268v\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/12\/spa0268v1.jpg\" alt=\"spa0268v\" width=\"564\" height=\"514\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Okay, so the jobs are gendered.\u00a0 But more than that, notice that the sets contain essentially the same toys: a stethescope, pill bottle, syringe, thermometer, mirror, hot water bottle, clipboard, blood pressure thingy, and whatever that is in the bottom right corner.<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s more than just gendered jobs, it&#8217;s\u00a0an acknowledgement that when boys and girls do the same job, <em>it gets called something different<\/em> and, more,\u00a0better compensated when men do it.\u00a0 We see this with other, real jobs that get split into gendered categories <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/11\/14\/job-segregation-as-a-cause-of-the-wage-gap-between-men-and-women\/\" target=\"_self\">like janitor\/maid<\/a>.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caroline P. sent in this stunning example of gendered socialization,\u00a0gendered\u00a0job segregation, and the social construction of skill.\u00a0 Notice that the two photos below show an &#8220;electronic medical set&#8221; for a doctor and a nurse, with a photo of a boy and a girl, respectively. Okay, so the jobs are gendered.\u00a0 But more than that, notice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55,2099,2091,2100,252,1711,76],"class_list":["post-18379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gender","tag-gender-childrenyouth","tag-gender-healthmedicine","tag-gender-work","tag-healthmedicine","tag-toysgames","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18379"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71231,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18379\/revisions\/71231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}