{"id":56041,"date":"2013-08-09T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T17:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=56041"},"modified":"2013-08-02T03:47:37","modified_gmt":"2013-08-02T08:47:37","slug":"the-role-of-employer-selection-in-gendered-job-segregation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2013\/08\/09\/the-role-of-employer-selection-in-gendered-job-segregation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Role of Employer Selection in Gendered Job Segregation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gender job segregation is the\u00a0practice of filling certain occupations with mostly male or mostly female workers. \u00a0Today 40% of\u00a0women work in jobs that are 3\/4ths female or more and 45% of men work in jobs that are more than 3\/4ths male (source<\/a>). \u00a0Job segregation is the main cause of the wage gap between men and women because jobs that employ women pay somewhere between 5% and 19% less than ones that employ men (source<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Job segregation decreased during the decades following the women’s movement, but progress towards integration stalled out in the ’90s<\/a> and hasn’t budged since. \u00a0There are lots of reasons why job segregation why gender persists; one of them is recruitment and selection. \u00a0That is, employers sometimes have preferences for whether a man or woman is suited for a job. \u00a0Usually these preferences match historical trends\/stereotypes.<\/p>\n

Philip Cohen offered an example of this over at The Atlantic<\/a>. \u00a0It’s a photograph of a recruitment banner for a window replacement company that he came across in the University of Maryland Student Union. \u00a0The banner features men as representatives of employees who do sales and installation, but a female in the role of customer support.<\/p>\n

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Cohen also observed the behavior of the white male job recruiters accompanying the banner. \u00a0\u00a0He writes:<\/p>\n

In 20 minutes, as dozens of people walked by, the recruiters approached 18 men and 0 women, asking them, “You guys looking for a job?” (or, in the case of a black man, “Hey man, you looking for a job?”).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is one way that jobs remain segregated by gender. We have an idea of who is suited for what jobs, we illustrate that supposed “fit” in imagery, and employers actively recruit men into “male jobs” and women into “female jobs.” \u00a0Doing so doesn’t just slot men and women into different jobs, but into different and unequal ones<\/a>.<\/p>\n

See also: boys learn to play doctor, girls learn to play nurse<\/a>,\u00a0fortune teller tells you your gendered occupational future<\/a>, and who does what for airlines<\/a>.<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gender job segregation is the\u00a0practice of filling certain occupations with mostly male or mostly female workers. \u00a0Today 40% of\u00a0women work in jobs that are 3\/4ths female or more and 45% of men work in jobs that are more than 3\/4ths male (source). \u00a0Job segregation is the main cause of the wage gap between men and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":56568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,55,2098,2100,283,76],"class_list":["post-56041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-class","tag-gender","tag-gender-prejudicediscrimination","tag-gender-work","tag-prejudicediscrimination","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/08\/Screenshot_15.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56041","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=56041"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56564,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56041\/revisions\/56564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}