Engineering culture and the reproduction of sex segregation
Men and women tend to work in different jobs. This tendency, called occupational sex segregation, is a primary cause of the gender pay gap. A recent McKinsey study finds that reducing occupational sex segregation could contribute $2 Trillion to the U.S. economy.
Despite advances toward equality in other areas, occupational sex segregation has remained essentially unchanged over the last quarter century. What keeps some jobs dominated by men and others by women?
...Carroll Seron is Professor in the Department of Criminology, Law & Society at the University of California, Irvine. Susan Silbey is Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Erin Cech is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Michigan. Brian Rubineau is Associate Professor of Management at Ï㽶ÊÓƵ.
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