Gender and Jobs: Sex Segregation of Occupations in the WorldInternational Labour Organization, 1998 - 444 páginas This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the levels and recent changes in the sex segregation of occupations. It is based on a unique new ILO data set which contains detailed occupational data from 41 countries or territories from all regions of the world. As shown by new evidence presented here, well over half of all non-agricultural workers in the sample countries and areas work in an occupation where one sex dominates to such an extent that at least 80 per cent of workers are either men or women. This negatively affects economic efficiency and labour market flexibility as well as perpetuating and reinforcing gender stereotypes in society. A number of findings will surprise readers, such as the higher level of occupational segregation in Scandinavia as compared to other industrialized countries, the lower level of occupational segregation in Asia as compared to Europe, the recent decreases in segregation in only some parts of the world, and the truly restricted and sex-stereotyped choice of occupations open to the world's women. |
Índice
CONTENTS | 3 |
Theories and explanations for occupational segregation by | 14 |
Review of crossnational studies of occupational segregation by | 38 |
Description of study data and occupational segregation statistics | 51 |
Measuring occupational segregation | 68 |
Sensitivity of segregation statistics to degree of disaggregation | 95 |
1 International standard classification of occupations | 130 |
Description of study regions | 138 |
Occupations typically held by men and women | 250 |
Patterns in occupational segregation by sex based on combinations | 297 |
1 Extent to which genderdominated occupations | 307 |
Occupational segregation by sex around the worldchanges in | 315 |
Recent changes in the extent to which male and female nonagricultural | 355 |
Recent changes in the feminization of 17 important male and female | 373 |
Summary and conclusion | 403 |
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Occupational segregation around the worldThe present situation | 153 |
1 Estimation of adjusted ID i e ID75 | 202 |
1 Estimation of adjusting national values to 75 | 235 |
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Términos y frases comunes
80 per cent analysis Angola approximately Asia/Pacific Average unweighted Bahrain cent female change in ID75 Chapter China clerical compared Costa Rica countries and areas countries or areas cross-national Cyprus decrease digit disaggregation East and North elsewhere classified example FDOM female share female-concentrated female-dominated occupations feminization Fiji Finland gender gender-dominated occupations Ghana Haiti Hong Kong ID values ID75 values IDHALF increase indicates inequality statistics Japan Kuwait labour force participation labour market latest available level of occupational Luxembourg Mauritius MDOM Middle East national occupational classification national values Netherlands Netherlands Antilles non-ag non-agricultural labour force non-agricultural occupations North Africa Norway Notes number of occupations occupational classification occupational data occupational segregation OECD countries OECD subregions percentage female percentage points PFEM related workers relatively low segregation by sex Senegal sex segregation study countries study data Sweden TDOM three-digit data tion Transition Economies Tunisia two-digit data unweighted averages women workers
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