Occupational prestige and gender-occupational segregation

García Mainar, Inmaculada (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Montuenga Gómez, Victor Manuel (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; García Martín, Guillermo

Resumen: The purpose of this article is to determine whether there is a relationship between the proportion of women working in an occupation and the prestige assigned to that occupation. Based on a representative sample of Spanish employees from the Spanish Quality of Working Life Survey, pooled-sample data (2007–2010) are used to show that occupations with larger shares of women present lower prestige, controlling for a set of objective individual and work-related variables, and self-assessed indicators of working conditions. However, the results obtained do not support the devaluation theory since an inverted-U relationship between female share and occupational prestige is observed. This conclusion holds even after passing a battery of robustness checks.

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.1177/0950017017730528

Año: 2018

Publicado en: WORK EMPLOYMENT AND SOCIETY 32, 2 (2018), 348-367
ISSN: 0950-0170

Factor impacto JCR: 2.364 (2018)

Categ. JCR: ECONOMICS rank: 72 / 363 = 0.198 (2018) - Q1 - T1
Categ. JCR: SOCIOLOGY rank: 26 / 148 = 0.176 (2018) - Q1 - T1
Categ. JCR: INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR rank: 7 / 27 = 0.259 (2018) - Q2 - T1

Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 1.644 - Accounting (Q1) - Sociology and Political Science (Q1) - Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management (Q1) - Economics and Econometrics (Q1)

Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/S13

Tipo y forma: Article (PostPrint)

Área (Departamento): Área Fund. Análisis Económico (Dpto. Análisis Económico)