Women in the British Sociological Labour Market, 1960-1995

Jennifer Platt

Sociological Research Online, 2000, vol. 4, issue 4, 127-138

Abstract: Women have been a much lower proportion of university teachers of sociology than of students in sociology in Britain, and have also been under-represented in the higher ranks of academia. This has often been treated as the effect of discrimination. However, a review of available data suggests that women's choices - however formed - have also played a role, and that changing historical circumstances have affected the demography of the discipline in ways which have had significant consequences for women (and men) independent of either choice or discrimination. The current pattern cannot be understood without its history, which reveals that much of the snapshot picture of the situation now follows from strata of recruitment laid down at earlier periods.

Keywords: Labour Market; Sociologists; Universities; Women's Employment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.5153/sro.346

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