Occupational Prestige and Gender-Occupational Segregation

Inmaculada García-Mainar, Victor Montuenga () and Guillermo García-Martín
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Inmaculada García-Mainar: University of Zaragoza, Spain
Guillermo García-Martín: University of Zaragoza, Spain
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Work, Employment & Society, 2018, vol. 32, issue 2, 348-367

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: gender differences; gender-occupational segregation; occupational prestige; Spain (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1177/0950017017730528

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