Occupational Profiles

Shirley Dex
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Shirley Dex: University of Keele

Chapter 3 in Women’s Occupational Mobility, 1987, pp 28-65 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract We can now begin to focus on the patterns of women’s occupations over time. How do women move between jobs over their lifetimes; if they do? As indicated earlier, most of the existing studies have examined women’s location in the occupational structure through cross-sectional information; that is using data on their current occupations. A cross-sectional picture of an occupational distribution will give an accurate picture of women’s positions if those positions never change. If women’s occupations change over their lifetime, however, the cross-sectional picture will not accurately reflect their lifetime occupational status. The occupational histories of women contained in the Women and Employment Survey (WES) provides the first extensive large scale British data through which to begin to tackle unanswered questions about the nature of women’s careers and occupational changes over their lifetime.1

Keywords: Unskilled Work; Work History; Occupational Choice; Occupational Mobility; Clerical Work (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1987
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-18572-6_3

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