Employment Issues and Gender

Gender Segregation in Employment Contracts

This paper presents evidence on gender segregation in employment contracts in 15 EU countries, using micro data from the ECHPS. Women are over-represented in part-time jobs in all countries considered, but while in northern Europe such allocation roughly reflects women’s preferences and their need to combine work with child care, in southern Europe part-time jobs are often involuntary and provi...

Gender differences in occupational employment

The differences in employment distributions of women and men within occupations have been, and continue to be, a prominent feature of the labor market. Past research has indicated a high degree of difference that remained fairly constant from the early 1900s up until about 1970. The 1970s were a watershed period in occupational desegregation, as indicated by significant declines in measures of ...

Gender, social class, and women's employment.

People in low-power positions, whether due to gender or class, tend to exhibit other-oriented rather than self-oriented behavior. Women's experiences at work and at home are shaped by social class, heightening identification with gender for relatively upper class women and identification with class for relatively lower class women, potentially mitigating, or even reversing, class-based differen...

Supported Employment : Critical Issues and New Directions

This paper chronicles the background, history, and philosophy associated with supported employment. The emphasis has been on growth of participation by people with disabilities into competitive employment for the first time. In addition to this important background, the concept of work supports is introduced. A taxonomy of government supports, business supports, and consumer supports is present...

Physical Anthropology and Gender Issues