Gender remains a key predictor of vocational choice. The present thesis aimed to investigate three social psychological barriers to nontraditional career choice. Study Ӏ showed that threats to gender identity may lead to more gender-typical occupational preferences among adolescents. The results suggested a unique effect of gender identity threat, as a control threat did not have the same effec...

We use employment histories from the Survey of Stratification and Migration Dynamics in Russia (total N=7167) to examine how the role of personal networks in the Russian labor market evolved from 1985 through 2001 and how networks relate to patterns of social stratification in Russia. Because this period saw dramatic institutional changes associated with market transition, it offers a unique op...

Stimulated by the recent debate on gender roles and men’s fertility behaviour (Puur et al. 2008; Westoff and Higgins 2009; Goldscheider, Oláh and Puur 2010), we present evidence from Finland as a country well into the second phase of the so-called gender revolution. We examine how gender role attitudes relate to childbearing intentions at the onset of family life, intentions to have many (3 or ...

The current study utilized longitudinal, self-report data from a sample of 109 dual-earner, working-class couples and their 6-year-old children living in the northeastern United States. Research questions addressed the roles of parents' gender ideology and gendered behaviors in predicting children's development of gender-role attitudes. It was hypothesized that parents' behavior would be more i...

The study analyses the gender pay gap in private-sector management positions in Germany based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) for the years 20012008. It focuses in particular on gender segregation in the labor market, that is, on the unequal distribution of women and men across different occupations and on the effects of this inequality on earnings levels and gender wa...

A category may be understood as a group of correlated features or attributes which are perceived as associated with one another (Younger & Cohen, 1986). Gender roles are categories of social information in which certain characteristics are perceived to be more strongly associated with a particular social group (Hamilton, 1981). The category “masculine items” might be conceptualized as articles ...

This study examines the link between health and housework among older couples. For those out of the paid labor force, many of the standard arguments about relative resources and time availability no longer hold. Women spend more time on domestic tasks than men at any age; however, it is unclear how health shapes the household division of labor based on gender among older adults. This study exam...

The study analyses the gender pay gap in private-sector management positions in Germany based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) for the years 20012008. It focuses in particular on gender segregation in the labor market, that is, on the unequal distribution of women and men across different occupations and on the effects of this inequality on earnings levels and gender wa...

There is no neat division between the economic and domestic. Not only are they connected, but their meaning, structure, value decidedly conditioned by one another. Yet, since it capitalism’s nature to conceal exploitation, domesticity becomes outwardly coded as domain of tradition, despite productive forces market shaping through process social reproduction. Lise Vogel asks how worker produced ...