The Evolution of Gender Segregation over the Life Course. Issue 5 (October 2018)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- The Evolution of Gender Segregation over the Life Course. Issue 5 (October 2018)
- Main Title:
- The Evolution of Gender Segregation over the Life Course
- Authors:
- Guinea-Martin, Daniel
Mora, Ricardo
Ruiz-Castillo, Javier - Abstract:
- We propose a measure of gender segregation over the life course that includes differences between women and men in occupational allocation, degree of time involvement in paid work, and their participation in different forms of economic activity and inactivity, such as paid work, homemaking, and retirement. We pool 21 Labour Force Surveys for the United Kingdom to measure, compare, and add up these various forms of segregation—occupational, time-related, and economic—from 1993 to 2013 ( n = 1, 815, 482). The analysis relies on the Strong Group Decomposability property of the Mutual Information index. There are four main findings. First, the marketplace is the major contributor to gender segregation. Second, over the life course, the evolution of gender segregation parallels the inverted U -shaped pattern of the employment rate. Third, a tradeoff between occupational and non-occupational sources of segregation defines three distinct stages in the life course: the prime childbearing years, the years when children are school age, and the retirement years. Fourth, to a large extent, women's heterogeneity drives age patterns in segregation.
- Is Part Of:
- American sociological review. Volume 83:Issue 5(2018)
- Journal:
- American sociological review
- Issue:
- Volume 83:Issue 5(2018)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 83, Issue 5 (2018)
- Year:
- 2018
- Volume:
- 83
- Issue:
- 5
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2018-0083-0005-0000
- Page Start:
- 983
- Page End:
- 1019
- Publication Date:
- 2018-10
- Subjects:
- economic activity and inactivity -- gender -- homemaking -- life course -- Mutual Information index -- occupations -- part-time -- retirement -- segregation
Sociology -- Periodicals
Social history -- Periodicals
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- http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/1480848.html ↗
http://asr.sagepub.com ↗
http://www.jstor.org/journals/00031224.html ↗
http://www.sagepublications.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1177/0003122418794503 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0003-1224
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