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Title: Revolving Doors: Sex Segregation and Women's Careers
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Jacobs, Jerry A. |
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Revolving Doors: Sex Segregation and Women's Careers Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1989 Cohort(s): Mature Women Publisher: Stanford University Press Keyword(s): Career Patterns; Comparable Worth; Life Cycle Research; Mobility; Occupational Choice; Occupational Segregation; Occupations, Female; Occupations, Non-Traditional; Women; Work Histories Using large national samples of women studied over time to assess stability and change in the sex typing of career aspirations, college majors, and occupations, the author attempts to determine at what point during the life cycle women are tracked into women's jobs. His findings indicate remarkable rates of mobility between male-dominated, sex-neutral, and female- dominated fields on the part of individual women. Does this mobility imply the existence of equal opportunity for women? The evidence suggests the contrary, because, while individual mobility is common, change in the structure of sex segregation is slow. The author first places sex segregation in a historical and comparative context and critically assesses theories of segregation. He then develops a theory of sex segregation that stresses the enduring operation of social control processes that constrain women's career opportunities throughout the life cycle. Later chapters consider aspirations, education, and careers. The discussion of women's careers includes a review of the literature on harassment as well as case studies of sex segregation within the legal and medical professions. A chapter on reconciling economic and sociological perspectives on discrimination is followed by the conclusion which discusses comparable worth and other possible remedies. |
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Jacobs, Jerry A. Revolving Doors: Sex Segregation and Women's Careers. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1989. |