Should I Stay or Should I Go? Gender Differences in Professional Employment

Kathrin Leuze, A. Rusconi
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Abstract

Occupational sex segregation is a persistent source of social inequalities. The increasing participation of women in tertiary education and rising female employment rates, however, have given hope that gender inequalities will decline as a result of growing female opportunities for high skill employment in the service sector, e.g. the professions. This paper asks whether such optimistic accounts are justified by comparing male and female professional career trajectories in Germany. Our main assumptions hold that, even today, strong gender differences continue to exist between public and private sector professions, which are further aggravated by different forms of family commitment. Overall, our analyses demonstrate that even among highly qualified men and women, important patterns of sex segregation are present. An initial horizontal segregation between public and private sectors brings about "equal, but different" career prospects, which in the phase of family formation turn into vertical segregation, promoting "different and therefore unequal" labor market chances.
我该走还是该留?专业就业中的性别差异
职业性别隔离是社会不平等的持久根源。然而,妇女越来越多地参加高等教育和妇女就业率的上升使人们希望,由于妇女在服务部门,例如专业领域获得高技能就业的机会越来越多,性别不平等现象将会减少。本文通过比较德国男性和女性的职业生涯轨迹,来质疑这种乐观的说法是否合理。我们的主要假设是,即使在今天,公共部门和私营部门的职业之间仍然存在着强烈的性别差异,而不同形式的家庭承诺进一步加剧了这种差异。总的来说,我们的分析表明,即使在高素质的男性和女性中,也存在重要的性别隔离模式。公共部门和私营部门之间最初的横向隔离带来了“平等但不同”的职业前景,在家庭形成阶段,这种隔离转变为纵向隔离,促进了“不同的,因此不平等的”劳动力市场机会。
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