Sex Segregation in the Workplace Trends, Explanations, Remedies (1984) / Chapter Skim
Currently Skimming:
5 Commentary
5 Commentary
Pages 87-90
The Chapter Skim interface presents what we've algorithmically identified as the most significant single chunk of text within every page in the chapter.
Select key terms on the right to highlight them within pages of the chapter.
From page 87... ...
Thus, over a relatively short period of time, only about 15 to 30 percent of job changers failed to cross the sex-typed boundary. These figures indicate a movement of individuals across segregated occupations that is not immediately obvious given the level and constancy of segregation indices for the aggregate distribution.
|
From page 88... ...
of segregation, Bielby and Baron's unique firmlevel focus contributes immensely to a better understanding of the overall downward trend in segregation that Beller documents. Beller attributes the decline primarily to equal employment opportunity legislation and enforcement activities, citing the enactment of Title VII and the Equal Rights Act early in the period under study.
|
From page 89... ...
are outside the scope of government intervention as typically conceived. If their analysis is correct, the greatest hope for future integration may lie not in the public policy domain but in the hands of workers themseIves, through either more enlightened collective bargaining or other mechanisms of workplace democracy.
|
From page 90... ...
More broadly, the difficulties Beller encountered in compiling a series of data on occupational segregation should alert us to the need for improved national statistical reporting systems that would enable us to monitor this critical indicator of sex equity. But prospects for better data at the national level are not encouraging, given the current political cTimate.
|
Key Terms
This material may be derived from roughly machine-read images, and so is provided only to facilitate research.
More
information on Chapter Skim is available.