Essays about: "Occupational Segregation."

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1. 1. Female risk-assessment and career path : -A qualitative study of the role of risk, ontological security, and immanence in law students’ future occupational choices

   University essay from Örebro universitet/Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap

   Author : Jennifer Lindberg Jonsson; [2022]
   Keywords : Occupational gender segregation; Risk-taking; Law students; Risk-assessment; Immanence;

   Abstract : Gender and risk are both components of our everyday life, put in a context of occupational segregation, they become increasingly interesting. Does risk-assessment and ontological security affect occupational choices and does those aspects differ between the genders? These are some of the questions that this study aims to examine. READ MORE

3. 2. Is the Future of the Dental Profession and the Dental ‘Glass Clog’ Feminine?

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Sarah Grenestedt; Esther Donk; [2021]
   Keywords : Feminization; Occupational Sex Segregation; Inclusion-Exclusion; Occupational Gender Stereotypes; Doing Gender; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : Purpose This research focuses on the phenomenon of knowledge-intensive professions undergoing rapid feminization and transforming into a female-dominated profession. To create a deeper understanding of the phenomenon, the purpose of this research is to make sense of how dental students in a male-dominated profession that changes into a female-dominated profession perceive gender stereotypes and the ongoing feminization. READ MORE

4. 3. The Right Man for the Job

   University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för företagande och ledning

   Author : Ebba Alm; Cecilia Bill; [2020]
   Keywords : Gender; Investment Banking; Occupational Segregation; Social Identity Theory; Stereotype Threat;

   Abstract : The finance industry has traditionally been male-dominated, and despite recent efforts to attract more female applicants, the gender segregation still prevails. The investment banking industry, in particular, is notoriously male-dominated. READ MORE

5. 4. Mind The Gap! Pay, Gender, and Ethnicity in the United Kingdom

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Hannah Leadbetter; [2020]
   Keywords : Pay gaps gender ethnicity occupational segregation double disadvantage; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : Despite many years of progress towards closing the gender pay gap and achieving racial equality, women from ethnic minority groups in the United Kingdom earn less compared to their male counterparts and to the population average. The extent of channelling into certain areas of occupation and employment are a prominent feature of the employment of minority groups in the UK and is a key mechanism investigated in this study. READ MORE

6. 5. The gender wage gap in Italy : Study on the changes in the wage gap during the period of financial crisis

   University essay from Jönköping University/Internationella Handelshögskolan

   Author : Boguslawa Aleksandra Stec; Raneem Jisri; [2020]
   Keywords : gender wage gap; financial crisis; pay gap; Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition; Italy;

   Abstract : Everywhere around the world, whether in developing or developed countries, women earn less than men. This phenomenon is in no way new and it has been investigated for many years. Still, in today’s modern society, the wage gap does not appear to be closing. READ MORE