The Segregation Premium: How Gender Shapes the Symbolic Valuation Process of Occupational Prestige Judgments.
Symbolic valuation is an important but overlooked aspect of gendered processes of inequality in the occupation structure. Prior work has largely focused on the material valuation of gendered work, such as how much predominantly-female versus predominantly-male occupations pay. Less research has exam...
| Published in: | Social Forces Vol. 99; no. 1; pp. 31 - 59 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Sep2020
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