Essential Work Is Gender Segregated: This Shapes the Gendered Representation of Essential Workers in Political Office.
Objective: To understand how gender structures the occupations of essential workers and which essential workers serve in political office. Methods: We first use population‐level data by gender and occupation to examine the gender segregation of occupations deemed essential. Using the population comp...
| Publicado en: | Social Science Quarterly (Wiley-Blackwell) Vol. 101; no. 5; pp. 1827 - 1834 |
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