Women's Jobs, Men's Jobs: Sex Segregation and Emotional Labor.
Job segregation—the tendency for men and women to work in different occupations—is often cited as the reason that women's wages lag men's. But this begs the question: What is it about women's jobs that causes them to pay less? We argue that emotional labor offers the missing link in the explanation....
| Publicado en: | Public Administration Review Vol. 64; no. 3; pp. 289 - 299 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
May/Jun2004
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