Occupational Segregation and the Gender Wage Gap: A Job Half Done

By A. Hegewisch, H. Hartmann. 2014

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Excerpt] This paper begins by reviewing trends in occupational segregation during the past several decades, showing that after significant change during the 1980s and early 1990s, further progress in occupational integration has stalled across the board during the last decade for women and men with different levels of education, in different race/ethnic groups, and in different age cohorts. Just as there has been no progress in occupational integration during the 2000s, there has been no further progress towards equal pay, with the two trends showing an inverse relationship over time (as job segregation declined, equal pay increased). While this paper finds a clear wage penalty for work in predominantly female occupations, for both women and men, it also finds that this earnings penalty differs significantly between highly skilled and other occupations. The paper ends with a discussion of possible explanations of these findings and recommendations for policy change.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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The Simple Truth about the Gender Pay Gap. Fall 2018 Edition. (2018, background): “Occupational segregation also continues to affect some women more than others: Of all racial/ ethnic groups, Hispanic women and men are the least likely to work in the same jobs (Hegewisch & Hartmann, 2014).”