Indulging Our Gendered Selves? Sex Segregation by Field of Study in 44 Countries1

By Maria Charles, K. Bradley. American Journal of Sociology, 2009

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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Business as Plan B (2015, background): “Such a belief may prove particularly durable in light of work suggesting that gender-essentialist ideology and expression often persist in the face of egalitarian trends (Charles and Bradley, 2009).”
Pipeline Dreams: Occupational Plans and Gender Differences in STEM Major Persistence and Completion (2020, background): “…about women in STEM perpetuate gendered occupational plans, gendered occupational plans perpetuate gender segregation in educational and occupational outcomes, and gender segregation in outcomes legitimates cultural beliefs about women in STEM (Charles and Bradley 2009; Thébaud and Charles 2018).”
Why do occupations dominated by women pay less? How ‘female-typical’ work tasks and working-time arrangements affect the gender wage gap among higher education graduates (2016, background): “In contrast, cultural explanations point out the importance of socially shared stereotypes about male and female traits and skills (Charles and Bradley, 2009), which are internalized during childhood and reproduced by everyday interactions between (adult) women and men (Ridgeway, 1997).”
A World of Difference: International Trends in Women's Economic Status (2011, background): “Country codes: AU, Australia; AT, Austria; BE, Belgium; BG, Bulgaria; CA, Canada; CL, Chile; CO, Colombia; CY, Cyprus; CZ, Czech Republic; DK, Denmark; FI, Finland; FR, France; DE, Germany; GR, Greece; HK, Hong Kong; HU, Hungary; ID, Indonesia; IR, Iran; IE, Ireland; IL, Israel; IT, Italy; JP, Japan”
The Unexpected Entry and Exodus of Women in Computing and HCI in India (2018, background): “As noted by some work in cross-cultural sociology, occupational gender disparities are greater in gender-equal countries for reasons linked to an indulging of essentialist stereotypes [11].”
The Self-Expressive Edge of Occupational Sex Segregation1 (2013, background): “Gender scholars have recently suggested that selfexpressive career decisions are relevant to sex segregation ðe.g., Charles and Bradley 2009; England 2010; Cotter et al. 2011Þ, but the contexts and consequences of a self-expressive edge of sex segregation have not been given sufficient theoretical…”
Gendered study choice: a literature review. A review of theory and research into the unequal representation of male and female students in mathematics, science, and technology (2013, background): “On the one hand, it is clear that “[modern] individuals are deeply invested in beliefs about gender difference, and [that] these are embedded in virtually all organizational structures and interactional contexts, including labour market and educational systems” (Charles & Bradley, 2009, p. 927).”
Who likes math where? Gender differences in eighth-graders’ attitudes around the world (2014, methodology): “In brief, the argument is that educational and occupational aspirations will be more strongly influenced by cultural gender beliefs in highly affluent societal contexts (Charles, 2011b; Charles & Bradley, 2002, 2009).”