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Occupational Sex Composition and the Gendered Availability of Workplace Support

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This study examines how occupational sex segregation affects women’s and men’s perceptions of the availability of workplace support. Drawing on theories of gender and empirical studies of workplace tokenism, the author develops the concept of an occupational minority. Although the notion of tokenism was developed to describe processes at the level of the workplace, the author explores how being a minority at the occupational level affects workers. Using nationally representative data, she finds that in mixed-sex occupations, women report higher levels of workplace support than men; in male-dominated occupations, they perceive relatively low levels of support. Men, by contrast, perceive relatively high levels of workplace support in female-dominated occupations. That is, being a member of a numerical minority in one’s occupation is an advantage for men and a disadvantage for women.

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Series Title

Gender & Society

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: sage publisher., 2010

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Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

08912432

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Vol. 24 no. 2, April 2010.pp. 189-212

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Gender
Race
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Work/occupations

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