Across the Great Divide: The Entry of Men into “Women's Jobs”

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Feminist scholarship has taken the concept of the sexual division of labor to be a central category in the understanding of gender relations and of power disparities between women and men. A now weighty body of research, carried out by sociologists, historians, and anthropologists, has uncovered the processes by which social tasks become sex-typed (assigned as work suitable either for men or for women) and the ways in which sex-typing and the segregation of women and men in employment are maintained. These studies have revealed not only how variable and diverse the sexual division of labor has been between different societies, cultures, and epochs, ...

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