The Glass Escalator: Hidden Advantages for Men in the "Female" Professions
- 1 August 1992
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Social Problems
- Vol. 39 (3) , 253-267
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3096961
Abstract
This paper addresses men's underrepresentation in four predominantly female professions: nursing, elementary school teaching, librarianship, and sociKeywords
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