MEN'S ACCOMMODATIONS TO WOMEN ENTERING A NONTRADITIONAL OCCUPATION:
- 1 September 1989
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Gender & Society
- Vol. 3 (3) , 373-387
- https://doi.org/10.1177/089124389003003006
Abstract
This article examines problems that arise when women enter nontraditional blue-collar occupations. Despite job security, women's arrival in one such workplace generated strains by threatening assumptions of male supremacy. Previous research has examined women's modes of accommodation to male-dominated workplaces. In this case, men as well as women developed accommodative patterns that allowed them to accept women as co-workers without giving up their beliefs about male superiority.Keywords
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