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Gender Segregation in the Workplace

Continuities and Discontinuities from Childhood to Adulthood

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Women, Work, and Health

Part of the book series: The Plenum Series on Stress and Coping ((SSSO))

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When we consider women in their role as members of the work force outside the home, two major phenomena command our attention: (1) occupations are segregated by gender to a remarkable degree and (2) women are much more likely than men to interrupt their out-of-home work careers in order to care for children. The second topic is considered in some depth in other chapters in this volume; this chapter will focus primarily on the central fact that working women are clustered mainly in one set of occupations, men mainly in others.

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  1. Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, 94305-2130, USA

    Eleanor E. Maccoby

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  1. Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm University, Stockholm, S-106 91, Sweden

    Marianne Frankenhaeuser  & Ulf Lundberg  & 

  2. Prevention Sciences Group, School od Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA

    Margaret Chesney

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Maccoby, E.E. (1991). Gender Segregation in the Workplace. In: Frankenhaeuser, M., Lundberg, U., Chesney, M. (eds) Women, Work, and Health. The Plenum Series on Stress and Coping. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3712-0_1

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