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Gender Inequality: General Areas of Gender Segregation

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The chapter discusses six main areas of gender segregation—essentialist segregation, educational segregation, employment segregation, occupational segregation, hierarchical segregation and pay segregation. Various types of gender segregation coexist and are highly correlated, exhibiting the spillover effect. Therefore, this chapter details numerous elements of each type of segregation, such as biological differences between genders; supply and demand side of gender essentialism; gender roles socialisation; horizontal and vertical educational inequality; gendered division of labour; paid-work segregation; feminised sectors; tournament and queuing occupational theories; vertical competences’ presumptions; glaring of the gender gap at higher managerial levels; direct and indirect determinants of gender pay gap and institutionalised undervaluation of female work.

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    Nina Pološki Vokić, Alka Obadić & Dubravka Sinčić Ćorić

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Pološki Vokić, N., Obadić, A., Sinčić Ćorić, D. (2019). Gender Inequality: General Areas of Gender Segregation. In: Gender Equality in the Workplace. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18861-0_2

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