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dc.contributor.authorDockery, Alfred Michael
dc.contributor.authorBuchler, Sandra
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T13:35:33Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T13:35:33Z
dc.date.created2016-09-22T12:28:53Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier.citationDockery, A.M. and Buchler, S. 2016. Occupational segregation and women's job satisfaction, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre Working Paper Series, Curtin University of Technology, John Curtin Institute of Public Policy (JCIPP).
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/33187
dc.description.abstract

Data on men and women’s job satisfaction conditional upon the degree of feminisation of their occupation are used to explore potential causes and implications of occupational segregation by gender in the Australian labour market. We find some evidence for the notion of ‘women’s work’ - that certain occupations are highly feminised because women prefer the type of work done in those occupations. However, this primarily applies to mothers, older women and wives and the results also offer strong support for the view that occupational segregation is generated by societal norms around the roles allocated to men and women. In particular, patterns in satisfaction with hours of work and with pay in highly feminised occupations are consistent with societal norms in which the work of married women and of mothers is seen as secondary to that of their male partner’s. In contrast to suggestions in some of the existing Australian literature, the results also clearly indicate that more highly feminised occupations are relatively poorly paid, other things held equal.

dc.publisherBCEB
dc.subjectjob satisfaction
dc.subjectgender
dc.subjectoccupational segregation
dc.titleOccupational segregation and women's job satisfaction
dc.typeWorking Paper
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curtin.departmentJohn Curtin Institute of Public Policy (JCIPP)
curtin.accessStatusOpen access


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