Changing Career Trajectories of Women and Men Across Time

(2012) - Erzsebet Bukodi, Shirley Dex, Heather Joshi

Journal: Gendered Lives
Link:: http://www.elgaronline.com/view/9781849806268.00009.xml
DOI:: 10.4337/9781849806275.00009
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Tags:: #paper #NCDS #Gender #SocialClass #Transition #school-to-work
Cite Key:: [@Bukodi2012b]

Abstract

As we know from cross-sectional snapshots and their time trends, women’s and men’s labour market behaviours have grown closer together as women have participated increasingly in paid work. From the mid twentieth century onwards, women have increasingly moved out of the private sphere of the home, into the public sphere previously occupied mainly by men assisted by their large increases in educational qualifications (see Chapter 1). Over the same period, men’s employment participation rates have declined, largely linked to sectoral changes and the decline of occupations in the manufacturing sector. What is less well documented is the extent to which women’s or men’s career trajectories have changed, and whether these also have grown closer over time. Career trajectories are the longitudinal and more dynamic elements of working lives that this book is concerned with. It is important to examine them to see whether men and women are still on gendered pathways as they go through their working lives, a task that is implicitly a comparison across generations and across time.

Notes

“women’s and men’s labour market behaviours have grown closer together as women have participated increasingly in paid work.” (Bukodi et al., 2012, p. 1)