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Title: Occupational sex composition and the relative pay of managerial work

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2022

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DOI: 10.1080/03623319.2022.2049554

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Abstract: This article examines a pathway whereby occupational sex composition widens gender gap in pay, asking how differently gender tokens-men and women in the numeric minority in opposite-sex occupations-derive monetary rewards from engaging in managerial tasks. Using a dataset of job tasks from the Princeton Data Improvement Initiative, I find that a large portion of the cross-occupation variation in wage returns to managerial work is attributed to the sex composition of occupations. Female tokens derive lower returns to managerial tasks compared to their non-token counterparts, whereas male tokens benefit from managerial work to a greater extent than when they are in mixed-sex or male-dominated occupations. The study concludes by discussing the gendered outcomes of engaging in managerial tasks, typically sex-typed as being "men's work," in gender-atypical work environments.

Url: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03623319.2022.2049554

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Authors: Cho, Sungchul

Periodical (Full): The Social Science Journal

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Pages: 1-16

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Gender, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Poverty and Welfare

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