Doing "Women's Work"
Men in Nontraditional Occupations
Edited by:
- Christine L. Williams - University of Texas-Austin, USA
September 1993 | 205 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
This book summarizes the state of our knowledge on the effects of men in women's professions - effects on the men, on their views of masculinity, on the occupations and on the women they work with. Do men get preferential treatment in these positions? Do they receive higher salaries? Or are they treated the same as their women colleagues? Through a series of statistical and demographic analyses, as well as case studies of men in professions such as teaching, secretarial work, care-giving and stripping, the contributors give a glimpse of the role of these men in bolstering or undermining the gendered assumptions of occupational sex segregation in the workplace.
Christine L Williams
Introduction
Harriet Bradley
Across the Great Divide
Paula England and Melissa S Herbert
The Pay of Men in `Female' Occupations
Jerry A Jacobs
Men in Female-Dominated Fields
L Susan Williams and Wayne J Villemez
Seekers and Finders
Kaisa Kauppinen-Toropainen and Johanna Lammi
Men in Female-Dominated Occupations
Jim Allan
Male Elementary Teachers
Rosemary Pringle
Male Secretaries
Jeffrey S Applegate and Lenard W Kaye
Male Elder Caregivers
Richard Tewksbury
Male Strippers