Two Tales of Cities: Revisiting Sex-Based Occupational Segregation in U.S. Municipal Bureaucracies, 1991-2015
| Autor: | Valerie H. Hunt, Brinck Kerr, Larra Rucker |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Public Administration Strategy and Management media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Occupational segregation Commission 0506 political science Management of Technology and Innovation Political science 0502 economics and business 050602 political science & public administration Demographic economics Bureaucracy Equal employment opportunity 050203 business & management media_common |
| Zdroj: | Public Personnel Management. 49:171-192 |
| ISSN: | 1945-7421 0091-0260 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0091026019854467 |
| Popis: | Drawing upon 24 years (1991-2015) of U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission data, we ask whether sex-based occupational segregation among professional and administrative employees in municipal bureaucracies is related to agency policy missions. We evaluate occupational segregation using two different benchmarks, 30% women and 50% women. At the 30% threshold in distributive and regulatory agencies, our findings suggest erosion of glass walls among professional workforces, but widespread occupational segregation among administrative workforces. At the 50% benchmark, we find a different story. Most cities reach or exceed gender parity in redistributive agencies; however, we observe widespread occupational segregation among administrative and professional workforces in distributive and regulatory agencies. Patterns of sex-based occupational segregation are related to agency policy missions. Analyses of glass walls should not be based on a single benchmark. One option is to supplement evaluations using the customary 30% threshold with evaluations employing a threshold of 50%, or true gender parity. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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