Revisiting the glass escalator: The case of gender segregation in a female dominated occupation

Social Problems

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 271-299

  Snyder, Karrie Ann ^a   Green, Adam Isaiah ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Career choices; Gender; Masculinity; Occupational sex segregation; Work

Indexed keywords

EID: 43149126542     PISSN: 00377791     EISSN: 15338533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/sp.2008.55.2.271     Document Type: Article

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