Are there sex differences in the utilization of educational capital among college-educated workers?

Social Science Research

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 535-571

  Shauman, Kimberlee A ^a  

^a Department of Sociology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Education; Occupational segregation; School to work transition; Sex differences; Sex stratification

Indexed keywords

EID: 70249121836     PISSN: 0049089X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2009.02.004     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Bae Y., Choy S., Geddes C., Sable J., and Snyder T. Trends in Educational Equity for Girls and Women (2000), U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Washington, DC
2. Bianchi S.M. Changing economic roles of women and men. In: Farley R. (Ed). State of the Union: America in the 1990s. Vol. 1: Economic Trends (1995), Russell Sage Foundation, New York
3. Boese, Ron, Lewis, Phil, Frugoli, Pam, Litwin, Karen, 2001. Summary of O*NET 4.0 Content Model and Database. National Center for O*NET Development, Raleigh, NC.
4. Brown C., and Corcoran M. Sex-based differences in school content and the male-female wage gap. Journal of Labor Economics 15 (1997) 431-465
5. Davis J.A. Undergraduate Career Decisions (1965), Aldine, New York
6. Daymont T.N., and Andrisani P.J. Job preferences, college major, and the gender gap in earnings. The Journal of Human Resources 19 (1984) 408-428
7. DeLeire T., and Levy H. Worker sorting and the risk of death on the job. Journal of Labor Economics 22 (2004) 925-953
8. England P., and Li S. Desegregation stalled: the changing gender composition of college majors, 1971-2002. Gender and Society 20 (2006) 657-677
9. Gerhart B. Gender differences in current and starting salaries: the role of performance, college major, and job title. Industrial and Labor Relations Review 43 (1990) 418-433
10. Hauser R.M., and Warren J.R. Socioeconomic indexes for occupations: a review, update, and critique. In: Raftery A.E. (Ed). Sociological Methodology (1997), Blackwell, Cambridge 177-298
11. Hoffman S.D., and Duncan G.J. Multinomial and conditional logit discrete-choice models in demography. Demography 25 (1988) 415-427
12. Jacobs J.A. Revolving Doors: Sex Segregation and Women's Careers (1989), Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA
13. Jacobs J.A. Gender and academic specialties: trends among recipients of college degrees in the 1980s. Sociology of Education 68 (1995) 81-98
14. Jacobs J.A. Gender inequality and higher education. Annual Review of Sociology 22 (1996) 153-185
15. Kerckhoff A.C. Building conceptual and empirical bridges between studies of educational and labor force careers. In: Kerckhoff A.C. (Ed). Generating Social Stratification: Toward a New Research Agenda (1996), Westview Press, Boulder, CO 37-56
16. Long J.S. Regression Models for Categorical and Limited Dependent Variables (1997), Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA
17. McFadden D. Conditional logit analysis of qualitative choice behavior. In: Zarembka P. (Ed). Frontiers in Econometrics (1974), Academic Press, New York 105-142
18. National Center for Education Statistics. Postsecondary Participation Rates by Sex and Race/Ethnicity: 1974-2003 (2005), National Center for Education Statistics, Washington, DC
19. National Science Foundation. National Survey of College Graduates, 1993 (Computer file) (1997), U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census (Producer), Washington, DC
20. National Science Foundation. Women, Minorities, Persons with Disabilities in Science, Engineering (1998), National Science Foundation, Washington, DC
21. National Science Foundation. Women, Minorities, Persons with Disabilities in Science, Engineering (2004), National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA
22. National Science Foundation, 2007. Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering: 2007, NSF 07-315. National Science Foundation, Division of Science Resource Statistics, Arlington, VA. Available from: .
23. Peng S.S., and Jaffe J. Women who enter male-dominated fields of study in higher education. American Educational Research Journal 16 (1979) 285-293
24. Polachek S.W. Sex differences in college major. Industrial and Labor Relations Review 31 (1978) 498-508
25. Powers D.A., and Xie Y. Statistical Methods for Categorical Data Analysis (2000), Academic Press, New York
26. Shauman K.A. Occupational sex segregation and the earnings of occupations: what causes the link among college-educated workers?. Social Science Research 35 (2006) 577-619
27. Spain D., and Bianchi S.M. Balancing Act: Motherhood, Marriage and Employment Among American Women (1996), Russell Sage Foundation, New York
28. Xie Y., and Shauman K.A. Women in Science: Career Processes and Outcomes (2003), Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA