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| Author: | Magnusson, C. |
| Title: | Gender, occupational prestige, and wages: A test of devaluation theory |
| Journal: | European sociological review
2009 : FEB, VOL. 25:1, p. 87-101 |
| Index terms: | theories devaluation gender occupational status pay Scandinavia Nordic countries Sweden |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | According to the devaluation theory's (henceforth as: dvl-thr.) basic assumption, women are culturally devalued in society. By analyzing if the female share of an occupation (as: occp.) or feminine work is negatively associated with occp. prestige (here as: o-p.), dvl-thr. may be more directly tested than by using wages as the outcome variable. Moreover, it is examined whether differences in o-p. account for part of the pay effect of sex composition, and whether women, relative to men, receive lower wage rewards for attained prestige. Using analyzes on Swedish data, it is shown that the association btw. the proportion females in an occp. and o-p. is non-linear. Mixed occps. (with 41-60 percentage of females) have the highest prestige. Further, work generally done by women, care work, does not have lower prestige than other tasks. The dvl-thr. is not supported based on these findings. In addition, the analysis also shows that women receive lower wage returns than do men to attained o-p. |
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