What Is Occupational Segregation?

Sex segregation at work can be divided into two types: horizontal sex segregation and vertical sex segregation.

Gender segregation

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Gender segregation
Foreign name
sex segregation
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Horizontal isolation, vertical isolation
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Men and women at work
Sex segregation at work can be divided into two types: horizontal sex segregation and vertical sex segregation.
Horizontal isolation refers to the difficulty for women to enter certain jobs that are considered "male," such as occupations represented by manual labor: drivers, porters, and jobs with a high social reputation and emphasis on professionalism, such as doctors, Lawyer, university professor. Some jobs are considered "female jobs", which are usually similar to domestic work or jobs that emphasize feminine femininity, good care, and nursing characteristics, such as housekeeping services, nurses, kindergarten teachers, and most services.
Vertical isolation refers to the fact that men and women are in the same industry. Men usually have higher positions and salaries, while women are in lower positions that require less technology, have lower salaries and are not easily promoted. In the same job at the same time, employers often cause men and women to be paid differently for equal work in some ways. For example, for women who work part-time rather than full-time, or with some sub-division of work content or different names to declare that the work of men and women is not the same, so the treatment is different.

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