This study of interplant sex segregation in the U.S. manufacturing industry improves on previous work by using more … detailed information on the characteristics of both workers and firms and adopting an improved measure of segregation. The data … findings. First, interplant sex segregation in the U.S. manufacturing industry is substantial, particularly among blue …

Current Population Survey (CPS) It shows that the extent of gender segregation by both industry and occupation is … appropriate techniques in the presence of such strong gender segregation . To secure even greater precision we repeat the matching …

We extend the conventional framework for measuring segregation to consider stratification of occupations by gender, i … indices. Our empirical analysis using this approach shows that the decline over time in occupational gender segregation in the … workers' characteristics, showing that gender differences cannot explain the levels of segregation/stratification in any year …