in female dominated occupations are lower than those in male dominated professions. This is one of the reasons for the … gender pay gap. However, there are also large differences in earnings between men and women within occupations. These …

In the last four decades, women have made major inroads into occupations previously dominated by men. This paper … remain in, or move into, feminizing occupations? We analzye this question over the 1990s and 2000s in Britain, Germany and … occupations holding less than 50 percent of women from those with more than 60 percent of women. Only moving into the latter …

differed between these occupations. A model of sectoral shift is developed in which workers choose occupations and therefore …

I provide evidence that task use at work by men and women in the same occupations is significantly different. The … completely account for the observed differences. The difference is also not accounted for by the type of occupations in which … titles. However, controlling for both occupations and task use in an wage equation accounts for the entirety of the within …