This paper seeks to investigate the occupational segregation of white women in the U.S. at the local labor market level …, exploring whether the segregation of this group is a homogeneous phenomenon across the country or there are important …) and calculate an index - mainly the index of dissimilarity - for each of these comparisons, this paper use segregation …

gender segregation and stratification, with women and men entering occupations previously dominated by the other gender … process. Distinct worker characteristics by gender, such as education, location, or age, cannot explain existing segregation … gender. While some women (mostly black and Coloured) overwhelmingly fill low-paying jobs, others (mostly white and Indian …

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 …

This study analyzes the evolution of gender-based educational and occupational segregation, from 1999 to 2016, for four … segregation in explaining occupational segregation. There are four major findings. First, aggregate gender–based educational and … occupational segregation have remained almost constant over time at approximately 7.5 percent and 18.5 percent, respectively. This …