Skagerberg, Elin, Wright, Daniel B. and Eaton, Aisa A. (2014) Occupational segregation and psychological gender differences: How empathizing and systemizing help explain the distribution of men and women into (some) occupations. Journal of Research in Personality . ISSN 0092-6566

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Abstract

The proportion of men and women workers varies among occupation types. There are several factors that may contribute to occupational segregation by gender. Using a large U.S. sample (n = 2149), we examine the extent to which occupational segregation can be attributed to gender differences in empathizing and systematizing: Psychological dimensions which theorists argue represent meaningful differences between men and women. Of the eight occupational categories for which employee gender and occupation type were associated at the p < .01 level, four of these – Construction, Professional/Scientific/Technical fields, Management, and Education – were partially mediated by systemizing and/or empathizing scores, which typically accounted for 10–20% of the observed gender differences. For other areas, like Health, gender differences were not mediated by either measure.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Available online 19 June 2014
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Some, Occupational Segregation, Gender, Work, Systemizing, Empathizing, Personality
Subjects:	Sex Psychology > Males/Men Management & Economics > Social Psychology of Work Sex Psychology > Females/Women
Department/People:	Special Units
URI:	https://repository.tavistockandportman.ac.uk/id/eprint/866

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