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Gender and Perceptions of Occupational Prestige

Author(s) -

Donna Crawley

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

sage open

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.357

H-Index - 32

ISSN - 2158-2440

DOI - 10.1177/2158244013518923

Subject(s) - salary , prestige , occupational prestige , psychology , race (biology) , perception , social psychology , value (mathematics) , demography , gender studies , sociology , socioeconomic status , political science , population , philosophy , linguistics , neuroscience , law , machine learning , computer science

Two studies compared perceptions of status for occupations based onthe gender and race of the workers. In total, 387 college students participated in thisresearch. Across studies, results indicated that participants did not differentiallyvalue occupations based on the gender or race of the workers in terms of prestigeratings or salary estimates. However, participants judged that occupations required moreeducation when described as having predominantly male workers rather than femaleworkers. In addition, the participants showed different levels of interest in thepositions depending on the occupational gender. These results are compared with similarstudies conducted 20 years ago, in which participants showed more overt forms ofdevaluing occupations associated with women

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