Gender segregation and college majors
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This project has two dimensions: One aspect of the dissertation is to examine the role of education — specifically, the field of study — in generating gender segregation in occupations. The second goal is to see how college majors account for the gender gap in the distribution of wages within an occupation. The key questions that come up in the study are: To what extent can occupational sex-segregation be explained by field-of-study segregation (among occupations that require college degrees)? To what extent does field of study play out the same way for women and men? Are women with female-typed college majors more likely than men in those same majors to end up in female-typed occupations? The first paper of this three-paper dissertation examines whether the college major has a significant role in determining sex-segregation in occupations, more than the combined roles of gender, race and other demographic variables. The second paper shows that the choice of college major has a significant effect in predicting women's wage disadvantage in comparison to men. Particularly, married women are more disadvantaged than single or divorced women. For highly educated single or divorced women, we show that the wage gap vanishes completely. In the third paper, it is established using a conjoint survey experiment that the actual gender of the candidate matters much less than the gender-type of the candidate's college major in hiring decisions.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2023; ©2023 |
| Publication date | 2023; 2023 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Chatterjee, Esha, (Researcher in sociology) |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Grusky, David B |
| Thesis advisor | Grusky, David B |
| Thesis advisor | Granovetter, Mark S |
| Thesis advisor | Pedulla, David S, 1982- |
| Degree committee member | Granovetter, Mark S |
| Degree committee member | Pedulla, David S, 1982- |
| Associated with | Stanford University, School of Humanities and Sciences |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Sociology |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Esha Chatterjee. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Sociology. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2023. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/fh867qj3310 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2023 by Esha Chatterjee
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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