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Occupational Profiles

In: Women’s Occupational Mobility

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  • Shirley Dex

    (University of Keele)

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We can now begin to focus on the patterns of women’s occupations over time. How do women move between jobs over their lifetimes; if they do? As indicated earlier, most of the existing studies have examined women’s location in the occupational structure through cross-sectional information; that is using data on their current occupations. A cross-sectional picture of an occupational distribution will give an accurate picture of women’s positions if those positions never change. If women’s occupations change over their lifetime, however, the cross-sectional picture will not accurately reflect their lifetime occupational status. The occupational histories of women contained in the Women and Employment Survey (WES) provides the first extensive large scale British data through which to begin to tackle unanswered questions about the nature of women’s careers and occupational changes over their lifetime.1

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  • Shirley Dex, 1987. "Occupational Profiles," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Women’s Occupational Mobility, chapter 3, pages 28-65, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-18572-6_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-18572-6_3
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