Final Flashcards
Actual dominance of one sex in a particular occupation or the higher share of one sex relative to the expected share. Employers will discriminate and therefore not hire women.
Occupational Sex Segregation
refers to the degree of fulfillment or significance that individuals derive from their work.
“Job Meaning”
the ability of individuals to adapt and adjust their career paths to changing circumstances, opportunities, and personal preferences.
Structural Flexibility
refers to the total number of people who are either employed or actively seeking employment within a certain population or economy.
Labor Force
specifically refers to the proportion of the working-age population who are either employed or actively seeking employment.
Labor Force Participation
commonly used in labor market analyses, economic research, and policy discussions to understand wage trends, income inequality, and the purchasing power of workers.
Median Hourly Wages
the act of providing financial support for a household or family. often used to describe different roles within a family or household regarding who earns the majority or entirety of the income.
Breadwinning
a workplace environment where masculine traits, behaviors, and norms are highly valued and often reinforced through competition and dominance. aggressiveness, decisiveness, and competitiveness, are prioritized and rewarded, while traits perceived as feminine, such as empathy, collaboration, and emotional expression, may be devalued or marginalized.
Masculinity -contest
a branch of economics that focuses on the economic behavior and decision-making processes within households or families. It examines how individuals within a household allocate resources, make consumption and saving decisions, and engage in labor market activities to maximize their well-being and achieve their economic goals.
Household Econ Theory
refers to the process by which individuals, groups, or institutions develop expertise and focus their efforts on particular tasks, roles, or areas of knowledge within a society.
Specialization
refers to the principle that individuals, groups, or societies can benefit from specializing in the production of goods or services in which they have a lower opportunity cost relative to others. it is often used to analyze patterns of specialization, division of labor, and social organization within societies.
Comparative Advantage
Nursing, teaching, social work, office assistant, HR
Female dominated careers
IT, engineering, finance, business
Male dominated careers
the process by which individuals make career choices that align with their personal values, interests, identity, and sense of self-expression.
Self-expressive career decision-making
individuals develop their sense of self through social interactions and perceptions of how others view them. The three dimensions are: the imagined appearance of ourselves to others, the imagined judgment of others, the feelings about ourselves that develop as a result.
Three dimensions of self conception