Occupational segregation and psychological gender differences: : How empathizing and systemizing help explain the distribution of men and women into (some) occupations

• Autores: Daniel B. Wright, Asia A. Eaton, Elin Skagerberg
• Localización: Journal of Research in Personality, ISSN-e 1095-7251, Vol. 54, Nº. 1, 2015, págs. 30-39
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • 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.