Running Ahead or Running in Place? Educational Expansion and Gender Inequality in the Labor Market

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• 作者：Haya Stier ; Efrat Herzberg-Druker
• 关键词：Gender inequality ; Occupations ; Professions ; Wages ; Educational expansion ; Employment
• 刊名：Social Indicators Research
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：130
• 期：3
• 页码：1187-1206
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• 刊物类别：Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
• 刊物主题：Sociology, general; Quality of Life Research; Microeconomics; Public Health; Human Geography; Quality of Life Research;
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-0921
• 卷排序：130

文摘

This study focuses on gender inequality in access to professional and managerial jobs and in pay among highly educated workers in Israel. Like many other Western countries, Israel has experienced a dramatic rise in higher education since the early 1990s, and more so for women than for men. In light of this change, the study asks whether women’s opportunities in the labor market have improved or rather deteriorated in access to professional and managerial jobs and in pay. The findings show that, in general, women with academic education improved their market position vis-à-vis men. They have entered formerly male-dominated jobs and managed to reduce some of the gaps in access to the better-paying professions. There is also a general decline in the gender pay gap. However, women still lag behind men, especially in the highly-paid “classic” professions. Inequality is lowest in non-professional jobs, where more women than men are employed and for which the workers are overeducated.